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Quality Conversations

Proceedings of the 2002 Annual International Conference of the
Higher Education Research and Development
Society of Australasia (HERDSA)

Edited by

Allan Goody
Jan Herrington
Maria Northcote

7 - 10 July, Perth, Western Australia

Proceedings of the 2002 Annual International Conference of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA)

Published 2002 by the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia, Inc,
P O Box 516
Jamison Centre
ACT 2614
Phone: +61 2 6253 4242, Fax: +61 2 6253 4246
Website: http://www.herdsa.org.au/
Email: office@herdsa.org.au

ISSN 1441 001X
ISBN 0 908557 52 3 [online]

© HERDSA 2002 and authors
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Please cite papers as, for example:

Reeves, T. C. (2002). The future of academic staff: Visions of tertiary teaching in the 21st century. In A. Goody, J. Herrington & M. Northcote (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2002 Annual International Conference of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA), Perth, Australia. [Online conference proceedings]. Available: http://www.herdsa.org.au/publications/.

Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia

 

Welcome

Welcome to the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia's Annual Conference on this its 30th Anniversary. And a special welcome to new and international members who are making their first visit to Perth, Western Australia.

The theme of this year's conference is Quality Conversations. This theme was chosen to reflect our society's continual endeavour to improve the quality of teaching and learning in tertiary and higher education and also to highlight the process of engagement that we hope will occur between delegates in each of the conference sessions.

Our Keynote speakers have international reputations that qualify them to reflect on significant aspects of the conference theme. David Woodhouse will discuss the processes enacted to audit the quality of Australian universities. Pat O'Shane will consider the quality of indigenous higher education and Tom Reeves will provide insights on the future of teaching and learning.

At this year's conference a number of awards will be presented. These awards will be announced during the final session of the conference and include the HERDSA Prize for the Best Paper by a New Researcher and the Edith Cowan University 2002 Centenary Prize for the best paper on an Authentic Learning Environment. In addition, Best Paper Awards will be given based on the outcomes of peer reviews and evaluations of presentations.

The success of this year's conference reflects the dedicated work of the conference committee members: Heather Sparrow, Bruce Bott, Alison Bunker, Rod Ellis, Allan Goody, Barbara Johnson and the conference management team from Debrett's: Lucy Robertson, Shelley Clark and Jane Longton. And a special thank you to many other helpers who have given their time and expertise to make this a memorable event.

As well as the range of academic pursuits at the conference, please take advantage of the many social events that are on offer. We hope the conference will meet your expectations and that you leave Perth as you would leave a quality conversation-with lots to think about, enthusiasm to act and friendships to build upon.

 

Tony Herrington
Conference Convenor

Preface

The Proceedings of the 2002 Annual International Conference of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) contain the keynote papers, refereed and non-refereed papers and abstracts for those posters, workshop and roundtable presentations where papers were not submitted.

All delegates to the HERDSA 2002 conference had the opportunity to submit a full paper for refereeing through a double blind peer-review process and upon acceptance, be published in Research and Development in Higher Education, Volume 25, the refereed publication of the annual HERDSA conference. Delegates could also choose to submit an abstract for a presentation as a roundtable, workshop or poster and upon acceptance, submit a paper for publishing in the online conference proceedings. The refereed papers were submitted following strict formatting guidelines and have been subject to some editing. The non-refereed papers were also submitted following format guidelines. However, in most instances we have published the papers as submitted by the authors with only minor changes to format and style.

The Proceedings of the 2002 Annual International Conference of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) is only available online. The refereed papers are also published as Research and Development in Higher Education, Volume 25, Quality Conversations which is available in CD-ROM, print and online formats.

The papers have the underlying theme of quality yet are wide ranging in their focus. They reflect current research and practice in higher education internationally. We thank all the authors for their contributions to Quality Conversations. We encourage you to engage with these Quality Conversations and discover the extent of the quality research and practice that is occurring in our institutions of higher education.

 

 

Allan Goody, Jan Herrington and Maria Northcote
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