Festival of Learning and Teaching June 2023
To help craft a strong and positive future for our students, The University has embarked on a journey to design a future-fit learning and teaching strategy: Education in a Digital World.
Attendees engaged with the key ideas informing the strategy at the second event, on 16 June, Activating Learning.
Keynote presentation with Professor Angela Carbone at the 16 June Festival event
The half day event was held at the Adelaide Health and Medical Sciences Building.
Attendees heard from the keynote presenter, Professor Angela Carbone and university colleagues and had the opportunity to contribute to discussions about Active Learning.
Listen to the Echo360 Recording of the Keynote presentation
View Keynote presentation slides
View and donwload phographs from the event
Features of June Program
KEYNOTE
The Power of Active Learning
Professor Angela Carbone, Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor Learning, Teaching and Quality within the STEM College at RMIT University.
This keynote presentation explores the concept of active learning and its practical implementation in various educational environments. Participants will have an opportunity to engage in active learning activities while exploring the concept, implementation, and benefits and challenges in various educational environments.
A focus of the presentation will explore how active learning can be applied in practice, and its adaptability to different educational settings, including traditional classrooms and online learning environments. The presentation will showcase some active learning initiatives at RMIT University. Participants will gain insights into specific examples of how RMIT incorporates active learning methodologies into its curriculum through its Active, Applied and Authentic (AAA) Signature Pedagogy.
Associate Professor Graham Hardy, Professor Suzanne Le Mire, Professor Angela Carbone and Professor Danny Liew
Interactive concurrent sessions on the following topics
- The 7E model of enquiry based learning
- Activating learning in SET
- Active learning in a large group setting; increasing student engagement and understanding
- Principles, pedagogy and praxis: Active learning for university teachers
- Chat JGT (Just Good Teaching)
- AI and active learning
- Enabling active learning and skill building in group work assessment
- Designing active learning approaches across a program: Lessons learned