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Associate Professor Belinda Tynan (Academic Director, Faculty of The Professions - University of New England NSW)
This presentation will cover the development, negotiation and submission of a large Carrick Grant for promoting shared conceptual frameworks about teaching and learning and to support strategic change in how graduate certificates of higher education (GCHE) contribute to the professional development of academic staff within a fast changing higher education context.
The seminar is relevant to colleagues who wish to explore the process of developing a Carrick Grant and also for those interested in the professionalisation of teaching. Key to the seminar is discussion about working collaboratively and the issues faced at several levels. These include interpersonal relationships, institutional issues, challenges and constraints and considerable sector-wide observation of the project.
The presentation draws out how the grant was put together, how partners were identified and highlights the process of developing and then leading a Carrick Grant. Key partners in this project include Central Queensland University amongst others [UC, SU, BU, ECU, MU, UQ]
The project has been running since mid-2007 and has already developed a collaborative model of cross-institutional delivery of a program for tertiary teaching in all of the universities in order to obtain efficiencies of delivery, core curriculum and capitalise on the strengths of individual universities in the formal professional development of academics.
Interview (with Leone Hinton)
Dr Tynan is the Leader and Associate Professor of the Academic Unit Team within the Teaching and Learning Centre at the University of New England. She has a background in the field of academic staff development, teacher education, distance education, online-learning and arts education. She has worked internationally (NZ, Singapore and Scotland) and received a range of internal and competitive funds. Her research background is in the area of academic development, models of research collaboration and more recently social technologies. Belinda is also an editor for HERD and ILTJE which are key journals relevant to teaching and learning in higher education. Belinda is also the treasurer of the Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA). She has extensive project management experience and is currently involved in leading three large Carrick Grants. Belinda has an emerging research profile with more than 30 refereed publications, book chapters, journal articles and conference presentations.
10 March 2008
CQUniversity CRICOS Provider Codes: QLD-00219C; NSW-01315F; VIC-01624D
