Teaching Fellowships
Current Teaching Fellows
Dr Oliver Burmeister
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Read more about our current and past Teaching Fellows and their projects. |
The Teaching Fellowship Scheme is funded through the Office of the DVC (Academic). Through this scheme staff are released from regular duties to engage in strategic learning and teaching development projects involving the scholarship of teaching and leadership of change.
The fellowship scheme is designed principally to:
- Promote and instigate the scholarship and practice of blended and flexible learning at CSU.
- Promote the scholarship of learning and teaching through the provision of models of best practice, as well as innovation exemplars.
- Support the development, evaluation and dissemination of good practice in flexible learning and teaching.
- Model uses for emerging flexible learning and teaching technologies.
- Review conceptualisations of educational processes, policies and practices concerning flexible learning and teaching for the professions.
(FLI Strategic Plan 2009-2011)
It's about giving gifted educators the space to innovate - to try new ideas in blended and flexible learning and to extend their practice, and then to share what they have learned with as many people as possible to enhance the use of blended and flexible learning across our CSU community. The following video showcases some of the excellent results that have come from the Fellowship scheme.
Interested readers may also like to read a recent paper, Transforming distance education curricula through distributive leadership, which looks at the fellowship program from in terms of this distributive leadership strategy.
The benefits of becoming a teaching fellow
Past fellows and their colleagues have found immense benefit from their fellowship projects. Here are just a few:
- Mentoring of fellows and colleagues
- Redesign of courses
- Benefits for individual academic (presentations, publications, research mentoring, recognition)
- Benefits for school, faculty, university
- Benefits for courses and subjects
- Development of design-based research proposal
- Research focussed on academic staff & students
- Focus on transformative learning of individual fellows
In the words of a former Teaching Fellow, Lyn Hay (2010):
'I enjoyed the most professional development I have ever experienced as an academic ...I have enjoyed the comradeship and leadership provided by other FLI Fellows and FLI Directors. As a result of this collaboration I have co-presented at a number of in-house PD sessions as well as an international DE conference, where we are now exploring the possibility of turning the conference presentation into a journal article... This Fellowship has been a highlight in my career.'
Conference support scheme
Teaching Fellows also gain access to conference support during their Fellowship, or the year following their Fellowship. The value of the support is $1,000 per full Fellowship, or pro rata for proportional Fellowship. For more information, contact Carole Hunter.
Further Information
For further information about the Teaching Fellows Development Program, contact Carole Hunter:
| Carole Hunter Lecturer in Higher Education & FLI Strategic Projects Coordinator |
+61 2 6365 7127 0407959848 Email Carole |
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For further information about the Teaching Fellowship Transformative Research Program, contact Betsy Lyon:
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Betsy Lyon Research Assistant
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+61 2 605 19411 Email Betsy |
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