A. Chris Trevitt

Australian National University | ANU · Centre for Educational Development & Academic Methods

The potential of action learning (AL) for academic development has not received a lot of attention. Building from two case studies in which AL has been used in different ways in research-intensive universities in Australia and the UK, we suggest that the approach may be of benefit to developers in the changing landscape in which they are expected t...

Purpose a. To review the entrepreneurial and educational innovations in technology-enabled distance education in practical legal education (PLE) accomplished by a unit ‘on the periphery’ of a strong research-led university b. To examine the learning organisation (LO) attributes associated with this initiative Design/methodology/approach A longit...

In this paper we consider why academics on Continuing Professional Learning (CPL) programmes often struggle with practice-based learning, and why they can find the reflective portfolio particularly challenging. We first argue that convenors should articulate the differences between ‘academic learning’ and ‘learning in academia’ for participants. Fu...

If we are successfully to harness [e]portfolios for both learning and as evidence of achievement, we need to understand the tensions that exist between these uses. In the light of a brief history of the nature and purpose of assessment in academia we consider [e]portfolios as a potentially attractive present day option that assists the integration...

There is increasing emphasis on the need for effective ways of sharing knowledge to enhance environmental management and sustainability. Knowledge exchange (KE) are processes that generate, share and/or use knowledge through various methods appropriate to the context, purpose, and participants involved. KE includes concepts such as sharing, generat...

Traditionally, assessment has been seen as something done by academics after the teaching and learning takes place. In this paper we argue that it is timely to rethink our approach to assessment, and who is implicated in the acts of judgement which lie at the heart of both formative and summative assessment. Assessment is more likely to lead to val...

Portfolios are an assessment tool that help frame expectations of personal professional learning about teaching in higher education, a key dimension of academic practice. In this paper, we review our experiences in both supporting academic colleagues to develop a teaching portfolio, and in their assessment. We argue that the authenticity of the acc...

Traditionally, assessment has been seen as something done by academics after the teaching and learning takes place. In this paper we argue that it is timely to rethink our approach to assessment, and who is implicated in the acts of judgement which lie at the heart of both formative and summative assessment. Assessment is more likely to lead to val...

The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has been established, at least in structure, remapping Higher Education as we know it. This scenario offers a new framework in which the role of universities can be rethought, independently of the field of the new degrees and post graduate studies. As part of this reconceptualisation, the roles of teachers...

The European Higher Education Area (EHEA) has been achieved, at least in structure, remapping Higher Education as we know it. This scenario offers a new framework in which the role of universities can be rethought, independently of the field of the new degrees and post grade studies. More specifically, the roles of teachers and students need to be...

In this paper we argue that the terms ‘profession’, ‘professional’ and ‘professionalism’ provide us with important insights into the practice of dentistry and the priorities for the continuing development of dentistry as a profession. More significantly, we suggest that this understanding can assist us in designing continuing professional developme...

Empirical models for predicting diurnal variations in air temperature, wind speed, and relative humidity, given daily maximum and minimum values, latitude, and Julian date, have been developed. Solar heating during the daytime is quantitatively depicted using a truncated sine function, and nighttime cooling is characterized by an exponential decay...

The European Union Bologna Process is a significant agent for internationalization of education. Acknowledging fiscal and political drivers, this article shows that Bologna inclusion of the doctoral degree offers potential for enhanced doctoral experience. Interest in transferability of doctoral education across national borders, standardization of...

This paper reviews a range of challenges and tensions experienced when using portfolios for learning as well as for summative assessment in the context of continuing professional learning in academic development programmes. While portfolios are becoming increasingly prominent, the details of how they are used are under-examined; they are often simp...

In Europe, under the roof of the Bologna process, the emerging concept of the ‘knowledge-based society’ has its pillars in the so-called European Higher Education Area (EHEA) and the European Research Area (ERA). This new kind of society demands a new role for the universities and associated stakeholders, and could provide an ideal opportunity to e...

This paper concerns curriculum development for online learning in a commercial law course using a process of sustained action-research. We identify and discuss four main characteristics in this process: a need to respond to an external requirement for change (i.e. going online): one or two key guiding teaching and learning principles; an incrementa...

Even as the notion of continuing professional learning or development (CPL) in academic practice has become more established, the concept of curriculum and the nature of the learning involved remains problematic. We argue for a focus on transformation of self, and posit this as an expanded version of one established curriculum model. Through a case...

Academic learning traditionally involves research, and the production of journal papers, books, etc. ‘Learning in academia’ refers to academics becoming more skilful in what they do. It is what legal or medical clinicians would refer to as continuing professional education (or development) (CPE/D) which, by analogy, invokes the notion of CPE in aca...

To investigate issues of curriculum in the context of a postgraduate sports medicine training programme, specifically in the field of clinical biochemistry and haematology. Following the Delphi methodology, a series of sequential questionnaires was administered to curriculum developers, clinical teachers, examiners, and registrars. Agreement on a c...

As higher education and universities become a more mainstream interest in society, pressures mount to invent new curricula and new and more appropriate ways to support the curriculum invention process. This article offers an account of the experiences of one such double-barrelled invention process associated with a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practic...

This paper reviews the experiences of an educational development project devised to support teaching staff responsible for curriculum redesign during the transition to a successful technology-facilitated off-campus study programme. The approach adopted a just-in-time (JIT) coaching model rather than a just-in-case (JIC) training model for education...

This paper reviews the experiences of an educational development project devised to support teaching staff responsible for curriculum redesign during the transition to a successful technology-facilitated off-campus study program. The approach adopted a just-in-time (JIT) coaching model rather than a just-in-case (JIC) training model for educational...

The development of online and virtual teaching and learning environments to augment formal face-to-face environments raises questions about the way the new communication and information technologies (CITs) are being incorporated into the on-campus environment. More importantly, this development challenges the meaning of the on-campus student learni...

This paper considers a new way of framing the changes currently being pursued in higher education course provision. The introduction presents two propositions: that lifelong learning and the notion of the learning individual is becoming a central consideration in our society; and that those who work in institutions should be striving to build a lea...

Distance learning is bound to develop in Australia: it was born of geographical necessity, it is present at all levels of teaching, from primary to professional, and it is currently carried along by socio-economic changes which lead to rethinking the education system. An analysis of its evolution reveals trends, throws light on the risks and signal...

‘As a general matter, innovation represents change, and there is usually built‐in resistance to change’ (Maier and Weidner, 1975, p 70). Where the introduction of computers in learning involves providing students with greater autonomy as learners, this commonly conflicts with students’ past educational experiences and can require a shift in their c...

Emerging approaches to achieving high quality learning in higher education emphasise the need for learning to be viewed and facilitated in terms of integrated teaching‐learning elements; a range of linked experiences; clearly articulated processes and expectations; high relevance of material to student experience and the “real world”; student‐centr...

Traditionally, methods used in the creation of composite temperature records have depended, implicitly or explicitly, on the assumption that the difference in temperature between two nearby sites will be a constant for any day in a given month of the year. It is demonstrated that this assumption is not necessarily valid, particularly where the site...

Abstract ‘As a general matter, innovation represents change, and there is usually built-in resistance to change’ (Maier and Weidner, 1975, p. 70).

This paper addresses criteria in the design and development of computer-based courseware. The term "interactive multimedia" describes both the technology and the demands placed on the user. It implies that the user becomes actively engaged with the subject, thereby improving the likelihood that net learning takes place. However, nothing is implied...

Competency-based education and training (CBET) is concerned with educational outcomes rather than inputs. Three approaches to assessing competence are commonly recognised: a task approach, an attributes approach, and an integrated task/attribute approach. CNET is being actively promoted by influential branches of the federal education bureaucracy....

A series of 42 hourly measurements from a weighing lysimeter of foliage temperature provided a basis from which to evaluate the residual energy balance method for determining latent heat flux which incorporated foliage temperature measurements by an infrared thermometer. The measurements were taken regularly during daylight in a 2-ha field of irrig...

The relative importance of ammonia volatilization and denitrification as loss processes following the application of urea to flooded rice by the traditional method was assessed at four sites with different characteristics in the Philippines. The effect of reducing ammonia loss on denitrification and total N loss was also studied. The total N loss w...

The effectiveness of phenylphosphorodiamidate (PPD) and N-(n)-butyl) thiophosphorictriamide (BTPT) as urease inhibitors in moist and flooded soils was evaluated in laboratory, glasshouse and rice-field experiments.The effectiveness of the inhibitors varied markedly, depending on type of soil, cultural conditions and algal growth. In flooded soils i...

Management practices, designed to reduce ammonia (NH 3 ) volatilization and total N loss from flooded rice fields, after application of urea, were assessed in the dry season at Mabitac, Philippines. The assessment was made in replicated 4.8‐m × 5.2‐m plots by determining NH 3 and total fertilizer N losses with bulk aerodynamic and ¹⁵ N balance meth...

This paper reports a study on the effects of water depth in modifying rates of ammonia emission and total nitrogen loss from flooded rice fields after fertilization with urea. Ammonia loss was determined by the mass balance micrometeorological method and total nitrogen loss by15N balance. Initially ammonia was lost at a faster rate from the shallow...

Ammonia loss from urea applied to dry-seeded rice, determined using a micrometeorological technique, varied considerably depending on the time of application. Ammonia volatilization was negligible, before and after flooding, when urea was applied to the dry soil surface two days before permanent flood. Before flooding, the urea prills remained undi...

Vertical flux densities of ammonia, water vapour and sensible heat were measured over a flooded rice field in China following the application of ammonium bicarbonate fertilizer. Aqueous and gaseous phase transfer resistances for ammonia were deduced from these measurements. The aqueous phase resistance was maximal in the morning and least in the af...

The effects of differences in size of microplot and type of enclosure on the floodwater parameters determining ammonia volatilization were studied. The results show that the use of enclosures can retard urea hydrolysis, suppress the maximum daytime pH values (an effect which is cumulative over a number of days), and significantly reduce the potenti...

Emissions of nitric oxide and other odd nitrogen oxides (NO x ) from a flooded rice field were studied after urea had been broadcast into the floodwater.The NO x flux from the fertilized area was very low (0.210-9 g N m-2 s-1) for the first few days after application of urea and was high (0.9510-9 g N m-2 s-1) in the subsequent period when signific...

Total nitrogen loss and ammonia volatilization from applications of ammonium bicarbonate and urea to flooded rice (Oryza sativa L.) grown on an acidic lacustrine clay in China were measured by15N balance and micrometeorological methods. Attempts were also made to reduce nitrogen loss by using different methods of applying the fertilizers. Ammonia v...

A single-beam infrared absorption hygrometer for measuring fluctuations in atmospheric water vapour and suitable for use in eddy correlation studies of evatranspiration is described. This instrument differs from previously described devices since it incorporates a method for monitoring detector responsivity and correcting for temperature-induced ch...

An increase of more than 40% in both the mean and fluctuating parts of the electric field strength and air-earth current has been observed during the daytime development of the convective boundary layer under the influence of the sea breeze. This is attributed to the advection and turbulent organization of surf- and wave-generated space-charge. Flu...

Recent work on conceptualising the curriculum in higher education has posited a three-way mix across the domains of knowledge, action and the self. In this paper we use this broad theoretical framework as a viewpoint to retrospectively inquire into the nature and intimate 'learning about professional learning' experience of one mid- career medical...

This paper explores issues in modelling reflective approaches to cooperative work-based education programmes during professional development activities. We draw on the contrasting experiences of designing and conducting formal (structured graduate program) and informal (coaching) cooperative professional development activities involving academic de...

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