UTS Teaching and Learning Forum Program

Tuesday 14 Novermber, 2006

9.15

Registration

9.30

Welcome and house keeping

Dr. Peter Kandlbinder

9.35

Welcome to Place

Ms Joan Tranter

9.40

Introductions

Dr. Alex Byrne

9.55

Keynote Address:
Research and Teaching: Beyond the Divide

A/Prof. Angela Brew, Institute for Teaching and Learning, University of Sydney

11.00

Morning Tea

11.30

Rm CB04.02.31

Curriculum design

 

Integrating Sustainability Into MBA Programs

Suzanne Benn, Dexter Dunphy, Soochen Low & Robert Perey

 

An Integrated Approach to Dynamic Learning

Paul Burke & Luke Greenacre

 

A focus on professional practice in a final year undergraduate mathematics subject

Layna Groen

 

Chair: Simon Housego

Rm CB04.02.33

Assessment

 

Making numbers count

Neela Griffiths, and Mary Coupland

 

 

Student Reactions to a Strict Criterion-Referenced Assessment Scheme based on Bloom’s Taxonomy

Raymond Lister

 

 A Trial in Optional Assessment

Lyndal Taylor & Francis Johns

 

Chair: Stella Valenzuela

Rm CB04.02.36

Online learning

 

The use of e-portfolios in journalism education

Jenna Price

 

 

Narrated visual answers to FAQs

Keith Willey

 

Exposing Variation to Enhance Student Learning

Darrall Thompson

 

Chair: Tanja Golja

Rm CB04.02.35

Teaching Matters

 

Team teaching as situated learning

Sue Knights Lois Meyer and Jane Sampson

 

Tutorial Attendance and Grade Achievement

Tiffany Hutcheson & Harry Tse

 

Transcending the teaching and research divide in the C21st university

Virginia Watson

 

Chair: Peter Kandlbinder

1.00

Lunch

 

1.45

Rm CB04.02.31

Graduate Attributes

 

Developing research skills for First Year Students

Barbara Goldsmith

Blending creative and analytical skills in Social Informatics

Suzana Sukovic, and Theresa Anderson

 

Reducing Variation Among Academics’ Expectations of Student Writing

Peter Docherty

 

Chair: Tanja Golja

Rm CB04.02.33

International Student Learning

 

Strategies for Cross-Culture Teaching and Learning

Jie Lu and Helen Lu

 

 

Combining formative group work assignment with peer group assessment

Stephen Teo

 

Challenges to Teaching and Learning in an International Context: The Case of the UTS Bachelor of Business degree at Shanghai University

Kylie Redfern & Stephen Teo

 

Chair: Peter Kandlbinder

Rm CB04.02.36

Group Work

 

Supporting student  self-and-peer assessment in large groupwork projects

Richard Raban & Andrew Litchfield

 

The role of formative feedback when using self and peer assessment to improve teamwork and engagement

Keith Willey

 

The Group Work Wizard

Adam Morgan

 

Chair: Darrall Thompson

 

 

3.15

Afternoon Tea 

3.30

Rm CB04.02.35

Bringing Research and Teaching together at UTS

A panel discussion with Prof. Theo Van Leeuwen, Prof. John Rice & Dr. Sara Denize. Chaired by Prof. Shirley Alexander

4.30

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