Connections in Learning and Teaching Seminar Series

Connections is a series of seminars facilitated by the Learning and Teaching Unit (LTU) to explore different aspects of learning and teaching. The seminars are open to all staff and provide a forum to share ideas and get feedback on practice and research.

All the sessions include Q&A and discussion time, so please come along prepared to share your experiences.

Upcoming seminars

To subscribe to our mailing list of upcoming seminars email ltevents@unsw.edu.au

• Tuesday 22nd May - What's wrong with feedback?
• Thursday 31st May - Australian Indigenous Studies @ Nura Gili
• Tuesday 5th June - W3 to W8: W3, Websites, Wikis, Who, What, Where, Why and Wait

For further details contact Carolina Matheson on ext 58636 or email c.matheson@unsw.edu.au

Past seminars 2012

• 16 May - The Situation Engine: Developing IT to support work integrated learning
• 8 May - Scenario-based Learning: An innovative approach to bring it all together
• 2 May - Using blogs in the classroom: Student learning experiences
• 24 April - Making content meaningful: Teaching strategies to promote students' personal connection to content
• 18 April - Standards-based Assessment: The way forward
• 3 April - Low-tech high-impact teaching strategies for large classes
• 29 March - Stories of change: With twelve guiding principles of learning along the way
• 20 March - Assessment rubric as teaching tool: Learning how to 'Tick all the boxes'
• 14 March - Teaching applied ethics – is it just common sense?
• 6 March - Online pre-lab quizzes: A comparison of online platforms and discussion of learning effectiveness
• 29 February - Where assessment practice and social justice meet: Class participation strategies in the Faculty of Law

Past seminars 2011

• 8 November - Creating an Intellectual Community through TELT
• 1 November - What is "Global Citizenship" and how do we assess it?
• 25 October - Measuring a reduction in assessment load: Selecting appropriate metrics by which to demonstrate efficiency gains made while ensuring quality assessment practices
• 18 October - Initiatives for online feedback to students in the ASB; ReView and webPA
• 11 October - Using the blog to assess students' discussion board contributions
• 27 September - Simulations, games, and role-plays incorporating reflective activities: Three examples of classroom and online role-based learning activities
• 20 September - Students Assessing Themselves
• 13 September - So you teach ethics?
• 30 August - An assessment strategy for developing oral presentation skills in a third year Pathology course
• 23 August - The Big Picture: Using portfolios and eportfolios for assessment
• 16 August - Learning to love group work: Diversified task design to optimise group learning
• 2 August - Reframing the way we construct Assessment: A student-action centred approach
• 26 July - DISmantling DISabilities: A conversation around inclusive assessment