Current Institution: University of Technology Sydney
Fellowship: ALTC National Teaching Fellowship at University of Technology Sydney
Fellowship Duration: 2011 - 2013
Transforming practice by facilitating the adoption of inquiry-oriented approaches to learning is the aim of this fellowship. This will largely be achieved through applying and adapting a framework for developing sustainable innovations in inquiry-oriented learning at subject and program levels. The fellowship also seeks to understand more deeply how inquiry-oriented activities are experienced by students, and to explore and articulate what it means to facilitate inquiry-oriented learning, especially in large enrolment classes.
Relationship building will be crucial to the success of the project. The Fellow will work with Australian universities intent on transforming the student experience of undergraduate science by adapting innovations in inquiry-oriented learning to local contexts and forge new partnerships between existing national communities of practice, for example in biology and physics. These partnerships will promote the distillation of methodologies that have value beyond discipline boundaries and draw on successful national and international examples of implementing and sustaining learning by inquiry through the participation of recognised individuals and groups based in Australia and overseas.
Disciplines: Science, Enquiry-oriented learning
The Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows’ network (ALTF) was established in 2011 with support from the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. The network comprises over 100 scholars who are well placed geographically, institutionally and within their discipline communities to promote and sustain effective learning and teaching in Australian higher education, now and into the future.
The Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows’ network (ALTF) was established in 2011 with support from the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching. The network comprises over 100 scholars who are well placed geographically, institutionally and within their discipline communities to promote and sustain effective learning and teaching in Australian higher education, now and into the future.