How are universities using Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching?

We are delighted by the success of the course. Since launching it in January 2018, over 3,000 people from over 50 countries have enrolled. The course's relevance and quality to the higher education sector is well demonstrated by the many tertiary institutions that are using the course. Sixteen Australian and two New Zealand tertiary institutions and a Malaysian campus of an Australian institution are now using the course as part of their provision of learning and teaching professional development opportunities for their staff. Below are representative quotes from colleagues at those institutions.

 

"On behalf of those constantly searching for good professional development for learning and teaching in higher education, thank you for all the work you and your team/s have done here. It is an immensely valuable and accessible resource. " Dr Karina Luzia, Professional Learning Project Coordinator, Macquarie University

"We would love to use your fabulous MOOC content for a new professional development plan for sessional staff we are introducing at Deakin." Dr Julia Savage, Professional Learning, Learning Environments, Research and Evaluation, Deakin University

"I thought you might like to have evidence of the national impact of your wonderful initiative." Professor Shelly Kinash, Director, Advancement of Learning & Teaching, University of Southern Queensland. USQ has imported the MOOC into their LMS and sent us the flyer advertising their teaching induction program. 

 

There are five main ways that universities are using the course.

Encouraging staff to enrol
Staff are provided with information about the course and encouraged to enrol.

Using course content in university professional development sessions
With our blessing, some universities have used our course content to develop workshops and online materials for their own staff.

Developed assessment tasks for their staff
Some universities have developed an assessment task for their staff to do when they have completed our online course. This assessment task is then assessed by the university and staff are provided with a Certificate of Completion for the course by their own university. This certificate may also provide the staff member with credit towards a Certificate of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (or similar name).

Imported course into university LMS
We will provide to your university the course content files so that the entire course can be imported into your university’s Learning Management System (LMS) and customised for your context. Nine universities have done this in the first 14 months.

Translation of the course
Currently we are working with the Chinese University of Hong Kong to translate the course into Chinese. Please do contact us if you are interested in translating the course into another language.

The course is offered under a CC Attribution Share Alike license. If you would like to discuss with us the different ways of using the course content, please contact Linden Clarke at lindenclarke@swin.edu.au.