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Transdisciplinary Educational Design: Creating A Structured Space For Critical Reflection On E-Learning Assessment Practices, Meg O'Reilly, Allan Ellis Feb 2013

Transdisciplinary Educational Design: Creating A Structured Space For Critical Reflection On E-Learning Assessment Practices, Meg O'Reilly, Allan Ellis

Dr Meg O'Reilly

Many academic staff are experiencing the multiple challenges and pressures of increased teaching loads, e-learning design and developments, ongoing research including the scholarship of teaching, as well as fiscal accountability. No wonder most lecturers have little time or energy left for the long-valued processes of critical reflection. This paper describes an educational design initiative of three cycles involving academic staff from a range of disciplines who came together with reference librarians and technical support staff in a series of meetings to reflect in a structured action learning process on their practices of designing assessment for e-learning. Creating a structured space …


Editorial Volume 7:2, Dr Meg O'Reilly Jan 2013

Editorial Volume 7:2, Dr Meg O'Reilly

Dr Meg O'Reilly

Welcome to Volume 7, Issue 2 of JUTLP. It is wonderful to see the journal continuing from strength to strength, and with this Special Issue devoted to the theme of “Achieving Teaching-Research Connections in Undergraduate Programs”, there was an enormous response from authors in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Although we have stretched the issue to encompass more articles than usual, there were simply too many well-conceived initiatives to include them all in this issue. Watch out for extra articles on this theme in future issues.