What's he up to?

2009

Academic
Stuart contributes to the GCHE unit EEE716 - Specialist Studies in Higher Education.

Stuart contributes to academic professional development activities run by Schools/Faculties on request.

Stuart participated as a peer observer in the Faculty of Science and Technology's 'Peer observation of teaching: Engaging new teachers' (POTENT) program for new casual teaching staff.

Stuart contributed to the Deakin Teaching and Learning Conference for 2009, including collaborating in the Research Briefing presentation Negotiating Flexible Learning: a Tool for Matching Learners’ and Teachers’ Perceptions and Expectations of Flexible Pedagogies.

Stuart made a presentation to a study tour group from Thompson Rivers University, British Columbia - The integration of off-campus, off-shore and online delivery into teaching and learning (6 MB).

Stuart made a presentation as part of the ITL brown bag lunch seminar series - An Online Student Portfolio for the Development and Assessment of Engineering Graduate Attributes (2 MB).

Stuart is a project team member of two STALGS projects for 2009:

• An investigation of student online engagement and its relationship to academic and attitudinal outcomes; and
• Negotiating Flexible Learning: A Tool for Matching Learners’ and Teachers’ Perceptions and Expectations of Flexible Pedagogies.
  

Research
Stuart retains a strong interest in Frequency Domain Analysis.

Stuart was invited by the Centre for Material and Fibre Innovation to present the seminar Wavelet Texture Analysis for multi-scale materials characterisation.

Stuart (as a team member with Dale Holt) was awarded a $219,000 Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC - formerly Carrick Institute) Leadership for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Program Grant (for 2008 and 2009) for the project entitled Strategic leadership for institutional teaching and learning centres: developing a model for the 21st century.

Stuart gave a presentation entitled 'Publishing in Higher Education: Practical Advice' as part of the 2009 Higher Education Research Colloquia series.

Service
Stuart represents ITL on the DSO Management Advisory Panel (formerly the DSO system management committee).

Stuart represents ITL on the Faculty of Science and Technology teaching and learning committee.

Stuart is a manuscript reviewer for the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology.

Stuart is a manuscript reviewer for the journal Computers and Education.

Stuart is a manuscript reviewer for the journal Computer Application in Engineering Education.

Stuart is a manuscript reviewer for the International Journal of Engineering Education.

Stuart is a manuscript reviewer for the Textile Research Journal.

Stuart is a manuscript reviewer for the Australasian Journal of Engineering Education.

Stuart is a manuscript reviewer for the HERDSA09 conference.

Stuart is a manuscript reviewer for the ascilite09 conference.

Professional / Other
Stuart participates in the following professional activities:

• member of the Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ascilite);
• member of the editorial board for the Australasian Journal of Engineering Education;
• corporate member of Engineers Australia;
• member of the Engineers Australia College of Information Technology and Electronics Engineers;
• member of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU).

You can also check out what Stuart did in previous years (some links may no longer work).

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