Good Practice Cases

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Awards & grants

  • Funding Teaching Innovation

Benchmarking

  • Review of the undergraduate curriculum

Casual teaching

  • Tutor training & orientation CDRom
  • Valuing casual academic staff

Course design & review

  • Beyond the Façade - Enquiry Learning in Forensic Accounting
  • Review of the undergraduate curriculum
  • Ways of Knowing & Research Literacy in Undergraduate Nursing

Cross-disciplinarity

  • Beyond the Façade - Enquiry Learning in Forensic Accounting
  • Encouraging Teaching Innovation

Educational leadership

  • Funding Teaching Innovation
  • Supporting staff development in learning and teaching
  • Teaching professionalism - Department of Nursing
  • Valuing casual academic staff

Graduate qualities

  • Beyond the Façade - Enquiry Learning in Forensic Accounting
  • Bridges to Learning - Student Enquiry in ENGG101
  • Independent Learners Introductory Program (ILIP) - Library
  • Integrating Information Literacy into Curriculum
  • Ways of Knowing & Research Literacy in Undergraduate Nursing

Groupwork/peer learning

  • Building Enquiry into an Undergraduate Subject
  • PASS (Peer Assisted Study Sessions) Program
  • Reflection, Peer Learning and the Changing Pedagogy of Music

Language & literacy

  • Integrating Information Literacy into Curriculum
  • Independent Learners Introductory Program (ILIP) - Library

Pass rates & retention

  • Opportunity Program
  • PASS (Peer Assisted Study Sessions) Program

Quality assurance

  • Review of the undergraduate curriculum
  • Teaching professionalism - Department of Nursing

Reflective practice

  • Encouraging Teaching Innovation
  • Reflection, Peer Learning and the Changing Pedagogy of Music
  • Supporting staff development in learning and teaching
  • Teaching professionalism - Department of Nursing

Research supervision

  • Immersing Students in the Research Experience in Biological Sciences

Scholarship of teaching

  • Reflection, Peer Learning and the Changing Pedagogy of Music

Sharing teaching ideas

  • Encouraging Teaching Innovation
  • Supporting staff development in learning and teaching
  • Teaching professionalism - Department of Nursing
  • Tutor training & orientation CDRom

Staff development

  • Supporting staff development in learning and teaching
  • Teaching professionalism - Department of Nursing
  • Valuing casual academic staff

Staff induction/mentors

  • Supporting staff development in learning and teaching
  • Teaching professionalism - Department of Nursing
  • Valuing casual academic staff

Student access & equity

  • Opportunity Program

Student mentoring

  • Opportunity Program

Student orientations

  • Orientation of first year undergraduates

Subject design & review

  • Building Enquiry into an Undergraduate Subject
  • Bridges to Learning - Student Enquiry in ENGG101
  • Integrating Information Literacy into Curriculum
  • Research Skills and Activities in First Year Politics

Teaching-research nexus

  • Beyond the Façade - Enquiry Learning in Forensic Accounting
  • Bridges to Learning - Student Enquiry in ENGG101
  • Building Enquiry into an Undergraduate Subject
  • Café DSL - Regular Research Seminar for Staff and Students
  • Immersing Students in the Research Experience in Biological Sciences
  • Independent Learners Introductory Program (ILIP) - Library
  • Reflection, Peer Learning and the Changing Pedagogy of Music
  • Research Skills and Activities in First Year Politics
  • Ways of Knowing & Research Literacy in Undergraduate Nursing

Team teaching

  • Team teaching - School of Biological Sciences

Valuing good teaching

  • Funding Teaching Innovation
  • Supporting staff development in learning and teaching
  • Teaching professionalism - Department of Nursing

Funding Teaching Innovation - Brian Ferry - Faculty of Education
By offering Teaching Innovations Sub-committee Grants, the Faculty encourages staff to innovate and develop projects that will contribute to learning and teaching in the Faculty.

Review of the undergraduate curriculum - Don Lewis - Faculty of Commerce
The Faculty of Commerce carried out a major review of undergraduate courses, across multiple discipline areas and teaching sites. The review benchmarked and updated programs, simplified a system of majors, and offered more flexibility for students.

Tutor training & orientation CDRom - Anne Porter and Caz Sandison - Faculty of Informatics
A web site for casual mathematics and statistics tutors (teaching assistants) was developed, with links to a tutor training and orientation package at the University of Wollongong. The site was designed for tutors do not have prior training as teachers.

Valuing casual academic staff - John McQuilton - Faculty of Arts
The Faculty of Arts has systems to support quality casual teaching in the Faculty, including a Code of Practice, a training program and a feedback cycle.

Beyond the Façade - Enquiry Learning in Forensic Accounting - Kathie Cooper - Faculty of Commerce
All UOW forensic accounting students work with original documents and actual cases. Graduates are able to think critically and identify signs of fraud - even where, on the face of it, accounting and audit standards seem to have been complied with.

Ways of Knowing & Research Literacy in Undergraduate Nursing - Margaret Wallace et al - Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
Research subjects are built into each year of undergraduate Nursing. These gradually develop student understanding. By the time students reach the end of their course, some are potential researchers and all are committed to evidence-based practice.

Encouraging Teaching Innovation - Penny Harris and David Vance - Faculty of Creative Arts
The Innovations Committee, an informal sub-committee reporting to FEC, has the brief to translate contemporary teaching approaches and methods into teaching practice. It takes an issue such as collaboration or inter-disciplinarity and examines models for delivering these learning experiences within current structures. An outcome is continual review of the structures and their relevance.

Supporting staff development in learning and teaching - Stuart Kaye and Damien Considine - Faculty of Law
The Faculty of Law offers forums, mentoring, support to attend workshops and conferences, rewards for teaching performance, peer review and a range of other opportunities to encourage staff to achieve excellence in learning and teaching.

Teaching professionalism - Department of Nursing - Isla Bowen - Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
The Department of Nursing actively encourages teaching professionalism, using collaboration, discussion forums, staff development and a range of evaluation techniques.

Integrating Information Literacy into Curriculum - Holly Tootell and Annette Meldrum - Academic Services Division, Faculty of Informatics
This case describes how an Informatics subject has integrated information literacy skills into its curriculum assessment practice. It describes the role information literacies have in student learning and the importance of ensuring the literacies are aligned with subject content and assessment. This work was the result of a collaboration between Academic and Faculty Librarian.

Building Enquiry into an Undergraduate Subject - Fazel Naghdy - Faculty of Informatics
Embedded Internet Systems is a 2nd year subject covering rapidly changing technologies. Each year, students are given an overview current to the previous year. They then work in groups to research the latest technology, helping to update the content.

Reflection, Peer Learning and the Changing Pedagogy of Music - Lotte Latukefu - Faculty of Creative Arts
The UOW Music performance program was restructured, to move away from one-to-one conservatorium-style music teaching and towards group learning. Introducing student reflection and peer learning, aligned to Vygotsky`s sociocultural theories, has been critical to the transformation.

Opportunity Program - Ian Porter - Faculty of Engineering
The Faculty offers an alternative entry program for undergraduate students who fail to meet the UAI cut-off or haven`t studied all of the assumed knowledge HSC subjects for the course. This program includes mentoring and other assistance to help students succeed in their crucial first year of study.

Orientation of first year undergraduates - Faculty of Education
The Faculty of Education has a full-day program to orient new undergraduate students to the Faculty and their studies. This is held in the UOW Orientation Week, a week prior to commencement of Autumn Session.

Café DSL - Regular Research Seminar for Staff and Students - Faculty of Informatics
Café DSL is a research group's weekly meeting, a seminar series, and an open-ended think tank. Coffee, pizza and coke are provided. Speakers include senior researchers from UOW or elsewhere, and students interested in research. Staff, postgraduate and undergraduate students attend.

Team teaching - School of Biological Sciences - Wendy Russell - Faculty of Science
All undergraduate subjects in the School are taught by two or more academic staff working together. This broadens the student experience, and encourages communication and sharing between teaching staff.

Research Skills and Activities in First Year Politics - Rebecca Albury - Faculty of Arts
First year assessments in Australian Politics (POL 111) gave students a step-by-step approach to building academic skills and discipline knowledge. Students learnt how to read academic articles, interrogate knowledge and carry out primary research.

PASS (Peer Assisted Study Sessions) Program - Academic Services Division
The PASS Program allows students to work together to consolidate understanding, reinforce key concepts and develop effective study strategies. Sessions are led by students who act as 'Peer Leaders'. PASS is offered for many first year core subjects.

Independent Learners Introductory Program (ILIP) - Library - Academic Services Division
ILIP is designed to introduce students to the basic research skills needed for university study. This program prepares students to find readings, use the Library Catalogue and use databases to find books and articles for their studies.

Bridges to Learning - Student Enquiry in ENGG101 - Faculty of Engineering
Practice is the bridge to theory for first year Engineering students in ENGG101. Students are encouraged to frame the questions that they need to solve design problems and these are answered in lectures and practical workshops. Theory and practice are interwoven around two major projects.

Immersing Students in the Research Experience in Biological Sciences - Faculty of Science
The Faculty of Science offers a range of ways for undergraduates to immerse in the research experience. Internships, supervised research projects and research-related subjects all encourage student engagement. Many students who take part in these research opportunities then continue into Honours.

Last reviewed: 25 October, 2011