The Federal Government intends evaluating graduate learning outcomes against academic standards. ... more The Federal Government intends evaluating graduate learning outcomes against academic standards. This paper describes the work of the Learning and Teaching Academic Standards Project in Law in facilitating the development of Threshold Learning Outcomes for the Bachelor of Laws by the judiciary, the profession, regulators, educators and students.
The Australian Government has announced the creation of a new quality and regulatory agency based... more The Australian Government has announced the creation of a new quality and regulatory agency based on recommendations stemming from the Bradley Review of Higher Education. The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) will be established in 2011 and build on work previously undertaken by the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA), but will operate with an extended brief. Of particular interest to ALTA members is that TEQSA is to be charged with evaluating the performance of institutions and their programs of study (such as the LLB) against a range of standards criteria. These criteria will include those set out in the revised Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF), which are to be aligned with the academic standards that discipline communities nationally agree represent the core ‗threshold learning outcomes‘ for their graduates.
The critical concerns for legal education have been identified and discussed in this book: curric... more The critical concerns for legal education have been identified and discussed in this book: curriculum design that includes graduate attributes; embedding specific attributes across the curriculum; empowering students to learn; academic teamwork to manage large student cohorts; first year and final year transition strategies; tracking students' personal development through the use of ePortfolio; assessment strategies; improving student well-being and promoting resilience; teaching practice to achieve deep learning; flexibility in delivery; the use of Web 2.0 technology; and understanding the 21st century student. Features • Critical overview of legal education in Australia identifies critical concerns for legal educators • Australia's leading law teachers' contributions provide rich resource of research-based literature • Scholarly perspective provides opportunity to enhance teaching practice • Practical examples can be applied to engage students • Wide range of subject areas helps readers to recognise what encapsulates teaching professionalism
... Liz Smith, Sally Kift, Karen Nelson, Judy Nagy and Marcia Devlin Charles Sturt University, QU... more ... Liz Smith, Sally Kift, Karen Nelson, Judy Nagy and Marcia Devlin Charles Sturt University, QUT, Deakin University ... The federal government's response to the 2008 Bradley Review of higher education (Bradley, Noonan, Nugent, & Scales, 2008) sets a clear target for increasing ...
This paper articulates preliminary findings of participatory action research (Bradbury and Reason... more This paper articulates preliminary findings of participatory action research (Bradbury and Reason 2008; Kemmis and McTaggart 2005) that is exploring how design thinking approaches (Brown and Wyatt, 2010) are informing the practices of curriculum transformation. The participatory action research methodology is supporting a collaborative systematic approach to this inquiry, which aims to simultaneously develop understandings about curriculum design practice and implement improvements to practice.
Israel, M. <https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/view/author/Israel, Mark.html>ORCID: 0000-0002-1263-8699 <http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1263-8699>, Kift, S. and Field, R. (2010) Setting National Standards for the Bachelor of Laws. @TheLCA, October ., 2010
Intentional first year curriculum design as a means of facilitating student engagement: some exem... more Intentional first year curriculum design as a means of facilitating student engagement: some exemplars
The Federal Government intends evaluating graduate learning outcomes against academic standards. ... more The Federal Government intends evaluating graduate learning outcomes against academic standards. This paper describes the work of the Learning and Teaching Academic Standards Project in Law in facilitating the development of Threshold Learning Outcomes for the Bachelor of Laws by the judiciary, the profession, regulators, educators and students.
The Australian Government has announced the creation of a new quality and regulatory agency based... more The Australian Government has announced the creation of a new quality and regulatory agency based on recommendations stemming from the Bradley Review of Higher Education. The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) will be established in 2011 and build on work previously undertaken by the Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA), but will operate with an extended brief. Of particular interest to ALTA members is that TEQSA is to be charged with evaluating the performance of institutions and their programs of study (such as the LLB) against a range of standards criteria. These criteria will include those set out in the revised Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF), which are to be aligned with the academic standards that discipline communities nationally agree represent the core ‗threshold learning outcomes‘ for their graduates.
The critical concerns for legal education have been identified and discussed in this book: curric... more The critical concerns for legal education have been identified and discussed in this book: curriculum design that includes graduate attributes; embedding specific attributes across the curriculum; empowering students to learn; academic teamwork to manage large student cohorts; first year and final year transition strategies; tracking students' personal development through the use of ePortfolio; assessment strategies; improving student well-being and promoting resilience; teaching practice to achieve deep learning; flexibility in delivery; the use of Web 2.0 technology; and understanding the 21st century student. Features • Critical overview of legal education in Australia identifies critical concerns for legal educators • Australia's leading law teachers' contributions provide rich resource of research-based literature • Scholarly perspective provides opportunity to enhance teaching practice • Practical examples can be applied to engage students • Wide range of subject areas helps readers to recognise what encapsulates teaching professionalism
... Liz Smith, Sally Kift, Karen Nelson, Judy Nagy and Marcia Devlin Charles Sturt University, QU... more ... Liz Smith, Sally Kift, Karen Nelson, Judy Nagy and Marcia Devlin Charles Sturt University, QUT, Deakin University ... The federal government&amp;#x27;s response to the 2008 Bradley Review of higher education (Bradley, Noonan, Nugent, &amp;amp; Scales, 2008) sets a clear target for increasing ...
This paper articulates preliminary findings of participatory action research (Bradbury and Reason... more This paper articulates preliminary findings of participatory action research (Bradbury and Reason 2008; Kemmis and McTaggart 2005) that is exploring how design thinking approaches (Brown and Wyatt, 2010) are informing the practices of curriculum transformation. The participatory action research methodology is supporting a collaborative systematic approach to this inquiry, which aims to simultaneously develop understandings about curriculum design practice and implement improvements to practice.
Israel, M. <https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/view/author/Israel, Mark.html>ORCID: 0000-0002-1263-8699 <http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1263-8699>, Kift, S. and Field, R. (2010) Setting National Standards for the Bachelor of Laws. @TheLCA, October ., 2010
Intentional first year curriculum design as a means of facilitating student engagement: some exem... more Intentional first year curriculum design as a means of facilitating student engagement: some exemplars
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