Scholarship of tertiary teaching and learning summit

The Learning and Teaching Support Unit (LTSU) hosted a Summit on the topic of the Scholarship of Tertiary Teaching and Learning at USQ on 2 November, 2009.

The purpose of this Summit was to review the importance of SoTTL to the development of learning and teaching at USQ, and to seek ways to maximise outcomes from the USQ 2010 Year of Research.

The aim was to engage the expertise of USQ colleagues in the exploration of:

• essential components of SoTTL;
• motivations and barriers to SoTTL at USQ; and
• realistic strategies and actions that each participant’s office, centre, or faculty could adopt to promote and support SoTTL at USQ and the scholarship potential of USQ staff

The entire Summit was recorded.  Each of the individual events are described below. 

Presentations

• Welcome by Professor Lynne Hunt and keynote presentation by Emeritus Professor Fred Lockwood
• See presentation** (41:44 mins)
• "View from the trenches: results of USQ action research" - a presentation by Dr R Todd Hartle of where USQ has come from and what is needed to move forward in the area of SoTTL at USQ.
• See presentation** (42:07 mins)
• See Power Point presentation (PDF* 652kb)
  

• Question and answer session with Emeritus Professor Fred Lockwood, Professor Lynne Hunt and Professor Frank Bullen on the scholarship of tertiary teaching and learning at USQ
• See the discussion** (49:17 mins)
  

• Lyn Brodie presents the experiences of leading the Engineering Education Research Group in performing SoTTL
• See presentation** (31:56 mins)
• See Power Point presentation (PDF* 182kb)
• Dr Birgit Loch presents the experiences of an individual academic whose primary research focus is in performing SoTTL
• See presentation** (32:53 mins)
• See Power Point presentation (PDF* 158kb)
• Dr Phil Griffiths presents the experiences of an individual academic whose primary research focus is in performing SoTTL
• See presentation** (34:26 mins)

• Dr R Todd Hartle presents a series of questions on the possible SoTTL support directions of USQ to the panel of Emeritus Professor Fred Lockwood, Professor Lynne Hunt and Professor Frank Bullen
• See the discussion** (15:42 mins)
• Emeritus Professor Fred Lockwood wraps up the SoTTL Summit Meeting by focusing on several key points from each part of the day
• See presentation** (8:47 mins)

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