Transformation

6th ERGA Conference

28-30 September 2011
The University of Adelaide

EDUCATION RESEARCH GROUP OF ADELAIDE

Conference Flier
Conference Timetable & Abstracts

Keynote Addresses

• Kift. Transition Pedagogy: Ensuring that first year student success is not left to chance. [slides][audio]
• Boud. Designing courses for practice-based learning.

Panel Sessions

• Aspland, Backstrom, Munro, Piccolo & Quester. What is a learning hub and how can it transform student experience at Adelaide? [audio]
• Boud, Devlin & Kift. The only constant may be change.
• Tuovinen & Shapter. Prepare to meet the judges. Advice from past assessors on preparing for the national learning citations and teaching awards assessment. [audio]

Workshops

• Hobson. Using the Pearson 'Mastering' platform to improve learning outcomes. [audio]
• Nelson & Creagh. Applying a social justice framework to ensure good practice in monitoring student learning engagement.
• Schmidt. Preparing students for a global future: Introducing the Internationalised Curriculum Design Compass.
• Westphalen. Putting Zing in your assessment.
• Willison, Karanicolas & Snelling. Research skill development ... but 'what about passion?'

Concurrent Sessions

• Barnett, Douglas & Kennedy. Turning student resistance to reading into reading resilience.
• Beasley & Cao. Transforming first-year university Politics students into critical thinkers. [audio]
• Birbeck. Institutionalising service learning in an Australian context. [audio]
• Brinkworth & McCann. "We're not in Kansas anymore": Analysing university expectations and experiences for rural and remote students.
• Butler & Crouch. Student experiences of cheat sheets and their beliefs about exams. [audio]
• Devlin & McKay. Transforming teaching practices or just teaching effectively?: 'What works' for university students from low socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Dodd. Parallel teaching of postgraduate coursework students in undergraduate courses: An examination of student expectations, experiences, and views. [audio]
• Evans. The use of portfolios in Australian creative writing courses: A research project in process. [audio]
• Evans & Houston. In transit: Managing large tutor groups for first year topics.
• Feakes, McArthur, Hazel, Palmer & Rutley. Gender and other impacts on veterinary student attitudes to non-technical skills, knowledge and attributes needed for their professional future. [audio]
• Haggis. Designing learning environments with difference in mind: Encounters with hybridity and e-learning. [audio]
• Hewitt & Richards. Using online role play to transform the student experience - A stepping stone to professional life? [audio]
• King, Garrett & Wrench. Transformation or deterioration? Changes to student health and well-being during the transition to university. [audio]
• Macleod, Stephenson, Anderson, Hayes, Heath, Reynolds & Star. Good CoP or Bad CoP? What makes a Community of Practice successful: Learning from experience at Flinders University.
• McCulloch. Research degree supervision as teaching: Reflections from the front line in a changing environment.
• Michell & Brook. Transforming teaching.
• Mitchell & Zutshi. Transitioning an independent learning model to an on-line environment. [audio]
• Parappilly & Rowell. Encouraging physics and science careers through astronomy.
• Pearce. University–school mentoring partnerships: Transforming the aspirations of disadvantaged high school students.
• Pearce, King & Elliot. Transforming practice: A survey of moderation practices across the Division of Health Sciences at UniSA.
• Richards, Sweet & Billett. Preparing medical students for success.
• Sendziuk. In defence of tutorials. [audio]
• Singh & Palmer. A place to make friends and learn; a dedicated first year learning centre. [audio]
• Smid, Salem & Musgrave. Blended approaches to practical teaching in pharmacology: The best of both worlds?
• Smith. Student perceptions of electronic versus paper feedback - pilot study. [audio]
• Sweet, Richards & Billett. Case based learning for successful integration: What are the benefits? [audio]
• Tingay. Use of wikis, peer and self assessment for a group research assignment: A case study from Petroleum Engineering. [audio]
• Wachtel, Gilbert & McNeill. The relationship between written feedback on student assignments and student learning; how much feedback is just enough?
• Warner & Picard. Facilitating articulated learning for English as an additional language students: The role of ALL academics. [audio]
• Willis & Foley. A student-created feedback approach for improved student engagement and learning. [audio]
• Willis & Leiman. Transition or transformation? Integrating imaginal knowledge in the process of 'becoming' a professional.
• Willison. Long-term outcomes of explicit research skill development in the curriculum. [audio]
• Wu, Zecchin, Lambert & Willison. The use of 'Groups' on MyUni for Honours research projects. [audio]