EDQS Development & Recognition

Professional Development & Recognition

The Education Design, Quality and Standards Directorate delivers high-quality professional learning and expert guidance that inspires excellence and innovation in learning, teaching and assessment.

We strive to:

  • Provide learning opportunities and develop skills among educators and teaching support staff
  • Incentivise and celebrate excellence in learning and teaching and student support
  • Provide connections to communities of practice (CoP)
  • Encourage and support scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL)

For further information please vist the EDQS SharePoint

Events include programs, inductions, workshops, ceremonies, celebrations, seminars and webinars that provide learning opportunities that support your teaching and learning practice.

→ List of upcoming PD events

The EDQS Webinars is a library of valuable resources from recent teaching and learning webinars hosted by the Education Design, Quality and Standards (EDQS). Available to JCU staff only.

→ Recorded Webinars

The Education Design, Quality and Standards Directorate have developed three self-directed Short Learning Programmes for new academic staff to complete.

→ Short Learning Programmes

JCU's sessional teaching staff make a significant contribution to the learning experience of our students. EDQS values sessional staff as key members of the teaching team along with each College.

All sessional staff are invited to professional development workshops and events. JCU recognises the contribution of sessional staff and rewards excellence in sessional teaching through the annual Sessional Teaching Awards.

Go to our EDQS SharePoint page --> Welcome to Learning & Teaching at JCU

For more information visit Communities of Practice

As educators, you may have the following questions:

  • How can I engage my students?
  • How can I motivate them to do read?
  • How can I get them to prepare for class?

These notions of 'what we could do', usually follow with hypothesise, experiments, review of the results of our experiments and - hopefully - a sharing of the fruits of our inquiry with others.

This is more or less what the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is. It is the systematic inquiry into student learning with a systematic scholarly approach to contribute knowledge to SoTL literature, a growing research discipline.

→ Learn more about SoTL and join the community

There are a range of teaching awards and citations offered to recognise and celebrate your excellence in learning and teaching and student support.

For further information please vist the EDQS SharePoint

To review previous successful receipients of Teaching Excellence Awards please visit → Grants and Awards

Communities of Practice

Grants & Awards

Professional Development Upcoming Events