Teaching for Facilitating Inquisitive Learning

探究性學習

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 Michael Prosser holds Honorary Professorial appointments at the University of Sydney and the University of Hong Kong. Until June, 2011 he was Professor and Executive Director, Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in the University of Hong Kong. His teaching, research and academic development interests are in the field of student learning in higher education, focussing primarily on students’ experiences of learning and its relationship to teachers’ experiences of teaching and research. His teaching experience includes 20 years teaching in first year university physics courses and 15 years teaching in graduate certificates in higher education programs. He has 18 years experience as director of academic development units. He has published widely, including a well cited book analysing much of his early research work with Keith Trigwell, over 90 refereed journal articles and chapters in books, and numerous conference and other publications. He has been a Chief Investigator on 9 Australian Research Council research grants (totalling 26 years of ARC funding) and 1 Hong Kong General Research Fund grant. He has twice been an Editor of the journal Higher Education Research and Development and has been an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology. He is presently an Advisory Editor of BJEP. He has been elected a Life Member of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia for distinguished contributions to teaching and research in higher education and of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning for leadership in the scholarship of teaching and learning, has been Co-President of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, elected by the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts as an ‘Expert of International Standing’ and has been in ISI list of the top 1% of cited authors worldwide in the social science.