Associate Professor Janice Orrell is a Director at the newly established Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. Her portfolios are Discipline-based Initiatives and Resource Identification Networks. Formerly, Janice was the Academic Coordinator at Flinders University. Her responsibilities were to assist academics engage in quality teaching and assessment and to support academic organisational units in the enhancement of their academic programs.

Her research fields are assessment in higher education and work-integrated learning, quality assurance in higher education, innovation in education, clinical education and the induction of academics to various aspects of their role, especially teaching and supervision. In 2001 she won the Australian Universities National Award of Excellence for the Flinders Foundation of University Teaching programme she devised for newly appointed academics. Many of the graduates of this programme have gone on to win Flinders University Excellence in teaching awards and Flinders Innovations in Teaching Grants. Her particular interest is forging authentic, generative links between professional organisations and higher education.

Abstact - Discipline-based Educational Development: Challenging Intellectual Histories and Inheritances

This presentation will explore the values and limitations of discipline-based educational development. It will also consider strategies that will encourage the beneficial impact and mitigate the challenges. These are both important issues for the development of the Carrick Institute’s Discipline-based Initiatives and the Resource Identification Network.