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, […]

Towards a common, transferable Australasian Higher Education micro-credentialing framework for professional learning in teaching, learning and leadership

Start date: June 2021                            Completion date: November 2022 Abstract This project builds upon the successful CAULLT project (Investigating Teaching and Learning Frameworks and Credentialling for Professional Learning in Higher Education, Dinan-Thompson, et, al, 2019), and explores how the New Zealand micro-credentialing framework (New Zealand Qualifications Authority) could align to professional learning activities in teaching, learning […]