Professor John Dearn is Director of the Centre for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching and Scholarship (CELTS) at the University of Canberra. John has a background in biology and following his education in the UK has held teaching and research positions at the ANU and the University of Melbourne. Since 1984 he has been at the University of Canberra. He has strong interests in all aspects of teaching and learning and has been widely involved in the development of higher education, both within his university and nationally.
At his university he has been Director of the Science Resource Centre (a learning centre for first year science students), a Fellow of the Centre for the Enhancement of Learning, Teaching and Scholarship, Academic Director of the New Student Orientation Program, Chair of the Faculty of Applied Science Education Committee, a member of the Academic Board of the University and Chair of both the University's First Year Experience Committee and the University Teaching Grants Committee.
He was a major writer for both volumes of the national year 11/12 biology textbook (Biology: The Common Threads), has hosted the summer school for the national Australian Biology Olympiad Team for the last five years and was Leader of the highly successful Australian Biology Olympiad Team in 1994 and 1995. John was a member of the national Higher Education Council Review of Distance Education in 1992, a Project Director for the 1992 national Review of Modes of Delivery in Higher Education and was a member of the national selection committee for the Committee for the Advancement of University Teaching 1996 teaching development grants.
In 1994 John was awarded an inaugural National Teaching Fellowship which enabled him to spend three months as a visiting scholar at Harvard University visiting universities and colleges looking at innovative approaches to teaching introductory science courses. In 1997 he was awarded an inaugural Australian Award for University Teaching and in 1998 was appointed to the national Committee for University Teaching and Staff Development.
In 1998 John was appointed Director of CELTS at the University of Canberra where he continues to teach biology as well as playing a major role in policy development related to teaching and learning. He is currently on the national executive of HERDSA, on the editorial board of the international journal Higher Education Research and Development and an auditor for the Australian Universities Quality Agency.
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