Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) opening keynote:

Why we are failing to prepare scientists and engineers for the 21st century

Professor Ian Lowe, honorary Professor and former Head of the School of Science, Griffith University

1. Winfried Hensinger: pathways to increase problem solving skills, motivation and depth of knowledge in a first year physics course

2. Noel Meyers: Enhancement of student learning through better assessment practices for second year biology students

3. Cheryl Power: Specific Assessment to enhance and measure specific skills

1. Averill Cook: Assessing the use of Flexible Assessment in Quantitative Analysis

2. Lea Bierman: Mediated Action Between Animals

3. Marion Mitchell: Moving from Mission to Action: How a Small Project Team Responded to the Challenge of Moving a Traditional Degree Program into a Web Enhanced Curriculum 1

1. Peter O'Donoghue: Designing a multidisciplinary preclinical subject on the ecology of disease using alignment models

2. Jane Paterso: Nutrition courses offered beyond the classroom for the first time: Lessons learned and future plans

3. Paul Reser: Teaching Social Science in an Integrated Medical Curriculum

1. Ross Guest: Pedagogical Issues in the Teaching of Tertiary Economics

2. Nasir Butrous: Unit Outline and Student Learning: Teachers' Perspective

3. Alison Winkworth: An exploration of apathy and enthusiasm in task-focused groups: implications for task design and supervisor intervention

Featured speaker:

The Many Dimensions of University Teaching

Dr Lloyd Davis, Faculty of Arts, The University of Queensland (winner, Australian Award for University Teaching, 1999)

Learning-in-Context (Lessons from the Undergraduate Site Learning Program)

David Radcliffe, The University of Queensland - organiser

1. Allison Brown: Teaching Inside and Beyond the Classroom: New Opportunities with Flexible Learning

2. Sylvie Tourigny: Building Behavioural Studies: An outcomes-driven degree for result-minded students

3. Peter Green: Effective Flexible Delivery: Some Empirical Evidence

1. John Birks: Refining the Rural Rotation

2. Julie Bradshaw: Team teaching using interactive videoconferencing - Virtual 'chaos'

3. Diane Cheong: Improving medical imaging students' learning of basic concepts in nuclear medicine science by the use of video

1. Kennece Coombe: Enhancing the teaching team with sessional markers

2. Christine Crowe: Interactive lecturing with large classes: teacher development, students' experiences, and performance in assessment

3. Margaret Fletcher: Practising what we preach

1. Diana Drinkwater: Teaching Minerals Education across Boundaries

2. Sylvia Elmes: Questioning in Statistics

3. Shane Bullock: The Games We Play: Learning the Biosciences through the Construction of a Board Game.

1. Jeremy Williams: Assessment in an On-Line Environment: Whither the Examination Hall?

2. John Shepherd: Marks - Incentive to learn or distraction from learning?

3. Matthew Absalom: Using assessment to encourage deep and active learning. Experiences from the teaching of Italian at the ANU.

1. Michael Bulmer: Interactive Concept Maps for Statistics

2. Robina Cummins: Closing the Feedback Loop

3. Terry Freeman: A Review of Applying Effective Teaching in First Year University Physics.

1. Leone Hinton: Learning 'health' using the real world experiences: who am I?

2. Ann Harper: Reflections on an evolving model for a major school-based innovation - a work in progress

3. Daily, Helen: The use of a decision support program to facilitate the teaching of biological principles in the context of agricultural systems

Keynote address:

Taking Higher Education to the People

Professor Susan Bambrick, OBE, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President (Academic), University of Southern Queensland

1. Roseanne Taylor: Learning context and students' perceptions of context influence student learning approaches and outcomes in Animal Science 2

2. Lisa Schubert: Mapping curriculum in nutrition undergraduate courses

3. Lisa Lobry de Bruyn: Is the tail wagging the dog? Evaluating the alignment of assessment tasks with learning goals and approaches

1. Christine Crowe: 'But that's your job!': peer assessment in collaborative learning projects

2. Jenny Simpson: Telling our STORIES of transformation - Bridging the old to the new. What changes are necessary?

3. Alan Holzl: How do we Assess Graduate Attributes?

1. Kaushal Bhuta: The Development of a Clinical Competency Based Assessments Part 2 : Assessing the Assessors

2. Deidre Tronson: Teaching calculations in Chemistry: is it possible?

3. Anne Hollingworth: A Faculty mentor program for first year science students

1. Chris Purcell: Motivating Towards Motivation In Science-Learning

2. Sara Branch: Who will I be when I leave University - the development of professional identity.

3. Sue McIntosh: Curricula and Literacy....The Struggles

Building a First Year Biology Course for 1000 Students

Co-ordinated by Associate Professor Susan Hamilton, UQ

1. Kathryn Gow: The Science of Effective Teaching with Adult Learners

2. Neil Hart, Geoffrey Waugh and Russell Waugh: The role of the lecture in University Teaching

1. Rowan Hollingworth & Catherine McLoughlin: Fostering active learning in science by teaching problem solving strategies / Enhancing the learning of science in first year by developing students' metacognitive skills

2. Alan Holzl: A Strategic Approach to Curriculum Design at the University of Queensland

Featured speaker:

Problem-based learning: Combining Enthusiasm and Excellence

Professor Gabriel Moens, T.C. Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland (winner, Australian Award for University Teaching, 1999)

Alternatives to Problem Based Learning in Health Sciences

1. Gail Woodyatt: Improving on innovation: The evolution of a 1st year subject in speech pathology

2. Glenys Carlson: Using divergent case method to facilitate integration of student learning

3. Rosemary Isles and Robyn Cupitt: Preparing students for clinical practice: Applying Learning in Context

1. Ann Bramwell: Facilitating experiential teaching and learning in a cross cultural organisational communication program with the aid of electronic media : an international project

2. Cec Pedersen: Graduate attributes: using competency profiling as a leadership strategy

3. Peter Skinner: Studio Teaching in Architecture

1. Kaushal Bhuta: The Development and Implementation of a Web-based Clinical Reasoning Tool

2. Ken Rouse: Don't drink the water and don't eat the food: Master of Public Health students prepare to undertake group fieldwork projects overseas

3. Paula Myatt: Towards active learning: replacing content-driven lectures using a constructivist approach"

1. Allan Doring: The use of cartoons as a teaching and learning strategy

2. Terrie Ferman: Students' Feedback on Flexible Learning

3. Tony Foley: Enhancing Student Performance Using Online Discussion

1. Abbas Jamalipour: Effect of Web-Based Materials on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

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1. Monica Moran: The development of work based projects for 2nd year Occupational Therapy students: A winning outcome for students, the university and clinicians

2. Venkatesan Narayanaswam, Margaret Greenway: Effective Teaching Using the Flexible Learning Approach: A Case Study from School of Environmental Engineering, Griffith University.

1. Claire Wade: Supplements to classroom teaching of genetics in veterinary science

2. Lynette McLean: Problem Based Learning experiences with Genetics and Society