Current Institution: Queensland University of Technology
Fellowship: OLT National Teaching Fellowship at Queensland University of Technology
Fellowship Duration: 2012 - 2013
Universities strive to shape coherent bodies of knowledge and practice which create a platform for their students to become scholars and practitioners. External industry and regulatory authority requirements impact on this simple aim and on course design. Course designers must be conversant not only with the content and skill demands of their disciplines but also address a spectrum of internal and external curriculum requirements.
The fellowship focuses on faculties and schools of education as they redevelop programs and balance the interests of their students and institutions and the higher education sector, discipline-specific professional standards, and external industry and regulatory authority requirements for course accreditation. The fellowship will track the differing but pressing demands on graduates to demonstrate their capacity to apply digital technologies to their future classroom practice. The aims are to document the curriculum redevelopment in Queensland University of Technology’s Faculty of Education, mentor leaders in three other faculties undertaking similar redevelopment, and synthesise these experiences into a theorised model and guidelines. These will provide practical, transferable advice to institutions in designing courses that satisfy contemporary agendas while maintaining institutional identity, discipline integrity and academic rigour.
Disciplines: Education
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.