Visiting scholars

Professor Keith Trigwell

Professor KeithTrigwell has a PhD in chemistry, university teaching experience in chemistry and education, has had 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. He is co-president of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Higher Education Special Interest Group Coordinator for the European Associate for Research in Learning and Instruction, and in 2005 was appointed a coordinating editor of the international journal Higher Education.

Seminar - 'What is the place of research in the scholarship of teaching and learning?'

Abstract: Boyer's ideas form the basis of much of the recent development in the scholarship of teaching and learning. One of the reasons he proposed the concept of four scholarships was to enhance the status of teaching, yet in Hong Kong, and in many places in Australia, the scholarship of teaching and learning is being seen as research into teaching, with research (the scholarship of discovery) as again taking prominence. Does it matter? What are the alternatives? This presentation uses a student-focused approach to address these questions, and looks at research-led teaching and where it may be going.

View the seminar** (approx 50 mins)

Forum - 'Standards of higher quality learning'.

Assoc Professor Janet Taylor interviews Professor Keith Trigwell. After the introduction, the forum allowed for participants to discuss and raise questions about issues of standards for higher quality learning at USQ.

Listen to the interview** (approx 18 min)

Assoc Professor Janet Taylor and Professor Keith Trigwell

Interview and conversation - 'Teaching and Learning Scholarship'

As a follow up to the public lecture, Associate Professor Patrick Danaher leads the discussion with staff who have an active interest in the area of learning and teaching scholarship and research.

Listen to the interview** (aprrox 34 mins)

International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Assoc Professor Patrick Danaher and Professor Keith Trigwell
Assoc Professor Patrick Danaher and Professor Keith Trigwell

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