Current Institution: University of Queensland
Fellowship: ALTC Senior Teaching Fellowship at University of Queensland
Fellowship Duration: 2007 - 2010
The affective dimension of the student learning experience is an important component in academic success but is rarely examined within the higher education context, particularly in large class settings.
Given this gap, this Fellowship is to:
1. Investigate affective aspects of learning in large classes through student reflective writing.
2. Explore the relationship between discipline-specific beliefs and affective response in large classes.
3. Develop tools to gather and analyse data for this study that can then also be used by lecturers in a variety of disciplines.
4. Document and disseminate how these tools can be used to ? Support pastoral care in large classes through an awareness of affective responses
? Instigate professional development of the lecturer by promoting a pedagogic resonance between their teaching and the rich dynamic feedback of student writings
Above all, this Fellowship provides the infrastructure for a research-based evaluation methodology that addresses the need to provide nurture in large classes across all disciplines.
Disciplines: Physical sciences, Technology
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.