2006 Carrick Australian Awards for University Teaching
UniSA teaching staff this month receive Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in the 2006 Carrick Australian Awards for University Teaching.
The winners, who receive a $10,000 prize, are:
- Prof Andrew Nafalski, Ms Zorica Nedic, Mr Jan Machotka, Assoc Prof Ozdemir Gol and Assoc Prof Kevin McDermott - for sustained and successful innovation in active and relevant student-centred learning and a marked contribution to the scholarship of education
- Assoc Prof Julie Mills - for outstanding contributions to student equity and diversity and to project-based learning in engineering education
- Dr Martin Shanahan, Dr Jan Meyer, Paul Kershaw and Ken Adams - for sustained excellence in the scholarship of building meta-learning capacity in first-year students and developing their independent learning by enhancing their capacity
- Dr Graham Dodd - for sustained commitment and innovative leadership in the development and implementation of student-centred programs in human movement and physical education
- Dr Kathryn Paige, Dr David Lloyd, Cathryn Hammond and Mike Chartres - for sustained innovation in transdisciplinary approaches to the teaching and learning of science, mathematics and society and environment education to preservice teachers.
- David Morris - for innovative and effective approaches to architectural education through student-centred learning in the design and construction of real building projects
Vice Chancellor Professor Denise Bradley, in congratulating the winners, said, "This is an outstanding achievement and reflects commitment to achieving student teaching and learning outcomes of national importance by all those cited."
