Conference information

The conference is aimed at all university teaching staff. The aim is to present issues, opportunities and challenges faced by teachers in Australian universities.

• Keynote speakers
• Featured speakers
• Streams
• Poster/exhibition area
• Conference website
• Key dates
• Conference dinner
• More information

Keynote Speakers

There are two excellent keynote speakers.

Professor Ian Lowe. Why we are failing to prepare scientists and engineers for the 21st Century. Ian Lowe, honorary professor at Griffith University, and former Head of the School of Science, is a former Director of the Commission for the Future. His contributions were recognised by the Queensland Premier¯s Millennium Award for Excellence in Science. He has been writing about the need to reform science and technology education for more than 25 years. He is a provocative and stimulating speaker.

Professor Susan Bambrick. Taking Higher Education to the People Professor Bambrick, OBE, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at the University of Southern Queensland, has had a long and distinguished career in the areas of economics and economics education. She has has been involved in establishing and fostering regional campuses in universities in three Australian states, and shares the strategies which she has found successful in ensuring quality individual outcomes within a constrained institutional budget. She has worked at a high level for both State and Commonwealth Governments and has held a number of senior positions in Australian tertiary institutions.

Featured Speakers

Five staff from the University of Queensland have received Australian Awards for University Teaching. In 1999 Professor Gabriel Moens from the T.C. Beirne School of Law and Dr Lloyd Davis from the Department of English earned these awards. Both Professor Moens and Dr Davis will speak on aspects of their teaching.

Dr Lloyd Davis. The Many Dimensions of University Teaching.

Professor Gabriel Moens. Problem-based learning: Combining Enthusiasm and Excellence.

Streams

There will be two streams at the conference. One will focus on education in science-based subjects at university and the other on university education more generally. Papers in both streams will be of interest to all university teaching staff, and participants will not be restricted to one stream, but be able to attend sessions in each.

There are over eighty contributed papers and posters from academics throughout Australia and overseas. The papers address areas and issues such as:

• assessment which promotes learning
• problem-based learning
• helping students learn from lectures
• issues in teaching in specific disciplines (for example, Genetics, Statistics, Biological Sciences)
• promoting active learning in the classroom, and
• learning using information and communications technologies

There are two commissioned sessions in the science stream:

• Learning in context, about a successful collaborative teaching program with industry, will be organised by Associate Professor David Radcliffe, Mechanical Engineering Department, The University of Queensland and a former CUTSD Fellow.
• Teaching in first year biological sciences will be organised by the First Year Biology Teaching Team, one of the University of Queensland's nominees for the Australian Awards in University Teaching for 2000.

Poster / exhibition area

Conference website

This site will change as the conference approaches. Eventually it will include the conference program and proceedings. Abstracts of proposal which have been accepted will be posted on the website shortly after acceptance. Full papers will be posted on the website from mid-October. A summary of key dates appears below.

Key Dates

Conference Dinner

The conference dinner will be held at Petrie Mansions, a high quality Brisbane restaurant in two beautifully restored terrace houses located quite close to the central business district. The conference dinner will be a very informal affair. Its purpose is to help delegates to relax after a hard day at the conference and to meet other university staff who have a strong interest on teaching.

Bookings for the dinner should be made at the same time as you register . You will register either for the conference only or for the conference and dinner.

More information

The conference is organised by The Teaching and Educational Development Institute of The University of Queensland (TEDI):

Phone: 07 3365 1728
Fax: 07 3365 1966

For information about the conference please contact:

Geoff Isaacs

Phone: 07 336 53089
Fax: 07 336 51966

For administrative information about the conference please contact:

Monique Atwell

Phone: 07 336 53019
Fax: 07 336 51966