Vice-Chancellor Professor John Rickard has officially launched Studies in Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development - a new, electronic, scholarly journal about teaching and learning.

The journal provides a forum for high quality research into teaching and learning.

The inaugural double issue publishes the refereed proceedings of the 2004 CQU Teaching and Learning Showcase, which publicised ‘best practice’ strategies and techniques designed to improve university teaching and learning. Topics include discipline-based knowledge, flexible delivery, online learning, student academic integrity, student assessment and student support.

The journal is aimed at researchers, policy makers and practitioners working in education, particularly but not exclusively university and post-compulsory education.

An innovative feature of the journal is the Research, Evaluation and Collaboration in Teaching (REACT) section, which enables educators to improve their teaching by researching and writing about their own practices and drawing on the experiences of others through collaborative discussion sessions.

The journal currently has 36 Editorial Board members, including eminent educational researchers from universities in Australia, Canada, Fiji, Finland, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Malaysia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States and the West Indies.

The journal is the joint initiative of the Learning, Evaluation, Innovation and Development (LEID) Centre, within CQU’s Division of Teaching and Learning Services, and staff from CQU’s Faculty of Informatics and Communication.

Visit Studies in LEID at http://sleid.cqu.edu.au .

Photos: Professor Rickard launches the journal and celebrates with Associate Professor Patrick Danaher and Dr Jeanne McConachie from the Division of Teaching and Learning.