Current Institution: Macquarie University
Fellowship: OLT National Teaching Fellowship at Macquarie University
Fellowship Duration: 2012 - 2013
Distance learning needs to be treated in parity with regular face-to-face teaching, and to achieve the same outcomes and standards. Despite this, expertise in delivering the teaching and applying standards to this different mode is far less advanced.
The fellowship will develop standards for distance learning. The standards will be evaluated for use in self-assessment and collegial peer review. The potential of the standards for intra-institutional benchmarking will also be assessed. The standards will be explicitly and deliberately aligned with the TEQSA Standards Framework and sensitive to the specific context of distance learning. The fellowship will employ a collaborative approach: both the standards and the peer review process will be tested by colleagues from participating universities. The fellowship will conduct self-assessment of Macquarie University against the standards, provide an analysis of the potential for intra-institutional benchmarking, and generate protocols on the use of standards in collegial peer review.
Disciplines: Cross-disciplinary
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.