My name is Kym Fraser and I led the group of experts from universities across Australia in the development of this course.

We chose to develop the course because we are committed to excellent university teaching and we believe that an introduction to learning and teaching concepts and strategies early in a teaching career can make a positive difference to those first few years of teaching – for both the teacher and the students.

This course has been developed as part of an Office for Learning and Teaching National Teaching Fellowship which was awarded to me by the Australian Government Department of Education and Training. The course was also supported by a generous grant from the Council of Australian Directors of Academic Development (CADAD), now called the Council of Australasian University Leaders of Learning and Teaching (CAULLT). Without the support of those two organisations, this course would not have been developed.

My colleague Linden Clarke has worked with me on the Fellowship since the application stage. Linden has gone above and beyond her role ensuring that everything worked and was completed on time. Linden's work has been integral to the development of this course and the success of my Fellowship and I am immensely grateful to her for her unfailing support and good humour.

My colleague Josh Muntz' technical expertise was invaluable in the development of the course. I am grateful to him for the many hours that he dedicated to this course.

My colleague David Yammouni is a wizard with digital recordings and worked his magic in the challenging scenario of receiving recordings made in different universities, on different devices. I shall be forever indebted to him for stitching different recordings together in a seamless manner.

My thanks also goes to Associate Professor Elizabeth Branigan, Director of the Learning Transformations Unit at Swinburne University of Technology, for her ability to magic resources out of thin air and her generous support of my Fellowship.

Funding Acknowledgement

Support for this project has been provided by the Australian Government Department of Education and Training. The views expressed in this resource do not necessarily reflect the views of the Australian Government Department of Education and Training.

The Council of Australasian University Leaders in Learning and Teaching (CAULLT), previously known as the Council of Australian Directors of Academic Development (CADAD), generously supported the Fellowship with a grant. Both CAULLT's financial and in principle support of the Fellowship were integral to the original success of my Fellowship application and to the success of the Fellowship itself. I will be eternally grateful for their support.