Showcase snares leading Canadian teaching/learning specialist
Published on 07 December, 2006
A leading Canadian teaching/learning specialist has been confirmed as a keynote speaker for CQU's 2007 Learning and Teaching Showcase in February.
Dr Gary Poole (pictured) is the Director of the Centre for Teaching and Academic Growth and the Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Dr Poole has won a 3M Teaching Fellowship, which is a Canadian national teaching award, an Excellence in Teaching award from Simon Fraser University, and a Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal for contributions to Higher Education.
He was the President of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education from 2000 to 2004. He is the co-author of 'Effective Teaching with Technology in Higher Education', and 'The Psychology of Health and Health Care: A Canadian Perspective'.
Dr Poole's research interests in higher education include the identification of valid measures of educational impact at the institutional level and understanding students’ experiences in community service learning environments and self-directed projects.
Further information: http://www.tag.ubc.ca/about/institute/ISoTL.php .
Central Queensland University is inviting all educators in the region to its 2007 Learning and Teaching Showcase, 'The Scholarship of Learning and Teaching at CQU – Informing Practice – Sharing Wisdom', on February 22-23, 2007.
The Showcase will be held at CQU Rockhampton, with video links to other regional and Australian International Campuses.
The Showcase will include a student panel discussion; presentations by CQU staff; and a debate on the teaching-research nexus.
To register, visit the Showcase website:.
http://learning.cqu.edu.au/staff_development/showcase.htm .
In Dr Poole's interactive session - 'Informing and Enhancing our Teaching: Moving from Inference to Evidence' - he will begin by looking at some examples of pedagogical research and reasons for the attention and excitement the scholarship of teaching and learning has attracted at institutions of higher education around the world.
"We will also look at ways in which Institutions in Canada and elsewhere are building programmes to support this research," he said.
"Then, we will look at some of the research that attendees would like to conduct concerning teaching and learning in their classes. We will generate research questions from this discussion and explore outcome measures that could be well-suited to answer these questions".