Workshops and Seminars 2009

Faculty of Law and Management Teaching and Learning Seminar Series

For more information about the T&L Seminar Series, please contact Matthew Riddle, telephone: +61 3 9479 3215, email: m.riddle@latrobe.edu.au.

February 27: Creative assessment and the curriculum

11.00am - 12.30pm: Public Seminar

2.00pm - 4.00pm: Faculty specific 2 hour practical workshop

These sessions will focus on how to design and implement creative assessment that engages students and delivers cutting edge curriculum. They will also address academic friendly ways to conduct assessment that ensures academics and students gain the maximum teaching and learning benefits from assessment tasks.

A video recording of Prof Keppell’s public seminar is now available. Please contact Matthew Riddle, m.riddle@latrobe.edu.au to obtain a copy.

May 29: Making flexible learning work for you (Public Seminar, 11.00am - 12.30pm)

E-learning can enhance student learning by engaging students in methods of learning that they are comfortable with and therefore respond to easily.These sessions will address the vexing issue of what kind of e-learning strategies should academics embrace and how to go about designing them and implementing them.

Gráinne Conole is Professor of e-Learning at the Open University, with research interests in the use, integration and evaluation of Information and Communication Technologies and e-learning and impact on organisational change.

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May 29: Designing effective e-Learning activities (Faculty Workshop, 2.00pm - 4.00pm)

Gráinne Conole, Professor of e-Learning, Open University, UK

While there is a wealth of knowledge about learning in higher education, and a plethora of tools and resources to use, there is a gap between the potential of these technologies and the application of good pedagogical principles. This session will introduce you to a toolkit which you can use to guide you through the process of articulating information needs, resulting in the production of a design for a particular learning activity. This workshop is for staff in the Faculty of Law and Management, and includes hands-on practical activities. Feel free to bring ideas for technology-supported teaching and learning activities that you would like to develop during the session.

1. • OU Learning Design Initiative
   

2. • CompendiumLD
   

3. • Cloudworks
   

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July 24: Constructive alignment - you can't live without it

Professor Catherine Tang

11.00am - 12.30pm: Public Seminar

2.00pm - 4.00pm: Faculty specific workshop

What are learning objectives and how to I determine them and draft them into my subject learning guide? How do I align my learning activities to the learning objectives in my subject? How do I assess those learning objectives? How do I evaluate my success in this process of constructive alignment? All these questions and more will be answered in this not-to-be-missed seminar and workshop by two of the most influential internationally renowned higher education academics.

John Biggs is an Honorary Professor of Psychology and Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Teaching and Learning at the University of Hong Kong and one of the most widely recognised names in higher education research and development, having worked internationally in the UK, Hong Kong, Canada and Australia and his model of constructive alignment (a form of outcomes-based education) is recognised and implemented around the world. Professor Catherine Tang was formerly Head of staff development centres at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Hong Kong Institute of Education, and is the co-author of the 3rd edition of Teaching for quality learning at university with John Biggs.

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The Cockatoo Club

The Cockatoo Club is a place for people to talk about work that is already being done, or discuss ideas that may be later developed into conference presentations or articles, research projects or teaching and learning innovations.

The Cockatoo Club is an initiative of the Faculty of Law and Management together with the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and will be held on the fourth Wednesday of every month, alternating between both Faculties.

2009 Dates

1. •29 April, 2.30pm, Venue A
   

2. •27 May, 11.00am, Venue B
   

3. •24 June, 2.30pm, Venue A
   

4. •22 July, 11.00am, Venue B
   

5. •26 August, 2.30pm, Venue A
   

6. •23 September, 11.00am, Venue B
   

7. •28 October, 2.30pm, Venue A
   

8. •25 November, 11.00am, Venue B
   

Venue A: Room 362, Martin Building

Venue B: Room 333, Humanities 3

For more information about the Cockatoo Club, please contact Matthew Riddle, telephone: +61 3 9479 3215, email: m.riddle@latrobe.edu.au.  Photo: Julian Robinson.

Innovations in Teaching and Learning Workshop Series

Do you have an innovative teaching idea you would like to pursue?

There are many internal and external opportunities to receive funding for innovative teaching projects. If you have an innovative teaching idea, we would like to help you develop it, to obtain funding for it and to implement it.

The Faculty is running three one hour lunchtime workshops to help you develop an idea and then to make your idea come to fruition. We will provide you with the expertise to develop your idea and help draft a winning application as well as provide you with lunch to make the whole process easier than you may think.

Dates to be advised.

For more information about the Innovations series, please contact Matthew Riddle, telephone: +61 3 9479 3215, email: m.riddle@latrobe.edu.au.