Building Academic Leadership for Course Coordinators
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Registration has closed for 2008 but you can register your interest for the A project team from Curtin was successful in winning a national Australian Learning and Teaching Council Leadership for Excellence in Teaching & Learning Grant: Building Academic Leadership Capability at the Course Level: Developing Course Coordinators as Academic Leaders.
The focus of the project is to enhance the academic leadership knowledge and skills of course coordinators in higher education institutions. Curtin was particularly interested in this project as the focus is one of the identified initiatives in Curtin's Teaching & Learning Enabling Plan 2006-2008.
The project aims to clearly identify the roles and responsibilities of course coordinators, develop an academic leadership program for course leaders, and therefore improve course quality and enhance the learning outcomes and experiences for students.
After consulting with course coordinators within Curtin, ATN partners and other universities to examine the roles, responsibilities and needs of course coordinators a staff development program was developed. The resulting professional development pilot course is titled Academic Leadership for Course Coordinators Program and began in August 2007. The Program will be run again in 2008. The Program is intended to assist busy academic staff who coordinate courses to enable them to develop knowledge and skills in academic leadership to create a vision of what a course might be, and foster a culture that supports and delivers excellent courses. The Program provides course coordinators with theoretical and practical ideas and resources relating to academic leadership.
The project builds on the ATN collaborative priorities for improving teaching and learning and leadership and career development opportunities for academic staff in Australia.
