Projects

Part of supporting academics with their teaching, learning, and scholarship, I regularly provide support with teaching and learning projects through various T&L Grant schemes that are run by the University of Southern Queensland.

For each of these schemes, I lead and facilitate a community of practice that focuses on scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), and this community gathers every month for the duration of the L&T scheme. During these community gatherings, I implement Wenger-Trayners’ model and guiding process for communities of practice: building community, sharing experience, and building domain knowledge. In each gathering, the topics for the next discussion are negotiated among the community members. After the gathering, based on the agreed upon topic, I prepare a coffee course post to provide a starting discussion point for the upcoming meeting. Through this process, the community is able to learn from each other, value-add to each other’s projects, network among like-minded colleagues from across the University, and build relationships that will continue after the L&T scheme finishes.

By the numbers

To date, I have supported 15 projects to completion by the end of 2019, with another 6 projects that are continuing to be supported through to the end of 2020. As new L&T schemes are released, I will continue to support these communities and projects as well.

The following selected projects illustrate the depth and breadth of the support I provide.

Project: Integrating Indigenous perspectives into undergraduate astronomy

Team: Dr Carolyn Brown (lead), Jack Okumura, Jake Clark

Support: Ethics approval process and documentation, project planning, support service negotiation, workshop support, dissemination opportunities, report development

Project: Gamifying transversal skills in knowledge management courses

Team: Associate Professor Eric Kong (lead), Christine Bassett

Support: Application coaching, facilitation and negotiation of support for the game development through to handover, good practice report development support, evidencing impact

Project: PLaN into HeadStart

Team: Melissa Fanshawe (lead), Kirsty Felton

Support: Application coaching, project planning, resource optimisation, dissemination strategies

Project: Teaching and assessing reflection in higher education

Team: Professor Georgina Barton (lead), Professor Margaret Baguley, Professor Marie Kavanagh, Associate Professor Janet McDonald, Julie Copley

Support: Project resource identification, workshop and symposium support, SoTL support

Project: dialogic feedback

Team: Dr Chris Dann (lead), Andy Bell

Support: Application coaching, workshop support, dissemination strategy

Project: The Zone

Team: Dr Charmaine Davis (lead), Mary McGovern, Orie Green, Professor Jill Lawrence, Professor Lorelle Burton

Support: Reconceptualising deliverables, optimising resource allocation, workshop support, good practice guidelines development support and review, SoTL mentoring

Project: The Counseling lab

Team: Dr Carol du Plessis (lead), Dr Nathan Beel, Dr Nancey Hoare, Dr Tanya Machin

Support: Application coaching, resource identification, SoTL mentoring