Teaching and Learning Newsletter July 2009
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Forthcoming Conferences
4th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational
Integrity
Please consider attending/presenting at 4th Asia Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity to be hosted at the University of Wollongong 28 - 30 September 2009. There is still time to put forward a paper in what is shaping up to be a stimulating and very interactive conference format.
Conference information can be found at http://www.uow.edu.au/conferences/4APCEI_2009/home.html
2010 Quantitative Forum
and "Measuring the Student Experience" Forum - Calling for Abstracts
Abstracts are now invited for the 2010 Forum: Quantitative Analysis of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in Business, Economics and Commerce Disciplines. The Forum will be held on Friday February 12th 2010. Abstracts are due on July 31st 2009.
Please note that, next year, a parallel forum will be held on Thursday 11th February, 2010 entitled: Measuring the Student Experience. This half-day forum will feature quantitative papers on the Course Experience Questionnaire and institutional teaching evaluation surveys/teaching quality instruments (TQIs).
The quantitative forum in commerce disciplines is a joint initiative of the Teaching and Learning Unit (TLU) and the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the University of Melbourne. It is now in its fifth year and regularly attracts between 80 and 100 participants from around 38 universities in the Australasian region. Presenters have their accommodation and airfare paid, and accepted papers are published in the refereed Forum proceedings.
For further details please see: http://tlu.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/teaching_staff/forum/index.html Queries can be directed to: Dr Martin Davies, Deputy Director, Teaching and Learning Unit, University of Melbourne, P: (03) 8344 5727
ATN Assessment Conference
2009 - Assessment in Different Dimensions
19-20 November 2009 at Storey Hall, City Campus, RMIT University, Melbourne The conference keynotes who will be posing challenges and offering ideas for practice and policy associated with our key themes:
- Dr Chris Rust of Oxford Brookes University
- Professor Geoffrey Crisp of University of Adelaide
- Professor Jan Herrington of Murdoch University
For more information and to register for the conference visit http://emedia.rmit.edu.au/atnassessment09/
New Resources
Tips for ensuring your good teaching is reflected in your SETs
Notes from the professional development workshop of May 21 (doc, 51KB) , presented by Ken Adams, John Hendrickson & Helena Ward, including Helena's wonderful mindmap (pdf, 777KB).
Student diversity
A new 5 minute In-a-nutshell about student diversity
View more In-a-nutshell