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- ↑ Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding (short-film about constructive alignment)
- ↑ Biggs, John B. (2013). Changing universities : a memoir about academe in different places and times. [Hawthorn East, Victoria]. ISBN 978-0-9870865-9-4. OCLC 857761022.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Biggs, John Burville (1962). The psychological relationship between cognitive and affective factors in arithmetical performance. london.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of London. OCLC 1006277297. Archived from the original on 7 July 2020. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
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- ↑ "BIGGS, John Burville". Australian Honours Search Facility, Dept of Prime Minister & Cabinet. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 9 June 2018.
- ↑ "Award Winners: 2021 AAUT Awards" (PDF). Universities Australia. 23 February 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
- ↑ Biggs, J. B. (2003). The Girl in the Golden House. Pandanus Books. ISBN 1-74076-033-6
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- ↑ Biggs, John (2011). Tasmania Over Five Generations: Return to Van Diemen's Land? Forty Degrees South.
- ↑ Biggs, J.B. (2012) Towards Forgiveness: Sino-Tasmanian Stories from Two Islands Ginninderra Press ISBN 978-1-74027-721-1
- ↑ Biggs, John. (2013) From Ashes to Ashes Interactive Publications ISBN 978-1-922120-50-2
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