Past Events
| 2011 Events |
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Professor David Boud
Creating Sustainable Assessment for Long-term Learning
Assessment tasks shape what students regard as important, how they study and what they learn. They equip students with the knowledge, skills and dispositions they carry with them well beyond the end of their courses.
Professor Boud's Keynote covered the following questions: 'How can assessment be designed to not only contribute to current learning and the needs of certification, but to also have a positive influence on learning beyond the course?' 'How can we ensure that assessment is integral to learning and not just a bolt-on to the curriculum?'
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- 9 November, 2011
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Dr Ale Armellini presents Carpe Diem overview & Learning Innovation and Embedding Change
This presentation consited of two workshops:
1. Carpe Diem: Designing for learning in the 21st Century
2. Strategies for implementing learning innovation
- Date:
- 27 July, 2011
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| 2010 Events |
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ALTAR Symposium
"Language in the disciplines: Disciplinary discourses and the embedding of academic literacy skills within programs."
The Symposium consisted of a series of papers covering, but not limited to, the following issues:
- What is distinctive about the discourse of a specific discipline (or disciplines)?
- How are disciplinary discourses changing?
- What specific challenges are there for students from EAL backgrounds?
- What efforts are being made at Swinburne to embed the teaching of academic literacy skills within an academic program?
- What is the relationship between the academic discourse students learn on their courses and the type of professional discourses they will need in the workplace once they graduate?
- Date:
- 24 November, 2010
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Professor Gilly Salmon
E-moderating and the 5 stage model
In this workshop Professor Gilly Salmon introduced a model for scaffolding and pacing online with groups, using avaliable technologies, with a wide range of examples.
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- 18 November, 2010
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Associate Professor Kay Martinez
Higher Education Learning & Teaching Professional Development Event Series
This three-day, multi campus program was designed to target the needs of sessional staff, early career academics and those interested in developing a research profile in the Scholarship of Learning and Teaching (SoTL). The program included a keynote address available to all staff in Swinburne Higher Education; learning and teaching workshops at Hawthorn and Prahran and individual research consultancies.
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- 15-17 November, 2010
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Professor Betty Leask
Internationalisation of the Curriculum Seminar: What is it? How can we 'do it'? What is my role?
Betty's presentation featured an exploration into the meaning of ‘internationalisation of the curriculum’, a discussion of tools that have been developed to assist both academic and professional staff to interpret and enact internationalisation of the curriculum, and a highlighting of questions for consideration by those who want to become more involved
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- 4-5 August, 2010
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Professor Larry Michaelsen
Team-Based Learning (TBL) Seminar: An In-Class Strategy for Going Beyond Covering Content
Professor Larry Michaelson delivered a seminar on Team based learning (TBL), an instructional strategy that is based on procedures for developing high performing learning teams that can dramatically enhance the quality of student learning - in almost any course. TBL refocuses a lecture from the lecturer conveying concepts to the student groups' application of key concepts.
- Date: 17 March, 2010
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Professor Barbara A. Holland & Associate Professor Judy Nagy
Leading Through Teaching: Convenors and Coordinators as Academic Leaders in times of change
Attendees had the opportunity to participate in workshops designed to share best practice and provide practical strategies in line with the following themes:
- The challenges and opportunities posed by multiple unit convening
- Capacity building, mentoring and managing teaching teams for large units
- How best to support and recognise leadership at Convenor and Coordinator level within academic career paths at Swinburne including the performance review and academic promotions processes
- Using student feedback survey data to influence positive change in teaching quality
- The scholarship of academic leadership
To explore these themes, the following prestigious keynote speakers presented:
- Professor Barbara A. Holland (Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Western Sydney). Barbara is recognised internationally for her expertise on organisational change.
- Associate Professor Judy Nagy (Deputy Director of Deakin University Higher Education Research Group). Judy is an ALTC Citation and Teaching Excellence award winner.
- Date: 16 February, 2010
| 2009 Events |
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Catherine McLoughlin
Developing a Publication Strategy to increase teaching scholarship output
These workshops addressed various topics including:
- Strategies for novice and early career academics to increase your teaching scholarship output
- Strategies for those who want to publish more
- An insight into the procedures involved in getting published.
Catherine was invited to speak based on her experiences in encouraging staff to engage in the scholarship of teaching leading to writing for publication.
The workshops were open to academics from all faculties interested in developing a publication strategy to increase their teaching scholarship output.- Date:
- 5-6 November, 2009
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Marnie Hughes Warrington & Stephen Barkoczy
Making learning more effective, realistic & engaging
SPL and HERG were delighted to host the 2008 recipients of the Prime Minister’s Teaching Award: Associate Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington and Professor Stephen Barkoczy. Marnie and Stephen shared their expertise in scholarship and practice-led teaching. They discussed how they make learning a successful experience that is real and engaging for their students.
- Date:
- 28 July, 2009
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Geoff Crisp
Interactive e-Assessment: more than just multiplechoice
These sessions explored some of the opportunities afforded by online assessment to improve student outcomes and the quality of the assessment tasks. The work is based on the ALTC Associate Fellowship project. The aim of the project is to assist teachers to move beyond simple multiple choice questions in an online environment to provide much richer, authentic and meaningful assessment tasks for students.
The seminar provided an overview of the project discussing the affordances of online assessment and project outcomes and allow time for questions.
The workshop provided an opportunity for participants to design some formative and summative e-assessments using e-assessment design principles and disciplinary examples for higher education academic staff.- Date:
- 20 -21 May, 2009
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Professor Sally Kift
First Year Curriculum Design & transition pedagogy | Engaging and Supporting First Year Students
Professor Sally Kift is a Professor of Law at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia (QUT). Over 2006‐2007, she was seconded to the QUT Chancellery as the institution’s Director, First Year Experience. From 2001‐2006, she served as Assistant Dean, Teaching & Learning in the QUT Faculty of Law. She has published widely on legal education, criminal law and student transition and engagement, and has received numerous national and international invitations to speak on issues relating to transition and the first year experience, on curriculum design to embed and assess graduate attributes, and on the current state of legal education.
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Professor Geoff Scott
Academic Leadership Towards Swinburne 2015
Targeted discussions were held on 'Implications for academic leadership roles at Swinburne', which contributed to a final forum discussion lead by Professors Dale Murphy, Geoff Scott and Ian Young on 'How do we get from here to Swinburne 2015?'
- Date:
- 9 February, 2009
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| 2008 Events |
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Professor Lee Harvey
Professional Skills: Designing Learning in and for the Workplace
Professor Harvey is currently visiting Australia as a guest of the Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN) and is the keynote presenter at the WACE/ ACEN Asia Pacific Conference being held at Manley in early October. While in Australia he has kindly agreed to visit Swinburne to deliver a variety of guest lectures and workshops.
- Date:
- 15 October, 2008
| 2007 Events |
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Professional Learning Showcase-Projects, Placements, Predicaments
The Cooperative Education Office, together with the Final Year Experience team, hosted a showcase of Swinburne professional learning.
Each Faculty (and NICA) was represented in three streams of showcase sessions, entitled ‘projects’, ‘placements’ and ‘predicaments’. These streams included ideas and experiences from staff (and students) involved in group and individual project units, cooperative education innovations from the faculties, and presenters from around the university discussing the wider issues involved in managing learning innovations, including ethics and careers. The showcase will provide a vital network of contacts, ideas and information for anyone involved or interested in the management of educational innovations, including project units and work-integrated learning.- Date:
- 14 December, 2007
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Cheryl Paten
The first ADS Swinburne Learning & Teaching Showcase provided an opportunity for Higher Education staff to celebrate, share and be inspired by the work of their colleagues. Academic Development & Support aimed to cultivate a learning community and provide opportunity for staff to reflect on their teaching, to talk with like-minded colleagues and focus on important issues that impact upon student learning across all faculties and academic units.
Learning to inspire, inspiring to learn-Learning & Teaching Showcase- Date:
- 29 May, 2007
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