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Day 1 program
Day 2 program
List of poster presentations


Day 1 Monday 1 November


Time:
Day 1 - Session A:
Day 1 - Session B:
8:30am - 9:00am
Coffee on arrival

9:00am - 9:15am
Housekeeping and introductions

9:15am - 9.45am
Opening of conference: Professor Wayne Robinson, Chair, University of Queensland Teaching & Learning Committee

9.45am - 10.25am
Opening keynote - Giving Voice to Learning
Professor Gail Hart, Director, Teaching and Learning Support Services, Queensland University of Technology
10:25am - 10:55am
Morning tea - View Posters
10:55am - 11:55am
Reflective curriculum design
  • Jolly – Challenging hegemony
  • MacKinlay – A music and dance curriculum - ethnomusicological perspective
  • Bulmer – Introductory statistics with a qualitative emphasis
The big picture
  • McSwan & Store – Offshore delivery of a research MEd
  • Reed – Learning environment simulation in the real world
  • Smith & Robinson – Continuous curriculum review: a stimulus for rapid change

12.00 - 12:40pm
Practice for reflection
  • Riley – Using e-mail networks to include experts
  • Ung – Dynamics of small group teaching
  • Littleboy – Drafting multiple choice questions
Large classes
  • Playford, Miller & Kelly – Peer Assisted Study Programs
  • Slaughter – Hierarchical tutor structure for a large subject
12:40pm - 1:40pm
Lunch
1:40pm - 2:20pm
Afternoon keynote – Ten lessons from ten years teaching at the University of Queensland
Associate Professor Doune Macdonald, Department of Human Movement Studies, The University of Queensland (winner, australian Award for University Teaching, 1998)

2:25pm - 3:25pm
Papers
  • Hoven – Computer assisted language learning effectiveness
  • Anderson & Ramsay – We can do more than I - collaborative learning groups
  • Bingham & Doring – Supporting self-regulatory behaviour in tertiary students
Developing staff skills
  • Schubert, Paterson, Lund-Adams, Marks & Andrews – Learning to learn about flexible delivery
  • Leask, Medlin & Feast – Improving outcomes for graduates
  • Page & Ferman – Developing a study guide as a tool for professional development
3.25pm - 3:55pm
Afternoon tea - View Posters
3:55pm - 4:55
Papers
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  • Andrews – Extending learning opportunities - videoconferencing
  • Bhuta & Dickinson– Development of a competency based assessment in chiropractic
Papers
  • Trivett, Skillen, Rodgerson, Robinson & Russell – Integrating generic and discipline specific skills into 1st year biology
  • Fisher – Academic workloads and assessment
  • Penn Edwards – Analysis of a university subject in terms of learning styles

 

Day 2 Tuesday 2 November


Time: Day 2 - Session A: Day 2 - Session B:
8:30am - 9:00am
Coffee on arrival

9:00am - 9:10am
Housekeeping

9:10am - 9:50am
Morning keynote - Re/membering the Effective Teacher
Associate Professor Erica McWilliam, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology

9:55am - 10:55am
Discussion on and off line
  • Jolly – Challenging hegemony
  • MacKinnon – The multiple functions of silence in teaching and learning
  • Doherty – Are e-tutorials anti-intellectual?
  • Hanson, Whitehouse & Tow – Introducing enhanced case study teaching in international relations
Teaching
  • Duhs – Reflections on practice in the teaching of economics
  • Gurgenci – Teaching the practice of mechatronics
  • Butrous – Unit outline and student learning
10:55am - 11:25am
Morning tea - View Posters
11:30am - 12:30pm
Flexible learning: flexible delivery
  • Green & Lamb – Effective flexible delivery: some lessons learnt
  • Holzl & Drennan – Southern Brakes and Plastics: best theory into best practice
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Subject and curriculum design
  • Bourgeois – A hands-on approach for teaching engineering principles
  • Longstaff & Schultz – Project management - for electrical engineers
  • Sutton & Williams – Improving a subject through integration
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm - 2:10pm
Afternoon keynote – Education of professionals: is there a role for a competency-based approach?
Associate Professor Laurence J Walsh, School of Dentistry, The University of Queensland (winner, Australian Award for University Teaching, 1998)

2:15pm - 2:35pm
Melbourne Cup

2:35pm - 3:35pm
Symposium
  • Cumming – Symposium: Using WebCT for online educational environments
Assessment
  • Williams – Flexible assessment for flexible delivery
  • Black – Assessable group work for first year law students
  • Freeman – Implementing effective teaching strategies in senior physics
3:35pm - 4:05pm
Afternoon tea - View Posters
4:05pm - 4:50pm
Concluding symposium and questions

 

Poster presentations

 

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