UWI/Guardian Life 'Premium' Open Lecture 2005

Feature Speaker: Dr. Keith Trigwell

Topic: Quality Teaching for the 21st Century

Keith Trigwell is Reader in Higher Education and the Principal Research Fellow at the Institute for the Advancement of university Learning at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Kellogg College. He directs the Institute’s learning and teaching research programme which includes investigations into students’ learning experience at Oxford. Previously Director of an academic development unit in Sydney, his research is in qualitative differences in university learning and teaching. In 1999 he and Michael Prosser published Understanding Learning and Teaching: The experience in higher education, a book based on their joint research. His current research includes looking at the relations between qualitative variation in teaching and research, and how teaching outcomes are related to teaching approaches.

Friday 30th September