This report details the scoping and development of a proactive support strategy and recommendations to sustain and optimise the quality of teaching and learning in engineering degree programmes in New Zealand.
The project identified that there was a community of practice of over 80 engineering academics. The activities and resulting networking stimulated and contributed to a wide range innovative pedagogical interventions and opportunities for inter-institutional collaboration.
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Background:
An 18-month project, completed in 2013, to bring together engineering education leaders from New Zealand engineering degree-granting institutions to scope and develop a strategy to support sustained improvements in engineering teaching and learning. A collaboration of University of Waikato, University of Auckland, Manukau Institute of Technology and Otago Polytechnic.
Research report prepared by Janis Swan and Elizabeth Godfrey.
Co-funded by the Ako Aotearoa National Project Fund (NPF)