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2008 UTS Teaching and Learning Forum Program

Thursday 27 November, 2008
9.00 am	University Hall (CB04.02.23) Introductions
9.05 am	University Hall (CB04.02.23) Acknowledgment of Country Ms Joan Tranter, Equity and Diversity Coordinator
9.10 am	University Hall (CB04.02.23) Welcome to the Forum Prof. Ross Milbourne, Vice Chancellor
9.30 am	University Hall (CB04.02.23) Collaborative learning in culturally diverse learning environments: Opportunities, challenges, and inconsistencies Prof. Simone Volet, Murdoch University
10.30 am	Morning Tea
	CB04.02.34 Curriculum renewal in Science	CB04.02.36 Collaborative learning	CB04.02.38 Graduate Attributes	CB04.02.40 Communication Skills
11.00 am	360 degree approach to embedding graduate attributes in Science Fraser Torpy, Dan Willis, Anita Piper	The racist within? John Buchanan	UTS work-ready wiki of generic and professionally contextualised learning activities Skye Nettleton, Andrew Litchfield & Jessica Frawley	Using transdisciplinary research to drive graduate-attribute focused curriculum transformation Catriona Bonfiglioli, Les Kirkup, Ian Woolf
11.30 am	Renewal of the curriculum for the physiology discipline to enhance educational outcomes for major courses in the Faculties of Science and Nursing Martin, Wyndham, Valenzuela, Van Reyk, Holley, Lal, Housego, Gray, Kilstoff, Gordon, & Kelly	On-Line Learning as Action Learning Patricia Farrar & Caroline Briggs	Learning to Design Interactive Technologies for Use Robertson, Loke, Prior, Dyson	Learning communication skills in a practice based degree Fran Rogan & Caroline San Miguel
12.00 pm	Transforming practice-oriented activities for first year science students Kirkup, Pizzica, Waite & Srinivasan	Curriculum design of real estate subjects in higher education using problem-based learning to encourage positive learning activities Janet Ge	Using SPARKPlus to assess, track development of, and provide feedback on graduate attributes Keith Willey & Anne Gardner	Issues in teaching Network & Digital literacies in Communications Chris Caines
12.30 pm	Lunch & poster presentations
1.30 pm	University Hall (CB04.02.23) Teaching the Google-eyed YouTube generation Dr. Bill Ashraf from the University of Sussex, UK
2.30 pm	Trialling eportfolios at UTS Simon Housego, Jo McKenzie, Tara McLennan, James Hosking, Nicola Parker	Improving the Participation of International and Local Students in Large Lectures Using mLearning Dyson, Leigh, Litchfield, Raban, Tyler	Second Italy Ilaria Vanni & Gloria De Vincenti	Creating and repurposing interactive podcast activities Theresa Anderson
3.15 pm	Afternoon Tea
3.45 pm	The E-Portfolio: Its Use As A 3d Cv Janet Green	Bringing clinical practice to life in the lab Michelle Kelly & Jan Forber	Skill development for using online role-based learning environments Elyssebeth Leigh & Kate Collier	Piloting scholarly peer review of teaching and learning in blended learning environments McKenzie, Docherty, Menzies, Tse, Wyllie, Carey, Haines, Anderson, Parker
4.30 pm	University Hall (CB04.02.23) Reflecting on teaching and learning at UTS Prof. Shirley Alexander
5.00 pm	Close

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2008 UTS Teaching and Learning Forum Program