The University of Queensland has demonstrated that student learning is a priority in a variety of ways. The primary goal is to fully develop, rigorously test int eh field, thoroughly evaluate and disseminate widely a new design framework. The project will involve the design, demonstration and evaluation of three distinct types of learning environment using this unified approach that have been pioneered at the University. At the completion of this project, there will be at least three new learning spaces - one library, one collaborative learning centre and one advanced concept teaching space. These spaces will embody new ways of learning, new ways to use space and next generation technology. They will be exemplars at the very leading edge of world-wide learning practice. Teh major transferable outcome of the project will be the new design framework based on the pedagogy-space-technology nexus.
Resource Library
The Resource Library contains a collection of higher education learning and teaching materials flowing from projects funded by the Commonwealth of Australia including those from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.
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The GREEN (Growing, Reflecting, Enabling, Engaging, Networking) Report: The Development of Leadership Capacity in Higher Education
Designing Next Generation Places of Learning: Collaboration at the Pedagogy-Space-Technology Nexus
Retrofitting University Learning Spaces
The project addresses the question: How do we redevelop original university classroom spaces to support new ways to enable and facilitate student learning in a cost effective manner? The project derived a set of principles to help guide the redevelopment of existing spaces and provides. a series of theoretical and practical resources, available via the project website.
Making Research Skill Development Explicit in Coursework: Five Universities' Adaptation of a Model to Numerous Disciplines
The Teaching-Research Nexus: A Guide for Academics and Policy-makers in Higher Education
This excellent resource provides a summary of current thinking on the Teaching-Research Nexus (TRN) for academics, university staff, policy makers and students. The benefits of the TRN for students is presented and is supported with a large number of links to examples of TRN practice by discipline and year levels which should prove to be particularly useful for academics designing or revising existing courses or units. Links to strategy and policy making are also included. The site provides a framework for developing curricula that links teaching and research and is a useful collection of curriculum design ideas for academics. Nineteen concrete examples are presented. The resource may be used to aid the development or review of policies that promote (or hinder) the teaching-research nexus. There are materials supporting all levels of policy makers including government policy makers, those developing university wide policies at Deputy Vice-Chancellor level, and other policy leaders such as heads of departments or schools. In a short commentary the authors give advice to those academics early in their career or wanting to build their career. The main focus is on the advantages of being conscious of the RTN in their work as an academic. This is very much a personal view from the authors and contains only one reference.
ePortfolio Use by University Students in Australia: Developing a Sustainable Community of Practice (Stage Two)
This report documents Stage Two of the Australian ePortfolio Project (AeP2), which explored the current scope of national and international ePortfolio communities of practice in order to identify the factors that have contributed to their success and sustainability. A toolkit of six concept guides, targeted at the various stakeholders involved in ePortfolio use and providing information on managing privacy, is provided in Appendix 1. The project website provides additional resources.
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Stage One report on the Australian ePortfolio Project was published in 2008 and can be found at http://www.olt.gov.au/resource-eportfolio-use-qut-2008.
A Supplementary Report on the Australian ePortfolio Project was published in 2010 and can be found at http://www.olt.gov.au/resource-aep-final-report-2010.
Learning and Teaching for Interprofessional Practice, Australia (L-TIPP, Aus): Developing Interprofessional Learning and Practice Capabilities within the Australian Health Workforce - A Proposal for Building Capacity within the Higher Education Sector
Computer Aided Feedback & Assessment System
Development and Evaluation of Resources to Enhance Skills in Higher Degree Research Supervision in a Cross-Cultural Context
This project addressed postgraduate research supervision in a cross-cultural context from the point of view of both supervisor and candidate, and from the perspective of what institutions can do to support candidates and supervisors. Based on the research data, five different types of resources were developed: ten short video clips with supporting transcripts; 17 written scenarios with key ideas and suggested discussion questions; three documents outlining strategies; a checklist to determine departmental and faculty readiness; and an annotated bibliography with over 100 entries. Resources may be found on the project website and are freely available for use by both candidates and supervisors.
Creating Accessible Teaching and Support (CATS)
Developing and Disseminating Team Skills Capacities Using Interactive Online Tools for Team Formation, Learning, Assessment and Mentoring
'Seeing' Networks: Visualising and Evaluating Student Learning Networks
Subject Coordinators: Leading Professional Development for Sessional Staff
Building Course Team Capacity to Enhance Graduate Employability
The National Graduate Attributes Project: Integration and Assessment of Graduate Attributes in Curriculum
Introductory Commentary
- The National Graduate Attributes Project Issues papers
- Role of Graduate Attributes in Emerging Institutional Quality Assurance Processes video
- Graduate attributes statements database
The National Graduate Attributes Project Issues papers: http://www.itl.usyd.edu.au/projects/nationalgap/resources/discussionpapers.htm
Role of Graduate Attributes in Emerging Institutional Quality Assurance Processes video: http://www.itl.usyd.edu.au/projects/nationalgap/resources/videos.htm
Graduate attributes statements database: http://www.itl.usyd.edu.au/projects/nationalgap/resources/gamap/introduction.htm
This is one of the outcomes of the National GAP (Graduate Attributes Project), a national scoping study of Australian universities' recent activities in relation to the development of graduate attributes. It is an aggregation of de-identified university graduate attributes statements, gathered in 2007-08. The statements were sorted into groups describing similar graduate attributes. They are presented as 'Enabling' level attributes (broader dispositions: scholarship, global citizenship, life-long learning) and 'Translation' level (more discrete, discipline-specific attributes: research and enquiry; information literacy; personal and intellectual autonomy; ethical, social and professional understanding and communication).
The boundaries between categories are artificial and some relate to more than one category.
This web resource includes a clickable visual map showing these eight subcategories. Links take the user to an aggregation of university statements of attributes -- for example, when universities include an attribute related to critical thinking, here are examples of how they phrase that statement. Even though these were gathered in 2007-08, they are unlikely to date -- the database shows the similarities and differences in statements.
This is a useful resource for those considering reviewing their attributes. It also shows the broad emphases in attributes across the sector.
Creating Cultural Empathy and Challenging Attitudes Through Indigenous Narratives
The project collected stories from Indigenous people about their experiences with health care services to enhance relationships and the development of lasting empathy. A national library of multi-media narratives of Indigenous experiences was establised on the project website and is a powerful resource catering for different learning and teaching styles and addresses curriculum outcomes for a number of health disciplines.
Authentic Assessment in Practice Settings: a Participatory Design Approach
Addressing Cultural Diversity in Health Ethics Education
Hunters and Gatherers: Strategies for Curriculum Mapping and Data Collection for Assuring Learning
Social, Communicative and Interpersonal Leadership in the Context of Peer Review
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