Current Institution: Western Sydney University
Fellowship: OLT National Senior Teaching Fellowship at Western Sydney University
Fellowship Duration: 2014 - 2016
Australia benefits greatly from a national and international reputation for high academic standards and high quality universities, courses and graduates. When questions are raised in this area, they are often associated with assessment and how you are assessed defines the curriculum under which you study. Assessment has the potential to be used as a strategic tool by educators that can define the learning that will be achieved and guide students into effective approaches for study. Equally, poorly designed assessment has the potential to hinder learning and stifle curriculum innovation.
This senior fellowship will develop the capacity of the sector to ensure that the quality of graduates being produced by our universities is relevant to the rapidly changing needs of the 21st century. The fellow will consider how multiple reference points might best be used to ensure the graduate capabilities developed in different fields of education are both relevant and desirable. This work will begin with a user-tested design process at the University of Western Sydney and following this, learnings, enhanced through international benchmarking, will be used to deliver workshops across the country to be followed by a national conference on what has been learnt.
Disciplines: Assessment
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.