Thursday

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Events are shown in green, brown-bag lunch seminars are shown in black (BYO brown-bag lunch). LTAP refers to the Learning and Teaching Action Plan (www.uws.edu.au/ltap)

Emerging technologies: Enhancing your vUWS site, Campbelltown 11am-12pm, CA-04.15 (LT01), Ms Lynnae Rankine

The scholarship of learning and teaching and the College of Business and Law, Campbelltown 12-1pm, CA-04.15 (LT01), Mr Michael Brogan

vUWS: Where’s the Library?, Campbelltown 1-2pm, CA-04.15 (LT01), Ms Liz Curach and Mrs Meg Boness

What Indigenous students like and don't like about university, Hawkesbury 12-1pm, HW-M1-0.25, Drs Lesley Kuhn and Robert Woog

Screencasting for teaching and training purposes: The future of e-learning?, Parramatta 12-1pm, PS-EA.1.31, Dr Ray Archee

PASS: A peer supported pathway to student success, Penrith 12-1pm, KW-I.1.05, Ms Clare Power

Enhancing students' mathematical thinking skills, Penrith 1-2pm, KW-I.1.05, Ms Lyn Armstrong, Mr John Nicholls and Ms Maureen Morris

UWS lectures online, Penrith 2-3pm, KW-I.1.17, TDU, ITD and Dr Tim Griffin

Why evidence-based approaches are needed, including peer review, Penrith 3-4pm, KW-I.1.17, Professor Beryl Hesketh

College of Health and Science Learning and Teaching Forum (RSVP to AssocDeanAcad.chs@uws.edu.au), Werrington South 9.30am-2pm

Descriptions

Emerging technologies: Enhancing your vUWS site
Campbelltown 11am-12pm, CA-04.15 (LT01)
This session will highlight three new collaborative technologies that can be easily added to your vUWS site - Scholar, Wiki and LAMS.
Ms Lynnae Rankine

The scholarship of learning and teaching and the College of Business and Law
Campbelltown 12-1pm, CA-04.15 (LT01)
I will present findings regarding interviews I conducted with academic colleagues in the College of Business and Law regarding their connection with the scholarship of learning and teaching.
Mr Michael Brogan

vUWS: Where’s the Library?
Campbelltown 1-2pm, CA-04.15 (LT01)
In contemporary universities, the institutional learning management system is increasingly central to a student's learning experience. In the past, students would physically come to the Library - now increasingly the Library’s virtual resources and services will come to them. If UWS students are to graduate conversant with the literature of their discipline, and equipped with lifelong learning skills it is imperative that library resources are strategically integrated into vUWS sites. How can this be achieved in the current UWS environment?
Ms Liz Curach and Mrs Meg Boness

What Indigenous students like and don't like about university
Hawkesbury 12-1pm, HW-M1-0.25
In our research we have interviewed indigenous students to establish what has been their experience of studying in the Social Ecology post graduate programs. We have utilised complexity theory for design of inquiry and selection of methodology. Via coherent conversations with students and staff we have collected a range of views which we are analysing using attractor and fractal narrative analysis. We will reason general conclusions from specific instances regarding educational principles and practice. (An LTAP Project)
Drs Lesley Kuhn and Robert Woog

Screencasting for teaching and training purposes: The future of e-learning?
Parramatta 12-1pm, PS-EA.1.31
This presentation demonstrates the ability of the program, Captivate, to focus student attention on mini instructional videos which were constructed from screen captures, audio and video files. (An LTAP Project)
Dr Ray Archee

PASS: A peer supported pathway to student success
Penrith 12-1pm, KW-I.1.05
A multi-modal, experiential introduction to PASS (Peer Assisted Study Sessions). PASS is a student-centred, collaborative learning program where students work together to address study strategies, as well as an understanding and consolidation of content. During this seminar, participants will be able to engage in aspects of the PASS program. (An LTAP project)
Ms Clare Power

Enhancing students' mathematical thinking skills
Penrith 1-2pm, KW-I.1.05
This seminar will discuss supporting students mathematically in units where mathematical thinking is required but not explicitly taught.
Ms Lyn Armstrong, Mr John Nicholls and Ms Maureen Morris

UWS lectures online
Penrith 2-3pm, KW-I.1.17
UWS Lectures Online is a lecture capture system designed to record the audio and the visual presentations within an equipped lecture theatre. This system is being installed in the main lecture theatres across all campuses. These recordings can then be placed onto a vUWS site for student access. The session will cover general information about using this technology in 2009, hints from those who have participated in the pilot sessions in 2008 and examples of good practice.
TDU, ITD and Dr Tim Griffin

Why evidence-based approaches are needed, including peer review
Penrith 3-4pm, KW-I.1.17
Drawing on research in cognition and learning, a case will be made for more than student evaluations in determining effective learning and teaching approaches that foster long term adaptive and transferable skills.
Professor Beryl Hesketh

College of Health and Science Learning and Teaching Forum (RSVP to AssocDeanAcad.chs@uws.edu.au), Werrington South 9.30am-2pm,
Learn about changing assessment practices at UWS. Keynote speaker for the forum is Associate Professor Roseanne Taylor from the Faculty of Vet Science at University of Sydney.