HERDSA pre-conference presentations

You are invited to an event at the University of Canberra sponsored by the ACT Branch of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA).
Members and non-members welcome.

ACT delegates to next month's 2013 HERDSA Conference will be giving a sneak preview of their conference presentations.

Come and hear from Lyndsay Agans (ANU) on MOOCS; Jean Rath (UC) on early career academics and teaching; Gesa Ruge (UC) on 'Talking about Teaching and Learning' workshops; and Elke Stracke and Sylvia Ashton (UC) on giving and receiving feedback in HDR supervision. (Details of all presentations below)

4:00pm to 5:30pm, Wednesday 12 June, Teaching & Learning Commons, Room 1C42, Building 1, University of Canberra

Please RSVP for catering purposes: jean.rath@canberra.edu.au

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Scalable Learning: The Beautiful Paradox of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)Presenter: Lyndsay Agans, The Australian National University

The Australian National University has recently joined with edX.org to offer two massive, open, online courses. This showcase presentation examines the organisational thinking and approach behind the development of the course, Engaging India from the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. In general, this presentation examines the theory, planning, and practice of MOOC delivery and questions the impact on teaching and learning, educational research, and higher education organisational behaviour.

The Next Generation of University Teachers: Longitudinal research into early career academics’ placement of teaching within their academic practicePresenter: Jean Rath, University of Canberra

This team-based research explores the nature of academic work and academic careers amongst early career academics. It takes a longitudinal qualitative approach, which enables an individual biographical focus as well as opportunities to look across cases. For the HERDSA conference paper, we use three individuals as illustrative studies of how early career academics view teaching in relation to the other demands and priorities of contemporary academic practice.

TATAL (Talking about Teaching and Learning)

Presenter:  Gesa Ruge, University of Canberra

The HERDSA TATAL (Talking about Teaching and Learning) workshops seek to develop cohorts of reflective practitioners, who seek to enhance their teaching and the learning of their students. At the 2013 Conference, the program will begin with a pre-conference workshop and continue with a session each day of the conference.

Giving and receiving feedback in HDR supervision: Matches and mismatches

Presenters: Elke Stracke and Sylvia Ashton, University of Canberra

This presentation reports on selected aspects of the OLT-funded project ‘Giving and Receiving Written Feedback in HDR Supervision: Enhancing Supervisors' and Candidates' Skills in a Cross-Cultural Context’. It focuses on language-specific issues that play a role in the communication between supervisors and candidates when giving and receiving feedback in a cross-cultural context.

For more information contact

Dr Jean Rath
Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC) | University of Canberra | Bruce | ACT 2601 | Australia.
Ph: +61 (0)2 6201 5266 | Fax: +61 (0)2 6201 5172
Email: Jean.Rath@canberra.edu.au | Web: http://www.canberra.edu.au/tlc/tlc-staff/dr.-jean-rath