Announcement: Innovation and Excellence in HASS Pedagogy

Since 2018, the Faculty of Arts has been working with Dr Thomas Carey on the Innovation Capability Project, an approach to pedagogy that reconsiders the ways in which we engage with students across skills development, the future of work and leadership. This semester we have launched the undergraduate unit: Understanding Workplace Innovation – co-ordinated by Dr. Felix Nobis – which represents the first Arts unit specifically focussed on innovation capability, and equally applicable in workplace settings and in our students’ other roles as community  members and global citizens. The unit is to be offered entirely online, and Dr Carey’s vast experience in the fields of workplace innovation and online learning has been of great value in this time of disruption. Dr Carey continues working with the Faculty of Arts in the capacity of Executive in Residence (Adjunct) throughout 2020.

In his native Canada, Dr Carey was a Professor (Management Sciences), department head and Associate Vice President (PVC) for Learning Resources and Innovation at the University of Waterloo, one of Canada’s U-15 group of research universities. He has also served as Senior Research Director at the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, co-leader of the Workplace Learning research theme in the national Network of Centres of Excellence in Online Learning, and Executive-in-Residence for the British Columbia Association of Institutes and Universities. He is currently Co-Principal Catalyst – Academic Partnerships for the Workplace Innovation Network for Canada.

In the U.S., Dr Carey previously served as a Research Professor at San Diego State University, Senior Partner at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Visiting Senior Scholar at the California State University Office of the Chancellor and Chief Learning Officer for the MERLOT Open Educational Resources Network. In Australia, Dr Carey was a Visiting Scholar from 2016-2019 at the University of Queensland’s Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation.

In his own teaching, Dr Carey was one of the pioneers of Human-Computer Interaction as an interdisciplinary academic discipline in Canada and co-authored the first graduate textbook on this topic.  Dr Carey’s past team leadership roles for innovations in teaching and learning have received awards for excellence in curriculum design, academic staff development, and industry-university cooperation. He has also been recognized for excellence in his research collaborations, including a 15-year partnership with IBM Canada’s Centre for Advanced Studies and cooperative research projects with academic partners in Australia, Brazil, England, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands.

Though the travel restrictions have changed our “in-residence” face-to-face plans this year, we continue to work with Dr Carey remotely on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate offerings and cooperation with workplace partners. Dr Carey welcomes interactions with other educators and researchers across the university and can be reached at Thomas.Carey@monash.edu.