Top teaching a hot topic at showcase

Edward O'Daly

7 November 2006:The University's Carrick Citation recipients were formally recognised at last week's Teaching for Learning Showcase.

The award winners, together with Carrick Grant recipient Rob Fitzgerald and Australian Council of University Art & Design Schools Distinguished Teaching Award winner Eugenie Keefer Bell, were acknowledged by Vice-Chancellor Roger Dean at the event, organised by the University's Centre for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching and Scholarship.

The University's Carrick Citation winners Row (l-r): Dr Joe Murik, Prof. Tony Shaddock, (Prof. Yoni Ryan – CELTS), Assoc. Prof. Anne Campbell, Mr Tony Spinks Front Row (l-r): Mr Gary Woolley, Ms Jenny Coggins, Dr Christine Kilham, Mr Bruce Lines, Dr Nancy FitzSimmons Absent: Mr David Formica

"We are very proud of the quality of our teaching and learning," Professor Dean said.

The event covered areas of teaching including e-learning, cross-disciplinary teaching and stage fright and attracted visitors from Canberra's other tertiary institutions.

"We like to be part of a wider community of teaching and learning as well as our own internal one," Professor Dean added.

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