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theaustralian.com.au | Original Article | by John Ross

Charles Darwin University boasts Australia’s highest proportion of interstate students, most of them learning online. The obvious next step is overseas, says Peter Kell, who heads CDU’s school of education.

“We’re looking to extend so that we develop an Asia-Pacific feel,” said Professor Kell, one of six Australian researchers to receive senior Fulbright scholarships this year.

The scholarship will fund Professor Kell to spend the first half of 2015 at the University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana), which has partnered CDU in a collaborative online Master of Education that CDU introduced this year.

Champaign-Urbana has received a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant to develop e-learning, he said. “It’s a way of looking at leading practice in the world.” Read More...