The JCU Model

What does this mean for Learning and Teaching?

• Provide students with place-based education in and about the tropics, regions and places
• Enact  connections and collaborations to, with and for communities, industries, and training and research agencies, including consultative or expert panels
• Foster regional and tropics focused partnerships including co-development and co-teaching of courses, subjects and modules

Our research and teaching are closely linked to create a distinctive nexus, thereby enhancing the student experience, and attracting students to pursue higher degrees.

What does this mean for Learning and Teaching?

• Integrate current and relevant discipline - specific research in course, subjects and modules
• Provide opportunities for students to build research and inquiry skills in course, subjects, modules and places
• Engage with the scholarship of learning and teaching to enrich student success

Our students have the opportunity to engage in inclusive curriculum and customise their course of study through campus mobility, technology-enabled delivery and research-linked programs.

What does this mean for Learning and Teaching?

• Valuing voice and diversity in our student populations
• Foster supportive, inclusive and equitable student experience and wellbeing
• Provide connections through peer-to-peer support opportunities and recognise leadership
• Prioritise active learning activities and authentic assessment that enables students to demonstrate appropriate knowledge, skills and application
• Use data to inform course, subject and module design and enhance the student experience

Our teaching links to community aspirations, giving students the opportunity to become involved in projects that provide tangible benefits to tropical communities.

What does this mean for Learning and Teaching?

• Build transferable skills cumulatively across subjects, modules, placements/fieldwork, and courses
• Provide work integrated learning opportunities within courses through student placements (including simulated placements) and/or authentic projects associated with the world of work
• Embed career development learning within courses that is designed to prepare students for the rapidly changing world of work, and lifelong learning

Our teaching integrates international perspectives, and we maintain relationships with our students and graduates through international alumni networks.

What does this mean for Learning and Teaching?

• Integrate international perspectives and experiences in learning and student life activities
• Encourage student mobility
• Promote interactions amongst students from different cultural backgrounds to support a sense of belonging

Our students gain a knowledge and understanding of the importance of culture to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and other Indigenous people living in the Tropics.

What does this mean for Learning and Teaching?

• Design activities to learn about Indigenous people as a People of Place, Knowledge and Science
• Provide opportunities to develop capacities to navigate complexities of the interface between Indigenous people and Western disciplines, knowledge and practice
• Cultivate experiences that foster inter-cultural learning, sustainable and ethical practices that promote global connection