Tulsa Andrews

Position: Manager, Learning Design and Teaching Quality

Location: U204, Level 2 (Top Floor), Albert Coates Complex, Mt Helen

Phone: (03) 5327 9654

Qualifications:

Master of Education (Monash University) 2000
Certificate II in Information Technology (University of Ballarat) 2000
Graduate Diploma of Health (Community Health) (Monash University) 1996
Bachelor of Nursing (Deakin University) 1990

Biography

Tulsa has an extensive teaching career working within the learning and teaching domain for over 20 years. Her teaching experience spans from patient education in a hospital setting (as paediatric nurse for 8 years), health education of primary and secondary students, parent education programs, staff professional development (as Manager of the School Nursing Program with the Victorian Department of Education – 12 years), and tertiary undergraduate and postgraduate courses in learning and teaching (6+ years).

Tulsa currently works in the Centre for Teaching Innovation and Quality. As a current manager of a team of lecturing staff and learning designers, she oversees the planning, creation, facilitation and evaluation of a range of professional development resources and courses to support the professional integrity of learning and teaching practices of academic staff. This also includes the objective of increasing engagement of academic staff with the scholarship of learning and teaching across the University.

Tulsa also has the role of Program Coordination of the Graduate Certificate of Education (Tertiary Teaching), teaching in award courses and non-award courses and facilitates a string of blended professional development workshops.

Publications

Andrews, T. & Cole, C. (2015) Two steps forward, one step back: The intricacies in engaging with ePortfolios in nursing undergraduate education. Nurse Education Today, Vol.35(4),pp.568-572

Awards

VC Award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (Early Career) – 2016 – For strengthening the pedagogical integrity of learning and teaching practices of academic staff through the provision of innovative and flexible professional development opportunities and resources.
VC Award for Excellence (Innovation) – 2014 – Awarded with colleague Chris Brown, for demonstrating excellence in adopting, and inviting other staff to adopt, eLearning strategies in their teaching, and establishing productive relationships by working closely with academics to advance and implement new learning and teaching strategies for transitioning towards a blended model of delivery.