This course introduces participants to a range of topics and issues in learning and teaching that impact on the teaching roles of academic staff in universities. The course builds on the introductory workshop series Foundations of University Learning and Teaching offered at UNSW as a staff development activity. Topics such as student and adult learning, reflective practice, planning for classes, large group teaching, small group teaching, online teaching, and assessment are addressed. The workshop sessions are designed to be highly interactive and encourage participants to draw from their own experience as a learner and a teacher, to introduce participants to the research literature in each topic area and to model good teaching practice. Participants also have the opportunity of designing and facilitating a short teaching session. Assessment in the course involves the selection of one area of teaching or learning for special study. Participants then describe their own practice and conduct a literature review in the area, and consider the relevance of the literature to their own practice, possible changes they might make and the issues that these changes would raise.