Prof Raoul Mulder

Raoul BRITE

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)