Dr. Meg Colasante
Details
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Department: Learning & Teaching
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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meg.colasante@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID:
0000-0003-4583-2858
About
After years working in academic development, curriculum design, and SoTL management in RMIT's STEM College (followed by various academic development and teaching/research roles at other universities, including teaching the Graduate Certificate in Higher Education - Learning and Teaching), Meg returned to RMIT to work in the College of Business and Law (CoBL). Initially a sessional lecturer to teach Business Research Design in the MBA, now Meg is back based in CoBL's Learning, Teaching and Quality portfolio, teaching and coordinating undergraduate work-integrated learning (WIL) courses and leading a SoTL capacity building project.
Research fields
- 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy
- 3903 Education systems
- 3904 Specialist studies in education
Teaching interests
Key Teaching Activities
• BUSM2543 Developing Professionally (Course Coordinator and teacher) (Semesters 1 and 2)
• BUSM4823 Business Research Lab (currently in design for delivery in 2026, this course will have both generative AI and social impact themes intentionally desinged into the course, for student professional development in these areas as well as research techniques)
• Recently taught into BUSM2623 Impact Academy and various Undergraduate and Postgraduate Business Internships.
Dr Colasante's research has largely focussed on tertiary teaching and learning, especially towards innovations that improve student experiences involving curriculum design and/or educational technology. More recently, research interests also include university teachers as learners and agents for change within the higher education workplace (using cultural-historical activity theory).
PhD topic: Co-constructing digital teaching practice in higher education: An activity theory perspective.
PhD supervision areas: Higher education teaching and learning foci, e.g., innovative teaching practices with or without educational technologies (such as incorporating into the curriculum Indigenous perspectives, genAI, ungraded assessment), university teacher workplace practices and/or managing workplace change.
Meg has a particular interest in examining higher education teaching practices through the theoretical lens of cultural-historical activity theory.
Methodological expertise areas: activity theory (including Change Laboratory), case study research (single/pilot or multiple), educational design research, ethnography.
Research interests
Dr Colasante's research has largely focussed on tertiary teaching and learning, especially towards innovations that improve student experiences involving curriculum design and/or educational technology. More recently, research interests also include university teachers as learners and agents for change within the higher education workplace (using cultural-historical activity theory).
PhD topic: Co-constructing digital teaching practice in higher education: An activity theory perspective.
PhD supervision areas: Higher education teaching and learning foci, e.g., innovative teaching practices with or without educational technologies (such as incorporating into the curriculum Indigenous perspectives, genAI, ungraded assessment), university teacher workplace practices and/or managing workplace change.
Meg has a particular interest in examining higher education teaching practices through the theoretical lens of cultural-historical activity theory.
Methodological expertise areas: activity theory (including Change Laboratory), case study research (single/pilot or multiple), educational design research, ethnography.
