Prof Raoul Mulder
Contact: r.mulder@unimelb.edu.au
About:
Raoul is a Professor in the School of BioSciences and an active member of BRITE Lab. He provides advice & perspective on educational research and career pathways, drawing on experience in senior academic roles.
Raoul also runs the Mulder Lab – Evolutionary Ecology of Birds
Areas of Expertise in Teaching Practice:
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
- Curriculum design
- Student engagement
- Student peer review
- Evaluation
Educational Research Areas of Interest:
- Curriculum design
- Assessment design
- Student peer review
- E-learning
- Student peer review
Educational Research Projects:
- Characterising approaches to online curriculum delivery during the COVID19 pandemic and their impact on student engagement and perceptions of learning
- Engaging students and staff to build better MCQs
- Evaluating the impact of a university-wide teaching improvement program
- Publications
Educational Research Grants & Awards:
- University of Melbourne Learning and Teaching Initiative (LTI): Assessment of, and for learning: engaging students and staff to build better MCQs.
- MGSE Researcher Development grant: Characterising approaches to online curriculum delivery during the COVID19 pandemic and their impact on student engagement and perceptions of learning.
- Chancellery Academic initiative: A review of high stakes assessments at the University of Melbourne.
- Chancellery Academic initiative: Evaluation of the Flexible Academic Programming (FlexAP) initiative.
- University of Melbourne Learning and Teaching Initiative (LTI): Assessment of, and for learning: engaging students and staff to build better MCQs.
- University of Melbourne Learning and Teaching Initiative (LTI): Development of program suite of online modules and an interactive toolkit to empower students in group work environments.
- University of Melbourne Learning and Teaching Initiative (LTI): Applying immersive technologies to improve learning and the development of key skills in ecology.
- University of Melbourne Learning and Teaching Initiative (LTI): Trialling concept inventories to assess learning outcomes in large first-year classes.
- Office for Learning and Teaching: Completing the loop: returning meaningful learning analytic data to teachers.
Educational Conferences
Presentations/attendance at:
- SABER (Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research)
- ACSME (Australasian Conference for Science and Mathematics Education)
- BEAN (Biosciences Education Action Network)