Cathryn McCormack BSc(Hons) (ANU), MEd(Adult Education) (UNE)
Cathryn is a Lecturer (Teaching and Learning) in the Teaching and Learning Centre at
Southern Cross University where her work focuses on promoting excellence in teaching and
learning. She has taught and held management roles in adult community education prior to
moving to higher education to work with student feedback and subsequently the ALTC funded
Promoting Excellence Initiative. In the past seven years she has worked in teaching and
learning centres at the University of New England and now Southern Cross University.
Cathryn combines her experience from adult community education with principles of
evidence based practice to promote a scholarly approach to teaching. She uses extrinsic
goals such as preparing grant and award applications, SoTL publications, academic
performance reviews and promotion applications to provide incentives for staff to engage
with a range of support processes directed toward the scholarship of teaching and
learning.
The focus of her doctoral research, commenced in 2011, is on investigating how learning
design can incorporate asynchronous video to promote higher order thinking skills. She
hopes through this to promote a scholarly approach to the use of video in learning design
that go beyond recorded lectures and screencasts.
Expertise:
Preparing teaching awards and grants / Evidencing teaching / Scholarship of teaching and
learning
Conference presentations
Reports
