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Rethinking STEM Higher Education - 2021 Conference
- Date: Thu, 28, 7:30 pm - Fri, 29 Jan 2021, 3:30 am
- Location: Online (UK time - recordings available after registration)
The 2021 STEM conference will provide an opportunity to reflect on, learn from, and further progress our responses to the COVID-19 crisis, to ensure that our approaches to STEM education are more resilient, effective and inclusive and to identify the new opportunities that have arisen from the pandemic.
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ADEPT – Flexible Modes of Delivery Workshop
- Date: Thu, 18, 9:30 am - Fri, 19 Feb 2021, 11:00 am
- Location: Remote Workshop
This ADEPT module will provide course coordinators and educators with an understanding of the educational theory behind student engagement in an online environment and the tools to successfully convert lecture content from f2f to online delivery making effective use of video in a way that is appropriate to your discipline.
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ADEPT – Designing Engaging Learning Environments Workshop
- Date: Mon, 22, 10:00 am - Wed, 24 Feb 2021, 12:00 pm
- Location: Remote Delivery
This module is part of the Developing Educators pathway of the ADEPT Continuing Professional Development.
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2020 Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT)
- Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- Location: https://www.universitiesaustralia.edu.au/policy-submissions/teaching-learning-funding/australian-awards-for-university-teaching/
On Wednesday 24 February 2021, 4pm AEDT (3.30pm Adelaide time), Universities Australia (UA) will make a formal announcement regarding the 2020 Australian Awards for University Teaching in the AAUT-UA website.
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Student agency and confidence in assessment
- Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021, 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
- Location: Online
In this presentation, Dr McCallum will discuss the various approaches he has taken over 20 years to the challenge of engaging students. Drawing on his research in Game Development and player-focused approaches to creating experiences, he discusses agency, competence, and relatedness as psychological motivators and how assessment can support engagement. How the narrative description of assessment is as important as the mathematical correctness.
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2020 hindsight shapes the future of learning and teaching
- Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
- Location: Via Zoom
The student experience of online learning in the time of Covid-19 and its implications for the on-campus experience in 2021 and beyond.
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2021 Academic Integrity policy - Information session for staff
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021, 10:00 am - 11:00 am
- Location: Via Zoom
In these information sessions learn about the new Academic Integrity policy, including how course coordinators and others can work effectively with the new Academic Integrity Officers in each school to support academic integrity investigations.
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ADEPT - Designing and Delivering Quality WIL Experiences
- Date: Mon, 15, 9:00 am - Tue, 23 Mar 2021, 5:00 pm
- Location: Remote, MyUni course
This ADEPT module will cover the why, what, and how of designing and delivering quality Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) experiences through the application of evidence-based approaches that are responsive to current industry and community needs. It will address three dimensions of a quality WIL experience: student experience, industry engagement, and curriculum design.
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ADEPT – Assessment for Learning 1 Workshop
- Date: Tue, 13, 10:00 am - Thu, 15 Apr 2021, 12:00 pm
- Location: Delivered Online (Zoom)
Assessment is a powerful tool for student learning. In this module, you will engage with evidence-based, good practice principles for effective and efficient assessment design and apply them to your teaching context. You will identify how assessments can be aligned with the Universal Design for Learning Principles to ensure inclusive learning experiences for a diverse student cohort. You will be introduced to a range of assessment approaches, and explore how to evaluate the quality of rubrics to provide constructive and informative feedback.
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Where to for higher education from here? Common global pandemic, very different national outcomes
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Location: Online
Where to for higher education from here? Common global pandemic, very different national outcomes. In this not to be missed seminar, Professor Simon Marginson, Professor of Higher Education, University of Oxford, will explore the impact of COVID-19 globally, including the capacity for Australian universities to remain as a world class research sector and international education destinations.
