Higher Education Review Process

Striving for Quality: Learning, Teaching and Scholarship

striving for quality: learning, teaching and scholarship

© Commonwealth of Australia 2002
ISBN 0642 77272 X
ISBN 0642 77278 9 (Electronic version)
DEST No. 6891HERC02A

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contents

foreword

purpose

executive summary

1. introduction

2. the distinctiveness of 'higher education'

3. a changing context for teaching and learning

a. evolution to a mass higher education system

b. a global knowledge-based economy

c. impact of information and communication technologies

d. the internationalisation of Australian higher education

4. changing patterns of student enrolment, engagement and expectations

5. graduate outcomes for a new century

6. future challenges and ways forward

a. assessing the quality of teaching and learning

quality and standards

the current approach in Australia

strengthening the quality framework

b. effective and efficient learning experiences and environments

shift from a focus on teaching to learning

accepting and adapting to a new teaching and learning context

c. constructions of academic work and the quality of teaching and learning

broader notions of academic work

all academics are not the same

appropriate valuing and rewarding of teaching

professionalising higher education teaching

d. commonwealth role in the quality of teaching and learning

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