Mark Freeman
BA(Economics) MEc Macq.,CA ACIS
Director, Accreditation
mark.freeman@sydney.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 9036 5030
Fax: +61 2 9351 6620
Mark Freeman has been active in leading student-centred learning programs of innovation within higher education and professional practice. Prior to joining the University of Sydney, Mark held various academic positions in finance and work-based learning at the University of Technology Sydney. He also spent several years in industry working for The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia on the Australasia-wide postgraduate professional accounting program. Mark has received multiple awards for excellence in teaching from University of Technology Sydney, the accounting and educational technology professions, and the Australian government. His research and innovation now primarily relate to learning and assessment.
Since coming to the University of Sydney, Mark has been establishing the strategic vision for the Learning and Teaching in Business and establishing the foundations for supporting the Business School to achieve its mission as a leading learning community. This has included consolidating and building upon the various existing learning and teaching initiatives that have been recently started, sourcing funding for the new programs and actively engaging across the Business School and in collaboration with other stakeholders within the University to develop evidence-based learning and teaching practice. He is responsible for a range of programs and projects within the Faculty including ICT in teaching and learning; a range of mentoring programs for students and staff; and leads a number of projects including mentoring and leadership for academic staff and academic honesty for students. He also provides leadership to Learning and Teaching in Business to ensure the outcomes for the learning and teaching programs (eg. student peer mentoring program; academic e-learning program) and projects for which they are responsible are strategically integrated, provide benefits of a preventative nature where possible, and are evidence-based in conception, implementation and improvement.
Mark provides Business School leadership in various capacities (eg. Associate Dean Learning and Teaching Committee, Chair Faculty Learning and Teaching Committee) and is active on Executive Committee, IT Steering Committee and Undergraduate and Graduate Studies Boards. He represents the Faculty on various university forums such as University Learning and Teaching Committee, ICT strategic working group, Research-led Teaching strategic working group and E-Learning Review Group.
Mark was the inaugural chair of the Australian Business Dean's Council (ABDC) Teaching and Learning Network and is now on the Executive. From 2009 he was appointed the inaugural Discipline Scholar leading the Learning Networks strategy for Business, Management and Economics for the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. In that role he is facilitating business disciplines setting academic standards. His current interest is in the promotion of collaboration and benchmarking of learning and teaching with other economics and business faculties in research-intensive universities.