30 years of teaching the teacher: What are the long term-impacts of Graduate Certificates in Higher Education within Australia and New Zealand? – CAULLT Academic Development Day
For three decades, Australian and New Zealand institutions have invested substantial funds and staff resources in Graduate Certificates in Higher Education (GCHE), recognising their potential to enhance teaching quality across the sector. Yet a critical question remains: what are the long-term impacts of these programs on teacher knowledge, practice, and ultimately, student outcomes? CAULLT has […]
Recognising Excellence in Educational Leadership – HERDSA CAULLT Award Applications Open
Exceptional educational leaders often work behind the scenes, yet their achievements deserve recognition. Applications are now open for the CAULLT/HERDSA Award for Outstanding Leadership in Research and Development in Higher Education, honouring those who have made a transformative impact in higher education. Whether you have led innovative initiatives, fostered institutional change, built strategic partnerships, championed inclusion, […]
2025 CAULLT Academic Development Awards
There’s still time to nominate your outstanding academic development work for the 2025 CAULLT Academic Development Awards. Whether you’re an experienced academic developer or new to the field, if your work demonstrates principles of good learning and teaching practice, innovation, and impact, we encourage you to apply. Why apply? How to apply Only staff from CAULLT member […]
Applications Now Open for the 2025 CAULLT Academic Development Awards
Nominate your outstanding academic development practices for recognition at the CAULLT celebration of learning and teaching excellence across our member institutions. The CAULLT Academic Development Awards celebrate innovative practitioners who are transforming higher education through exceptional academic development initiatives. This prestigious award recognises staff from CAULLT member universities whose work demonstrates clear principles of good […]
Re)Launch of the HERDSA Academic Development SIG
Nominate your outstanding academic development practices for recognition at the CAULLT celebration of learning and Published by Christa Jacenyik-Trawöger on the 18 July 2025 Do you work in Academic Development and want to connect with peers? Join the (Re)Launch of the HERDSA Academic Development SIG 08 August 2025 13:00–14:00 AEST (Sydney time) Via Zoom (link […]
Developing a Technology Enabled Mentoring (TEM) framework and short course for the Australasian HE community
Start date: August 2022 Completion date: February 2025 Abstract This project will investigate Technology Enabled Mentoring (TEM), informed by the lived experiences of academics who engaged in TEM due to geographical challenges as well as those who had to transition to online mentoring during COVID-19, as well as the experiences of the project team. […]
Learning and Teaching Professional Learning Survey of Australian and New Zealand Universities 2024
Project Overview This project revisits and updates the CAULLT 2019 environmental scan of professional learning activities undertaken by Australian Universities. The survey explored the governance of professional learning for Teaching and Learning; staffing; recognition and reward of professional learning; measurement and targets for teaching quality; and details of the learning and teaching development programs being […]
Leading scholarly learning and teaching with a MOOC
Start date: July 2022 Completion date: March 2023 Abstract The original Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching (CAUT) MOOC is now being offered for its fifth year, under the auspices of CAULLT, and volunteer academic co-leads. The successful MOOC sees 800-1000 registrations each semester, the majority from Australasia. It is being reviewed as part of a […]
Investigating how leaders in L&T units across Australian regional universities employ SET to ensure fairness and optimise their L&T benefit
Start date: August 2022 Completion date: February 2023 Abstract Student Evaluations of Courses and Teaching (SET) are often employed as a proxy for teaching and course quality in universities despite their correlation with the teaching academic’s demographics and issues unrelated to course or academic performance. Additionally, whilst it is acknowledged that specific factors impact academic […]
Academic Archetypes
Start date: May 2020 Completion date: November 2022 Abstract The project will establish the first empirically derived archetypes of academics working in Australian universities. Archetypes can help academic development units in Australia’s universities to determine priorities and goals without bias or assumptions. The archetypes can be used to inform the design and delivery of resources, […]