ERGA CONFERENCE 2006
Building Higher Education that Works: Methods and Results.
The ERGA Conference 2006 was extremely successful, gathering educators from Australia to discuss best practice and new techniques in higher education within the university system. The Conference consisted of a day of plenary and concurrent sessions plus two prior workshop sessions.
Full Program
Download last year's program here
Keynote Addresses
- Geoffrey Crisp - First year expectations: A report on the outcomes of a University wide student survey
- Jan Orrell - Carrick initiatives: New possibilities for development and innovation in learning and teaching
Conference Topics
- Online technology
- An online method for developing students’ essay-writing skills in psychology
- Lectures on steroids…utilising both synchronous and asynchronous technologies to deliver an online postgraduate program
- Research skills development
- Undergraduate research skill development: Small course changes may bring big rewards
- Developing the research skills of first-year students: Five years on
(Examples of specific assessment tasks can be found on the RSD web site.)
- The first-year experience
- Methods for tutors: Facilitating first-year students’ successful transition into a research-intensive university
- Niches for competitive learning at university
- Students in transition—supporting their learning and keeping them enrolled
- Confronting decreasing enrolment through issue-based teaching
- Making the connections: The introduction of interactive lectures in large first-year classes
- Getting alongside students in their learning—using wikis, iPods and mp3
- Using student feedback
- Using feedback from students in a second-year biochemistry class to improve the educational outcomes
- Using an electronic voting system in large class lectures enhances the learning experience for undergraduate students
- Changes in students’ perceptions of PBL after one semester’s experience
- Correlation between SELT results and discipline based education
- International students
- First-year Arab Muslim students negotiating the Western academy
- The risk of writing academically—where mistakes are deemed to be ‘offences’ under the label of plagiarism
- Teaching methodologies
Workshops
- workshop one
- workshop two
The ERGA Conference 2006 was generously supported by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic, University of Adelaide.
