The Good Practice Guides serve as a quick reference guide for those undertaking curriculum design, renewal, review, and evaluation activities. Although developed for use within occupational therapy, the key principles described in the Guides have relevance for other health professions and curriculum development and renewal more broadly. Cases accompany many of these Good Practice Guides.
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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Engineering Thresholds: an Approach to Curriculum Renewal
The University of Western Australia
2012
Good practice for safeguarding student learning engagement in higher education institutions
Queensland University of Technology
2012
Auckland University of Technology (NZ), Charles Sturt University, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, RMIT University, University of New England, University of South Australia
Rethinking assessment in the participatory digital world – Assessment 2.0
The University of Adelaide
2011
Building capacity among emerging occupational therapy academic leaders in curriculum renewal and evaluation at UQ and nationally
The University of Queensland
2011
A Review of the Dissemination Strategies used by Projects Funded by the ALTC Grants Scheme
The University of Queensland
2011
This project investigated the effectiveness of dissemination for ALTC Grants Scheme projects in the period 2006 to 2009. The Final Report outlines a new approach to dissemination that aims to increase opportunities for achieving productive change in learning and teaching and a new dissemination framework is presented.
The practitioner focused D-Cubed Guide explores the nature and purpose of dissemination, persents a range of effective dissemination activities, and provides examples of good practice. Resources from the Guide are also presented separately.
University of Sunshine Coast
D-Cubed Dissemination Project InDesign Resources
The University of Queensland
2011
The following InDesign files are provided to allow project teams modify the Quick Guides and other resources produced by the project D-Cubed: A Review of Dissemination Strategies used by Projects Funded by the ALTC Grants Scheme . The InDesign program and expertise in using this application is required. The INDD file and associated Font and Links folders are provided in the .zip file.
A guide to supervision in social work field education
Charles Sturt University
2011
This guide, based on the masters level online program, is designed for those wanting to learn about the theory and practice of supervising social work students during their field education placement. Four topics cover the nature of social work field education, standards and roles, educational foundations, and phases of student supervision. Questions, exercises and reading reflection segments support the text and other online documents.
Australian Association of Social Workers, Australian Catholic University, Flinders University, NSW Department of Community Services, The University of Newcastle, The University of Sydney, University of Western Sydney, Victoria University
Zen and the art of transdisciplinary postgraduate studies: Ideas for good practice
University of Technology, Sydney
2009
This document is one of the outcomes resulting from a project focused on developing high quality outcomes and quality evaluation processes in transdisciplinary/interdisciplinary research for use by students and supervisors. Experienced supervisors and students participated in workshop discussions on transdisciplinary/interdisciplinary research. Research literature on effective supervision was also examined.
The project identified seven criteria to evaluate quality transdisciplinary/interdisciplinary research outcomes. This resource presents practical ideas to support quality research supervision. The intended reader is the research supervisor aiming to guide student research development. Students could also work from the ideas directly.
Ideas for Practice presents 48 ideas or tools aligned into seven sections: Building Supervision Relationships; Positioning Yourself; Deepening Reflection; Engaging with Literature; Increasing External/Critical Engagement; Clarifying Research Question/ Research Focus; Distilling & Communicating Your Claims; and Structuring a Coherent Argument. The discussion relates each of the ideas to the quality criteria for transciplinary/interdisciplinary research study.
Every idea is presented on a single page with very simple statements addressing the same key points: What's the big idea; Why is this such a good idea; Which criteria does this address; When might this be useful; What would it take to make this work; What resources might help. The ideas range from very specific, eg, Elevator Pitches (p. 49) to more general, eg, Write as a Student-Supervisor Team (p. 5). However, general ideas provide specific guidance on implementation. As Cynthia Mitchell notes, the document can be read from cover to cover or dipped into for ideas on specific issues.
This resource can constitute a standalone professional development resource for supervisors to work through with their students. While suitable for experienced supervisors, it is likely to be of particular value to new supervisors looking for advice to assist their students.
A very useful summary of activities to enhance student completion of quality research work in a timely manner is provided. While some aspects are specifically tied to transciplinary/interdisciplinary research studies, the ideas have generic applicability. The author also asks for feedback on the usefulness of the ideas and additional suggestions for resources or modifications.
Academic leadership development within the university sector by dissemination of a web-based 360° feedback process and related professional development workshops: Facilitator Guide
University of South Australia
2011
The Facilitator Guide focuses on the processes used by those developing academic leadership programs and includes information about conducting a 360° survey feedback process, conducting leadership workshops, embedding academic leadership within a university, developing Personal Action Plans, and issues that may be encountered. The Guide draws upon information developed in the projects, 'Improving the Leadership Capability of Academic Coordinators in Postgraduate and Undergraduate Programs in Business' and 'Academic Leadership: Fundamental Building Blocks'.
Curtin University of Technology
Curriculum and pedagogic bases for effectively integrating practice-based experiences
Griffith University
2011
Flinders University, James Cook University, La Trobe University, Murdoch University, The University of Newcastle
Finding Common Ground: enhancing interaction between domestic and international students
The University of Melbourne
2010
The Final Report presents an investigation of how peer interaction can be designed and used, within the teaching and learning environment, to engage domestic and international students. A key outcome was the development of a six-dimensional conceptual frameworkwhich underpins the resources produced for the project. Potential obstacles to student interaction, from both teaching and learning perspectives, are identified. A DVD, Finding Common Ground, a student flyer, and background paper are available from the project website.
This guide describes the dimensions of the Interaction for Learning Framework: planning interaction, creating environments for interaction, supporting interaction, engaging with subject knowledge, developing reflexive processes, and fostering communities of learners. The background paper, Finding common ground: Challenges and opportunities for enhancing interaction between domestic and international students, is included in the Guide.
RMIT, VU
Building academic staff capacity for using eSimulations in professional education for experience transfer
Deakin University
2010
E-simulations are capable of immersing learners in ‘authentic’ e-learning environments, providing innovative and valid teaching and assessment that is seamlessly interwoven in the process of skill acquisition and experience transfer. The Resource Guide contributes to the development of the capacities required by educational institutions to design, develop, implement, evaluate and research the impacts of e-Simulations. The project website provides additional supporting documents and useful links.
CSU, RMIT
Supporting student peer assessment and review in large groupwork projects
University of Technology, Sydney
2009
The project’s purpose is to further the educational design and dissemination of an online tool to support and facilitate self-and-peer assessment of individual contributions in large group work projects. The online tool supports group work processes through facilitating self-and-peer assessment by providing quantitative and qualitative feedback, evaluation, reflection and review opportunities.
CUT, Griffith, QUT
Strategic leadership for institutional teaching and learning centres: developing a model for the 21st century
Deakin University
2010
Macquarie, Monash, RMIT, UNE, UoN
Good practice guide for handling complaints and appeals in Australian universities
Southern Cross University
2009
Sydney, UTS
Learning support in mathematics and statistics in Australian universities: a guide for the university sector
Queensland University of Technology
2008
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