On 20 February, Prof. Tara Brabazon, Dean of Graduate Research from Flinders University in Australia, gave a presentation entitled ‘4D: Revisioning the Doctorate’. The workshop attracted almost 40 academic staff members.

During her lecture, Prof. Tara shared how the 4D model would work on PhD supervision; the four Ds are Digitization, Deterritorialization, Disintermediation and Diversity. She also urged academic members to think about the current design and management of higher degree programmes.

In addition, she analyzed the different challenges of PhD completion, such as independence of students, region of study, course standard. She also explained the deficit model of teaching and learning, as well as how to work with supervisors’ expectation and students’ motivation. [Download PPT here]

澳門大學教與學優化中心在2月20日邀請了澳洲弗林德斯大學研究院院長Tara Brabazon教授以“4D：重新調整博士生課程”為題進行演講。本次工作坊共吸引近40位教學人員出席。

講座中，Tara教授分享了她的4D模式如何在博士學位數碼化，去地域化，去中介化和多樣性方面發揮作用，她還激勵澳大教學人員思考博士課程的發展。

此外，她還分析了學生完成博士學位面對的不同挑戰，例如學生的獨立性、學習區域和課程標準，還解釋了教與學的不足論模式，以及如何平衡指導老師的期望與學生的學習動力。