2008 Professional Development Program

USQ Learning and Teaching Visiting Scholar - Dr Hamish Coates Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

Among his many achievements, Hamish has pioneered a system of evaluation that addresses the whole student learning journey - not just learning and teaching. He will spend time at USQ exploring student learning journey initiatives and advising on the development of USQ's evaluation processes.

Martin Dougiamas, Founder and Lead Developer of Moodle

Professor Geoff Scott, PVC University of Western Sydney  will be the special guest at the launch of the inaugural USQ Teaching Academy and conduct a public lecture during the ceremony discussing academic leadership in the context of change management in higher education. His specific areas of research and writing are in strategic change management and leadership in post-secondary and higher education; quality audit, tracking and improvement in universities; student engagement and retention; flexible learning design and delivery; and assessment of professional capability.

Professor Geoff Scott prepared the report Accessing the Student Voice.

International Learning and Teaching Visiting Scholar - Frank Lyons, Portsmouth University

Frank is a national Teaching and Learning Award winner in the UK. He was a pioneer of work-based learning degrees and corporate degrees. He is currently director of one of UK's Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) specialising in Foundation Degrees. His program will cover all three campuses and he will assist in the development of a number of videotaped interviews that can be used for the purposes of professional development in faculties.

Induction workshop for new academic staff 

Elizabeth Greener, Carrick Institute, Coordinator for the Resource Identification Network and Carrick Exchange.

The Carrick Exchange is being developed to produce a suite of online services specifically for learning and teaching in higher education. It is a platform that will allow people to collaborate, exchange ideas and share content around learning and teaching incorporating a range of tools including social networking. The inclusion of a repository for sharing resources is a key aspect of the Exchange which is scheduled for release to all involved in Carrick activities by mid-year.

USQ Learning and Teaching Visiting Scholar - Dr Elizabeth McDonald, Grants Program Coordinator, The Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Elizabeth will speak with staff about writing successful grant applications. 

Elizabeth Greener, Carrick Institute, Coordinator for the Resource Identification Network and Carrick Exchange.

The Carrick Exchange is being developed to produce a suite of online services specifically for learning and teaching in higher education. It is a platform that will allow people to collaborate, exchange ideas and share content around learning and teaching incorporating a range of tools including social networking. The inclusion of a repository for sharing resources is a key aspect of the Exchange which is scheduled for release to all involved in Carrick activities by mid-year.

Dr John Willison, Lecturer, Graduate Certificate in Education (Higher Education)

Carrick project - Graduating Students: Research Ready? The Research Skill Development of Coursework Students

University of Southern Queensland and University of South Africa Multimedia Benchmarking Project (PDF* 19kb)
Developing and integrating multimedia. Open distance learning courseware design and development.

Staff of the University of South Africa, a significant provider of distance education, will visit to discuss quality assurance in learning and teaching and the use of multimedia in distance education. 

See schedule (PDF* 55kb)

USQ Learning and Teaching Visiting Scholar - Dr Elizabeth McDonald, Grants Program Coordinator, The Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Elizabeth will speak with staff about writing successful grant applications.

USQ Learning and Teaching Visiting Scholar - Professor Keith Trigwell Sydney University. Keith Trigwell took up the position of Director of ITL and Professor of Higher Education in October 2006. Before this move Keith was Director of the Oxford Centre
for Excellence in Preparing for Academic Practice, a Fellow of Kellogg College, and Reader in Higher Education at the University of Oxford.

He has university teaching experience in chemistry and education, and is the recipient of seven joint ARC research grants and has published over 100 journal articles, conference papers and books, including Understanding Learning and Teaching: The experience in higher education, which is a summary of 10 years of learning/teaching research. His research work in Oxford and Sydney focuses on investigations into qualitative differences in university teaching and in the students' learning experience and on teaching-research relations and the scholarship of teaching generally.

In the last few years he has given invited addresses on teaching-learning research in Spain, Finland, USA, Canada, Belgium, Ireland, Iceland and the UK. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Iceland. He is co-president (elect) of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Higher Education Special Interest Group Co-coordinator for the European Associate for Research in Learning and
Instruction, and in 2005 was appointed a co-coordinating editor of the international journal Higher Education.

Induction workshop for new academic staff 

Australian ePortfolio Symposium, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)