A resource for accounting educators
READING TIME: 6 minutesThe RMIT Accounting Educators’ Conference 2018 got off to a roaring start on Monday 19th November with a thought provoking presentation to a packed audience by Dr Simon Eassom, Executive General Manager: Member Education, CPA Australia. Simon challenged us to
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READING TIME: 2 minutesThe Talking Accounting team have just finished up at the AEC – it is one of the highlights in the teaching and learning calendar. I’ve only been going for a few years – but it always feels like “coming home”
Continue readingREADING TIME: 5 minutesI can’t believe it’s already November. I don’t know if it’s just me, but each year seems to pass by at an ever increasing pace. Many of you will be knee deep in marking, some of you may have already
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READING TIME: 9 minutesAs an innovator in accounting education, the question I get asked the most at seminars, conferences and presentations is “it sounds good, but does it work?”. In David Bond’s recent post on reading your student feedback surveys he shared some useful
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READING TIME: 4 minutesSo, you are doing some innovative things in the classroom with your accounting students – why not share these practices with others! Scholarly teaching Most universities place emphasis on scholarly teaching practices. Scholarly teaching in accounting involves: striving to provide
Continue readingREADING TIME: 3 minutesSo, we all know that accounting has a dull reputation. Nothing new there (in fact see my earlier blog ‘Accounting is dull?!’), but what if I was to tell you that anyone can learn accounting, even if they start the
Continue readingREADING TIME: 5 minutes‘Please interrupt and let me know if there is something you don’t understand’ you say to your students in class. Complete silence follows, particularly from the international students. At the end of the class you check again, ‘Are you clear
Continue readingREADING TIME: 4 minutesThe following account is a version of a speech I gave as part of the panel at the 2017 RMIT Accounting Educators Conference. The theme of the conference was ‘research quality in accounting education’ and this subject is very dear
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