Developing Excellence in Learning and Teaching through Peer Assisted teaching Scheme

2012 ALTC Teaching Fellowship

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Fellowship years: 2012 - 2014

Abstract: "The fellowship will contribute to the national discourse on standards in learning and teaching, in particular, the development of teaching excellence. It will do this through: understanding how faculties support academics whose units are perceived by students as needing critical attention; applying and adapting a Peer Assisted Teaching framework trialled at Monash University; providing leadership opportunities for previous teaching award winners with outstanding teaching skills; and developing strategies, plans and policies to assist faculties with supporting and enhancing teaching quality. The flow-on effects of this scheme will inform an understanding of what measures, indicators or evidence are required for teaching standards. The fellowship program will strengthen the quality assurance commitments in universities, as needed by the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) to protect the overall quality of the Australian higher education system"

Fellowship discipline: Australian higher education system, Engineering, ICT, Science, Technology

Fellowship website: http://www.monash.edu/pats

Fellowship Report

Professor Angela Carbone

Swinburne University of Technology

About

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.