Maureen Bell presents Lois Smith with her certificate.

Teachers at the University of Wollongong Dubai Campus are the latest to benefit from a training course aimed at enhancing teaching effectiveness.

English teacher Lois Smith is the first representative from Dubai to graduate from the Introduction to Tertiary Teaching (ITT) course offered by the Centre for Educational Development and Interactive Resources (CEDIR).

Lois completed the course by distance mode and recently travelled to the University of Wollongong to be presented with her ITT certificate. While in Wollongong Lois also received training to teach sections of the course in Dubai. She will now return to Dubai as ITT Liaison for CEDIR.

All academic teaching staff on campus in Dubai will be offered the opportunity to study the course, at no cost, through CEDIR.

ITT coordinator Maureen Bell, a senior lecturer in educational development at CEDIR said that Lois was the 170th graduate of the course, which has been running since 1992.

She said the course provides participants the opportunity to develop their knowledge and skills higher education, both for those new to tertiary education and UOW and to those existing academic staff who might be looking for new ways of thinking about their teaching.

CEDIR facilitates and supports continuous development of high quality teaching and learning practices, products and services for the UOW community.

More information about CEDIR can be found at http://cedir.uow.edu.au/

More information about ITT can be found at http://cedir.uow.edu.au/subjects/education/itt/

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