Silvia McCormackLa Trobe University, Melbourne Australia · Learning and Teaching
Silvia McCormack
EdD (SFHEA)
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Introduction
Silvia McCormack is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia in the Learning and Teaching Division. Silvia researches about teaching and learning in higher education. Her current projects relate to the evaluation of teaching practices, Scholarship of Learning and Teaching and curriculum design in Higher Education.
https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/search?by=text&type=user&v=Silvia%20McCormack
Additional affiliations
January 2016 - August 2017
La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia
Position
- Lecturer: Academic Coordinator (Coursework)
September 2019 - present
Position
- Educational Developer
Description
- Senior Lecturer - Assessment and Feedback in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.
August 2004 - August 2011
Publications
Publications (25)
In this chapter it is recommended that entrepreneurial education is integrated across all undergraduate degrees in Australian universities. The challenges of globalisation, changing employment patterns and pressures of national competitiveness require an expansion of entrepreneurial skills beyond their traditional disciplinary home in business scho...
In this study, the effectiveness of a classroom simulation is explored in finance education. The simulation involved teams of students negotiating a business sale and/or purchase, by applying their discipline knowledge, skills and graduate capabilities. The simulation design is based on the constructivist theory of learning. A case study approach p...
The purpose of this paper is to outline ways in which the current economic ideology, that of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism, has shaped the assessment system in one School in a Faculty in a mid-sized Australian teaching and research university.
The main source of university funding in Australia is through Commonwealth government funding arran...
A film about the mediation process, The Scholarship Dispute, was incorporated
into the teaching and learning program of the first-year compulsory law
subject Dispute Resolution in 2012 at La Trobe University Law School. This
article describes and reports on two studies evaluating the teaching and
learning effect of the film.
Report for the National Education Performance Monitoring Taskforce. MCEETYA (Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs) .
This chapter is concerned with perceptions of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) research. While increasing numbers of faculty report that they value SoTL and that it is supported by their departments (Gurung et al. 2019), SoTL as research has been questioned in the literature (see, for example, Canning and Masika 2020; Tight 2018). Ou...
Few issues have attracted as much policy interest in the tertiary sector as graduate employability. Graduate employability positions universities and their students as key players in the national economy. At the same time, the standard conception of graduate employability, as it has evolved from human capital theory and modified by neoliberal ideol...
This paper investigates the impacts of employability on Humanities, Arts and Social Science (HASS) in Australia. Increasingly, universities must evidence the ‘value’ of education to students and the economy (Baron and McCormack, 2020). One way of demonstrating this is by promoting graduate employability. Accordingly, employability has become a key...
Two young men, Johann and Joseph Ungerbäck, travelled from Arzberg, Waldbach Austria to London in the early 1900s to seek economic opportunity. Events went well for them both for over eleven years and they had every intention to stay in Britain. However, in May 1915 after the sinking of the Lusitania by a German U-Boat, the British government annou...
The present research investigates green multinational firms’ perceptions of Chinese graduates’ employability. China’s strong economic growth has increased demand for new talent and heightened attention on graduate employability skills. In addition to desirable ‘hard skills’ (e.g., technical expertise and knowledge), recruiters are increasingly look...
Neo-liberal drivers that monitor efficiency and productivity shape the planning, development, and continued review of university courses in Australia. As an example, approved teacher education courses pass through three separate layers of regulatory and audit activities. These audit mechanisms exist to ensure that teacher education courses are fit...
The new Sustainable Development Goals (hereafter SDGs) (United Nations, 2015) require organisations to have strategies that support and interconnect sustainability issues and targets for executing them. Therefore, developing students’ competencies in sustainability thinking and its application is imperative for developing employable graduates who c...
A classroom-based simulation activity is conducted in a third-year finance subject, involving teams of students negotiating a business sale or purchase. A case study approach provides a basis for interpretation. Interviews with students, along with statistical information and relevant policy documents, were analyzed and interpreted to generate the...
Monday 29th October 2.00 – 4.00 in SS-429
A window into your teaching practice - a workshop for sessional/casual academic staff
As a sessional/casual academic staff member there is limited time to discuss the practice of teaching and improving student learning. Sessional staff play an important role in teaching and tutoring students. This worksh...
While the expansion in entrepreneurship education in Australian universities is impressive when assessed in terms of number of programs and curriculum offerings, a closer look reveals a more complex picture with a range of challenges.
The first postgraduate course focusing on entrepreneurship in Australian universities was introduced in the 1990s...
In 2012 La Trobe University decided that every undergraduate student, across every discipline, would have significant and assessed experience of Sustainability Education (SE). The plan for achieving full coverage of SE at La Trobe was reported at a previous World Symposium for Sustainable Development in Higher Education conference (Hocking and Ridd...
Presentation at the 2015 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Conference
Australian universities need to maintain their high reputation for quality in order to attract and retain buyers of Australian education-related products. Learners are becoming increasingly discerning in terms of what they are buying and why they should buy it. Thus, quality is a critical issue for Australian university programs in general as well...
This reports documents a range of models for the use of information communication technology (ICT) in the teaching and learning of languages other than English (LOTE) in independent schools
Report for the National Education Performance Monitoring Taskforce. MCEETYA
Questions
Questions (8)
What key criteria/measures could be used to establish the effectiveness of a major university restructure e.g. 3 to 4 years after a restructure.
Some universities seem to restructure every 5 to 7 years as new VCs are appointed. A lot of effort is focused on a university restructure mostly prompted to save cost, become more efficient and innovative. A significant number of staff are made or choose to be made redundant and some corporate knowledge is lost, Yet after the restructure, new staff get re-appointed and generally after 4 or so years staffing numbers are similar to those before the restructure. How effective are restructures and should universities tread carefully before goindg down that track. What key criteria/measures could be used to establish the effectiveness of a major university restructure e.g. 3 to 4 years after a restructure.
Do Canadian Universities have a similar Research Excellence Framework as the UK, NZ, some EU and Australian universities? I have searched for this but have not found a conclusive answer.
What statistical process would I use to establish any differences? The responses were descriptive texts.
Advice for an Early to Mid-Career researcher.
What is the minimum acceptable completion rate for a qualitative web based survey that is emailed (via a link to the survey with an invitation letter) to academic staff in charge of learning and teaching in the same discipline in all universities in the same country? The survey has 6 open ended questions and is estimated to take 15 -20 minutes to complete. Participants have two weeks to complete the survey.
International student spontatenous engagement in group work with local students .
The focus is in universities.
Links to universities that have put in place such an ecosystem would be helpful.
