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Adventurer is keynote speaker at Colloquium
The University of the Sunshine Coast will hold its annual Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Colloquium tomorrow (Wednesday 10 June).
This event helps advance USC’s learning and teaching, provides opportunities for academics to present research into their teaching practice, and allows staff to engage in reflection and collaboration with colleagues.
Keynote speaker will be the University’s new Head of School of Science and Education, Professor Noel Meyers, whose presentation will be about “Epiphanies on learning for excellence”.
Professor Meyers, 43, whose leisure pursuits range from mountaineering to scuba diving, is an author and award-winning educator who made the decision to become an academic after scaling New Zealand’s highest peak, Mount Cook.
He won the Pearson Uniserve Award for “outstanding contributions to science students’ learning” in 2002, and gained one of only seven national Australian Awards for University Teaching in 2004.
Professor Meyers also recently became a Fellow of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia.
The colloquium also will feature a variety of workshops by USC staff, and a presentation by Associate Professor Stephen Lamble, who received the 2009 Vice-Chancellor’s Medal for Outstanding University Teacher in April.
— Terry Walsh