Professional Development

During 2022 the Centre for Education and Enhancement reviewed their core offering for Educators (Sessional Staff, New Staff, Subject Coordinators, and Course Coordinators) and identified a significant amount of overlap in what could be considered the core JCU Educator knowledge and capabilities. The team then redeveloped the core offering into a modularised format that also offered more flexibility for new staff ready for deployment in 2023.

The new core offerings are:

• Academic Integrity
• Being an Educator
• The JCU Student Experience

These Short Learning Programs focus on giving you an understanding of

• what is expected of you as an educator at JCU
• an overview of the what the student experience looks like at JCU, how you contribute and what supports are available,
• the importance of Academic Integrity, JCU educative approach and strategies for dealing with potential academic misconduct.

These three Short Learning Programs form part of employment probation requirements.

To register

To register for the Short Learning Programs, please email the the Centre for Education and Enhancement Admin team and request access to the modules.

Once your registration has been finalised, you will be given access to complete the Short Learning Programs accessed via LearnJCU

All staff will automatically be granted access to the Academic Integrity modules in LearnJCU.

Professional Development

The Centre of Education and Enhancement presents information sessions, workshops and symposiums throughout the year supported by a suite of online Short Learning Programs. For more details visit the professional development page on the Centre for Education and Enhancement Website.

Further Information

Please contact the Centre for Education and Enhancement by email for further information.

Length: approximately 1 hour 15 minutes.

Completion Requirements:

To successfully complete this Short Learning Programme, you will need to:

1. Attain 100% on a summative 15 question quiz

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this Short Learning Programme you will be able to:

• Identify academic integrity and explain why it is important
• Define plagiarism and cheating
• Identify your responsibilities in relation to Academic Integrity
• Identify the strategies JCU has in place to support the education of staff and students
• Identify strategies that can help you if you are suspicious academic misconduct has occurred

All staff are automatically enrolled in this module in LearnJCU and it can be found listed under Subjects.

Length: approximately 2 hours.

Completion Requirements:

To successfully complete this Short Learning Programme, you will need to:

1. Attain 75% or higher on a summative 10 question quiz
2. Complete the Short Learning Programme Evaluation Form

Learning outcomes:

On completion of this Short Learning Programme you will be able to:

• Identify the capabilities that JCU expect in their Educators
• List four critically reflective teaching principles
• Identify why Scholarly Activity and Scholarship are important

Register via the Staff Learning Hub
Note: Once logged in select Learning, then Course Catalogue to find the Academic Integrity course, then select the appropriate session and enrol.

Length: approximately 30 minutes.

Completion Requirements:

To successfully complete this Short Learning Programme, you will need to:

1. Attain 75% or higher on a summative 10 question quiz
2. Complete the Short Learning Programme Evaluation Form

Learning outcomes:

On completion of this Short Learning Programme, you should be able to:

1. Identify the student support services at JCU.
2. Describe your responsibilities in relation to student support.
3. Describe how you can support students through feedback.

Register via the Staff Learning Hub
Note: Once logged in select Learning, then Course Catalogue to find the JCU Student Experience course, then select the appropriate session and enrol