In the five years, 1993 to 1998, total Commonwealth Government spending on education fell from 4.9 to 4.4 per cent of Gross Domestic Product. Australian universities have responded to this changed funding environment though the increased use of casual teaching staff. The aim of this study was to develop, implement and evaluate a short, cost-effective training package designed to improve the rat...

W omen doctors who wish to advance academically face many challenges. The important role of mentorship for female teaching staff who are pursuing such career development has been previously described. However, the current environment in health care has negatively affected the pool of qualified and willing mentors. Confronted with increased demands for clinical productivity, many senior teaching...

The title that I have chosen for the 108th Oration, to open the 1988 teaching session, is not an excuse to indulge in a theological discourse this is neither the time nor the place. Nor do I wish, as a joint appointment University staff member, to discuss the special arrangements in Belfast which accord such individuals a contract of employment with both the University and the Health Board. Suc...

This paper presents an approach of collecting contextualized attention metadata combined from inside as well as outside a LMS and analyzing them to create feedback about the student activities for the teaching staff. Two types of analyses were run on the collected data: first, key actions were extracted to identify usage patterns and tendencies throughout the whole course and then usage statist...

Students express widespread dissatisfaction with academic feedback. Teaching staff perceive a frequent lack of student engagement with written feedback, much of which goes uncollected or unread. Published evidence shows that audio feedback is highly acceptable to students but is underused. This paper explores methods to produce and deliver audio feedback to a range of students engaged in a vari...

This paper describes the implementation and evaluation of a comprehensive Department-based training and support program for casual tutors and laboratory demonstrators at the University of Melbourne. The program provides a structured approach to help casual staff develop an understanding of what is involved in high quality teaching and student learning, which can be applied in a computer science...

This paper examines the role of staff training and support in the experience of staff with online teaching at Australian Catholic University. Australian Catholic University’s online education is differentiated from other Australian universities for two reasons: 1) It has 6 nationally based campuses spread across a geographical reach of 2,500 kilometres, 2) It has no internal Flexible Learning o...

For peer assessments to be helpful, student reviewers need to submit reviews of good quality. This requires certain training or guidance from teaching staff, lest reviewers read each other’s work uncritically, and assign good scores but offer few suggestions. One approach to improving the review quality is calibration. Calibration refers to comparing students’ individual reviews to a standard—u...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the present study is to determine in what way a conventional versus a modern medical curriculum influences teaching delivery in formal radiology education. METHODS A web-based questionnaire was distributed by the ESR to radiology teaching staff from 93 European teaching institutions. RESULTS Early exposure to radiology in pre-clinical years is typically reported in...

This paper reports on a survey of the use of video as a teaching resource within one British University, drawing on evidence gathered during 1995 from fourteen Schools within its four Faculties. It identifies the factors and issues which influence the use of video in teaching, including management of video resources within the Schools; how video is used to support teaching strategies; and its p...