Journal aims to address gap in higher education sector

Aug 13, 2004

There is growing acknowledgement that teaching and learning at university has changed dramatically over the past 20 years.

Students entering university now come from a much broader range of backgrounds. Many have to work to support their study and all are expected to develop lifelong learning skills.

University teachers have had to cope with these changes by developing a range of teaching skills that encompass supporting diversity, flexible methods of delivery and more varied approaches to assessment.

A search of journal titles worldwide could not identify a publication that covers learning and teaching practice at a university level. There has been an assumption that the well-developed principles that underpin school-based education could be applied to university education. However, for most practitioners their experience has shown that they have had to develop new approaches to teaching and learning because of the incredible changes that have taken place in the higher education sector.

A new publication, the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice (JUTLP) is an attempt to address this gap in publications in the higher education sector.

The first issue covers a range of issues and contains all University of Wollongong based authors, even though the board and reviewers are spread throughout the world. In future editions submissions will be encouraged from authors based at any higher education institution in the world. The second edition will have the theme "Assessment Matters" and the third edition will centre on "Indigenous Issues".

Launch date and time: Monday 16 August at 4pm.

Venue: Foyer of the McKinnon Building (Bldg 67), University of Wollongong. The Senior Editor is Helen Carter at Helen.Carter@newcastle.edu.au or phone (02) 4921 2090.

General enquiries to the Journal's Production Editor: Helen Brooks, Helen_Brooks@uow.edu.au or phone (02) 4221 5659.

For more information, contact:

media@uow.edu.au
University of Wollongong
Ph: (02) 4221 5942; fax (02) 4221 3128