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
  • Intensive teaching
  • Developing a graduate attributes continuum to guide postgraduate program development within a clinical practice setting

Workshops

• workshop one
• workshop two

The ERGA Conference 2006 was generously supported by the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic, University of Adelaide.

Seminars

The Professional Expectations and Experiencdes of Postgraduate Engineering Research Students

Speaker: Ms Karen Adams
Date: Monday 13th November
Time: 11:10am
Venue: Davis Room (Rm S117), First Floor, Engineering South Building (School of Mechanical Engineering)

Carrick Institute Grants Scheme: Meeting expectations for innovation, evaluation, dissemination and collaboration

Workshop Leader: Ms Deanne Gannaway
Date: Friday 24th November
Time: 10:30 - 12:30
Venue: Room 329, 3rd Floor, IST Building, Flinders University

Please note that registration is required.  For more information please click this link.