Learning to fly: Capstones across disciplines

As the culminating experience of a qualification, capstones are increasingly being implemented across institutions in Australia. This presentation will explore the purpose of capstones as part of the final year experience, why they are important to students, and key concepts for capstone design. We will also briefly discuss some of the examples from across the sector, and how they deliver on the ‘capstone’ concept.

The rationale, models and implications of this phenomenon are the topic of a National Senior Teaching Fellowship. The Fellowship aims to develop a clearer picture of the nature of capstone models across the sector, as well as the key themes in the literature.

The OLT Extension Grant: Curriculum Design Principles in the Development of Arts Capstone Units aims to embed at Murdoch the best practise outcomes from two completed OLT projects. The project is lead by Dr James Trotter and Professor Michael Sturma from the School of Arts. 

The Presenter

Dr Nicolette Lee is a National Senior Teaching Fellow, currently working on the topic of Capstones across Disciplines. She is also Associate Professor, Tertiary Education Research at Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. Nicki has a background as a design academic, has designed and taught numerous capstones both discipline-based and interdisciplinary, and led the institutional implementation of capstones across disciplines. She has a background and research interests in higher education curriculum models, particularly final year experience and transition, inquiry, project and problem based approaches as well as learning environment design and evaluation.

The OLT Extension Grant: Curriculum Design Principles in the Development of Arts Capstone Units aims to embed at Murdoch the best practise outcomes from two completed OLT projects at Murdoch. The project is lead by Dr James Trotter and Professor Michael Sturma from the School of Arts. 

More information about Nicolette’s Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) Fellowship is available on the website: http://www.capstonecurriculum.com.au

Please join us for morning tea at 10.30. 

Rsvp to Denyse MacNish .D.Macnish@murdoch.edu.au