Raymond Archee

• PhD
• Lecturer at Western Sydney University

Communicating as Professionals explains key communication concepts and effective strategies that you will use to communicate in your professional life, no matter what career you ultimately choose. It covers modern communication theory as well as essential practical skills such as active listening, verbal and non-verbal communication and negotiation...

As the higher education world transitions from lockdowns to normalcy, options for online education delivery begin to look more attractive to administrators and educators. What if Zoom and blended learning could be tweaked to enable online education to replace expensive traditional classrooms? Enter HyFlex, an older pedagogy, but now turbocharged by...

For most of 2020, the entire world was subjected to daily breaking news, television forums, health announcements and references to risk about the coronavirus. Australians have been varyingly warned, given instructions, locked down, and unlocked down. Rates of infection, death tolls, social restrictions and vaccines were major topics of conversation...

Higher education is one of the great successes of the twenty-first century. Once the province of an elite few, a university degree is now commonplace as the industrial revolution transforms into the digital age. However, the process of teaching has not changed much since Aristotle taught at the Lyceum: students still meet their teachers to listen a...

Humans possess the ability to experience life events and their accompanying emotions, to store these experiences in memory, and to create new behaviour in the future. It is often said that we learn best from our mistakes. However, life-threatening events are different. Extreme experiences can produce recurring memories that can lead to a range of s...

In Australia and many other countries, it is an ethical and legal requirement that all public sector organizations make their online information and processes available to all disabled citizens. Given the aging population and the 8-10% percent of the world who are perceptually disabled, such requirements should be a mandatory feature set of all uni...

Why are musicians some of the most unhealthy of all the performing artists compared to singers, dancers, actors, performance artists, and public speakers? Is it their temperament, their longevity, their inherently weaker bodies, or some other factor? The author’s background is as a luthier and guitar player. Using an ethnographic approach, this pap...

Emulation, imitation and mimicry are fundamental processes by which all children, adolescents and adults learn new skills, attitudes and behaviour throughout their lives. However, these basic processes seem to have been ignored or forgotten by most tertiary educational researchers. Most educationists believe that children develop through stages by...

The title of this paper echoes Nicholas Carr's (2008) article, Is Google Making Us Stupid?, which evoked heated debate around the issue of whether the Internet was having negative effects upon human concentration and learning. While this paper agrees that blended learning has the same issues as the Internet, blended learning is under the control of...

Although it is a legal requirement of all organizations to permit sensorially, cognitively, and physically disabled persons equitable access to public website information, cultural factors are seldom considered as important in the design of online information content. But many tertiary institutions have a highly diverse, multicultural student body...

The nature of higher education has changed irrevocably due sweeping changes brought about by e-learning. Such changes include the educational experience, the research process, institutional expenditure & academic work. Possibly the newest development is the personal learning environment. This paper explores the question: what might be the higher ed...

Pamphlets were an important medium of public debate in the 19th century, embracing key religious, political, social, and technological issues of the day, and providing instruction on a range of skills and tasks. They remain a valuable primary resource of relevance to a broad range of disciplines. However, pamphlets are under-utilized within researc...

Although it is a legal requirement of all organizations to permit sensorially, cognitively, and physically disabled persons equitable access to public website information, cultural factors are seldom considered as important in the design of online information content. But many tertiary institutions have a highly diverse, multicultural student body...

Although it is a legal requirement of all organizations to permit sensorially, cognitively, and physically disabled persons equitable access to public website information, cultural factors are seldom considered as important in the design of online information content. But many tertiary institutions have a highly diverse, multicultural student body...

The use of online discussion forums and real-time chat facilities have become assumed components of most online collaborative systems, but there are real differences between the two modalities. Much research has documented the nature of group tasks and social behavior in ordinary classroom contexts, but few studies have compared collaborative effor...

The advent of online computer technologies has brought with it a variety of popular tools which elude systematic study because of their relative newness or their esoteric nature. Early examples included online chat systems, bulletin board systems, instant messaging and SMS messaging, which were not initially selected as suitable targets of investig...

This paper focuses on the theoretical framework for investigating facilitation acts of the tutor and the students in problem-solving groups as reciprocally congruent. We propose to broaden the scaffolding debate in collaborative teams towards the areas of students' shared metacognitive and cognitive grounding acts. Similar tutor-supported and untut...

The purpose of this preliminary study was to structure and begin to study how collaborators working across distance perceive and use e-mail and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) to facilitate their collaborative and decision-making processes. Students from the University of Western Sydney and the University of Minnesota worked in pairs to respond to four d...

E-learning management systems (EMS) such as FirstClass, Blackboard and Moodle have become firmly entrenched at many Australian tertiary institutions as the primary method of implementing e-learning. However employing a management system comes at a cost – development difficulties, staff training issues, student boredom, and the high cost of system i...

The Statistics Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) is a key component of many university research methods courses. Teaching SPSS is especially difficult when the students have no assumed background in either mathematics or statistics. A group of 300 undergraduate Communication students were taught using a blended learning approach of traditional...

Although it is a legal requirement of all institutions/organisations to permit sensorially, cognitively, and physically disabled persons equitable access to public website information, cultural accessibility is seldom considered important in the design of online information content. Many tertiary institutions have a highly diverse, multicultural st...