PSYC4191 Improving Human Performance
Professor Mark Horswill
School of Psychology
Course overview
- Workshop
- Level: undergraduate, fourth year/honours
- Size: medium class – approximately 80 students
PSYC4191 is a fourth year elective in psychology, covering strategies for improving human performance both via training/education and via system design.
Teaching tools and techniques
- Keywords: blended learning–Activelearn–question-focussed–interactive demonstrations–weekly quizzes
My approach includes a number of innovations designed to both reduce fail rates to zero and increase student performance and employability. It has resulted in higher grades, high SECaTS, near capacity attendance, as well as excellent student engagement.
Lecturer's biography
Professor Mark Horswill won the Australian University Teacher of the Year Award 2019 and the international Edx MOOC of the Year 2018 for the UQx course, Crime101x (both awards with Blake McKimmie and Barbara Masser). This course also won the Reimagine Education Star Awards 2018 (Bronze, Social Sciences) and the 2016 Merlot Classics Award.
Professor Horswill was voted 3rd and 5th in the UQ lecturer of the year contest run by Unijobs.com.au in 2009 and 2008. He has won the UQ award for teaching excellence (individual 2009; group 2016). He is a HEA fellow.
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