Position: Academic Development Practitioner – Faculty of Accounting & Informatics

Tel: 031 373 5643

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Pedagogics in Arts: 1992 (UKZN)
• Bachelor of Education (Honours): 1994 (UKZN)
• Master’s in Education: 1998 (UKZN)
• Doctor of Education: 2013 (UKZN)
• Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education for Academic Developers: 2015 (Rhodes)

BIOGRAPHY

Rosaline Govender has been working within the field of Academic Development since 2011. Her experience in academic development spans across student, staff and curriculum development. At institutional level, she has served as a member of several task teams including General Education and Siyaphumelela. She was a member of the core team which developed the Cornerstone 101 module (compulsory Institutional General Education module). She is also an accredited facilitator and assessor.

At faculty level, Rosaline serves as the coordinator of the Faculty General Education (FGE) modules and under her leadership four FGE modules were developed and implemented. She also convenes the annual Faculty eLearning Faculty Symposium and is the Coordinator of the Decolonisation and Scholarship of Learning and Teaching (SoTL) Projects in the faculty. She supervises postgraduate students and serves as a reviewer on the Faculty Research Ethics Committee. Rosaline is the present Chairperson of the Gender Forum at DUT and the Secretary of the Institutional Forum. Dr Govender is also the Coordinator of the Learning, Teaching and Assessment in Higher Education module on the PG Dip in HE at DUT. At national level she previously served as the convenor of the HELTASA’s, Professional Development Collaborative Learning Community (PDCLC).

Rosaline is presently the project manager of the HELTASA Professional Learning Project. At an international level she is the convenor of the International Teaching and Learning Collaboration between DUT and Dr.SNS Rajalakshmi College of Arts and Science (India). MShe is also a member of the LCT Centre for Knowledge Building. Rosaline’s research interests include student success, professional learning, teaching and learning, academic development and gender issues.

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