Caroline Cottman

TL;DR: In the rapidly changing global higher education sector, greater attention is being paid to the quality of university teaching However, academics have traditionally not received formal teacher training The peer-assisted teaching programme reported on in this paper provides a structured yet flexible approach for peers to assist each other in reinvigorating and refining their teaching practice.

TL;DR: An assessment of how effectively distributed leadership was enabled at five Australian institutions implementing a collaborative teaching quality development scheme called the Peer Assisted Teaching Scheme found that the Scheme is highly consistent with the distributed leadership benchmarks.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of peer observation of teaching undertaken at Australian universities demonstrates that observation instruments and protocols typically do not explicitly afford alignment of peers' observations with teachers' developmental goals.

TL;DR: In this paper, the challenges to ensuring teaching quality in higher education give ongoing impetus to invest in teaching quality improvement, while a significant body of literature has recognised challenges faced by higher education.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the role of the SMART goal-setting framework in the Peer Assisted Teaching Scheme (PATS) and found that the proposed strategy can align with a variety of educational areas yet many were underdeveloped, or misaligned with the suggested strategy.