Current Institution: Western Sydney University
Fellowship: OLT National Teaching Fellowship at University of New South Wales
Fellowship Duration: 2014 - 2017
The majority of teaching in Australian universities is undertaken by sessional staff yet these staff have been at the periphery of learning and teaching plans. This fellowship will address the issue of systematising good practice for learning and teaching with sessional staff through the implementation and embedding of national standards. It builds upon and extends the outcomes of an existing OLT project, Benchmarking Leadership and Advancement of Standards for Sessional Teaching. The diverse program of activities aims to stimulate strategic change in higher education institutions and includes: state benchmarking fora; inter-institutional benchmarking; pilots with private providers; action research projects; and scholarly dissemination of research, innovation and good practice case studies. The fellowship activities will be used as a conduit to build national and international partnerships.
Disciplines: Academic development
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.