Developing and rewarding advanced teaching expertise in higher education - a different approach
Farley, Alan and Barton, Siew Mee 2006, Developing and rewarding advanced teaching expertise in higher education - a different approach, in Ed-Media 2006 : World conference on educational multimedia, hypermedia & telecommunications: proceedings of Ed-Media 2006, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, Norfolk, Va., pp. 1824-1829.
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Developing and rewarding advanced teaching expertise in higher education - a different approach
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications
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1824
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1829
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Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education
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Norfolk, Va.
Summary
The Australian university sector is undergoing a major change, with a significant increase in the emphasis on quality teaching and learning. This change is being driven by the national government. The paper asks if the correct response to this change of emphasis should be a change in the attitude to the appropriate mix of research and teaching skills within an institution, and within individual staff of the institution. The same question could be asked of how to better develop teaching expertise in many higher education sectors globally. It is proposed that to create excellent teaching and learning within an institution may better be achieved by allowing staff to become experts in a narrow field of teaching rather than generalists across the basics of teaching. The creation of a Community of Experts in teaching parallels the process of creating a Community of Experts in Research and can bring similar benefits in the teaching area to what it does in the research area.
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