Professor Richard Johnstone will deliver a special 'Capstone Address' during CQU's Learning and Teaching Showcase in February (8-10).

Professor Johnstone, the foundation Executive Director of the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, will speak on 'Enhancing Learning: The Role of the Disciplines'.

He will relate how Australian higher education has been remarkably successful in refocussing itself, over the last decade and a half, on the facilitation and promotion of good teaching and effective learning.

"Much has been achieved, but partly as a consequence of the sheer volume of work that has been done, problems remain in ensuring that these achievements are communicated and built upon in ways that benefit the maximum numbers of students.

"This is partly a problem of physical distance – both within Australia itself and in our relation to higher education systems in other countries – but it is as much if not more to do with other kinds of distance, for example within or between disciplines.

"In the context of the recent establishment of the Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, opportunities exist to look more closely at the nature of disciplinary difference, and to develop better ways of ensuring mutual interaction and advantage.

"There will also be room within the broad theme of the presentation to provide a brief overview of the range of granting and award programs offered and overseen by the Carrick Institute.".

Further information: www.carrickinstitute.edu.au/carrick/go and http://learning.cqu.edu.au/showcase2006/