Current Institution: Edith Cowan University
Fellowship: OLT National Teaching Fellowship at Edith Cowan University
Fellowship Duration: 2015 - 2017
The aim of this fellowship is to produce agreed graduate outcomes and standards to inform the development of a journalism capstone unit for use among Australian universities offering undergraduate journalism degrees and majors. It will facilitate improved collaboration with industry to ensure universities fully understand the needs of industry through close interactions with news editors. This fellowship will also seek to address the considerable differences in the structure, content and delivery of tertiary journalism degrees as identified in previous OLT projects. This variability in courses has contributed to significant differences in standards and difficulties in measuring graduate capabilities. This fellowship will work towards providing, for the first time, a series of agreed criteria and standards to guide teachers in the design and implementation of journalism courses and the implementation of a final-year journalism capstone unit which effectively demonstrates and measures required graduate capabilities.
Disciplines: Communication and Media Studies, Journalism
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.