CHELT: Professional Development Program

Academic Professional Development Modules—in the CHELT Seminar Room (Building 10T)

Wednesday May 29 (12.30-1.30pm) – Learning: do emotions matter in teaching and learning?  

Professor Hans Heinimann from ETH Zurich will lead a discussion on new evidence of the role of emotions in human learning and explore the implications for current, and especially future, approaches to teaching and learning.

Thursday May 30 (9.30-11.30am) – Using the Research Skill Development Framework to drive initiatives in research-led education

Dr John Willison (University of Adelaide) will provide an interactive overview of the Research Skill Development Framework, using discipline-based examples, and then consider how the Framework can be used to facilitate the assessment of research-led education. The RSDF is a conceptual model that makes explicit the incremental and cyclic development of student research skills, and is informing the curriculum and assessment design of content-rich courses across more than 30 disciplines in Australian and overseas universities

(Target audience – teachers of undergraduate and postgraduate coursework)

Thursday May 30 (2.30-4.00pm) – Using the Research Skill Development Framework (RSD7) to support HDR supervision

Dr John Willison (University of Adelaide) will provide an interactive overview of the RSD7 Framework, and then consider how it the can be used most effectively by HDR students and their supervisors.

(Target audience – supervisors and HDR students)

Full details & registration at http://chelt.anu.edu.au/seminars-workshops/chelt-seminars-2013

  

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Dr Elizabeth (Beth) Beckmann SFHEA CMALT  |   Senior Lecturer, Staff Education (Teaching & Learning)
Centre for Higher Education, Learning and Teaching (CHELT)  |  The Australian National University  |  CRICOS 00120C
T: +61 2 6125 0057  |  E: elizabeth.beckmann@anu.edu.au |  Web: http://chelt.anu.edu.au/people/dr-beth-beckmann
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CHELT Seminars for May

Seminars—in the CHELT Seminar Room (Building 10T)

Friday May 24 (12.30-1.30) - Improving Quality at ETH Zurich: A Systemic Approach to Curriculum Assessment and Design

Professor Hans Heinimann from ETH Zurich will describe the ETH Zurich approach to continuously improving learning and teaching through systemic quality management; illustrate some of the university’s curriculum assessment and design procedures and tools; and discuss some of the challenges still to be confronted.

Thursday May 30 - Introducing the Research Skill Development Framework: a tool for development and mapping 

Dr John Willison from the University of Adelaide will introduce the Research Skill Development (RSD) Framework, a conceptual model that makes explicit the incremental and cyclic development of student research skills. The RSD Framework helps develop collaborative relationships between academics and others involved in the education process, and is informing the curriculum and assessment design of content-rich courses in more than 30 disciplines in Australian and overseas universities.

Full details & registration at http://chelt.anu.edu.au/seminars-workshops/chelt-seminars-2013

OLT: notice of new research funding for educational projects

Dear colleagues,

The Office for Learning and Teaching has made new funding available for Commissioned Projects in these areas:

1. Learning analytics: how can it assist us with student retention?
2. Graduate employability: how can universities best support students to develop generic skills?
3. Technology enabled learning: how can student learning outcomes be enhanced?
4. National learning and teaching resource audit and classification
5. Good Practice Reports: 
1. Postgraduate research and coursework degrees
2. Standards.

See guidelines: http://www.olt.gov.au/grants-and-projects/programs-and-applications/commissioned-projects 

Intending applicants are to lodge an ANU Notice of Intent to Submit to teaching.grants@anu.edu.au by 3 June, and are to submit their final proposals to their College Research Offices, along with the 'Authority to Apply for External Funding' form,  budget, and all other required documentation as covered in the guidelines, by 14 June. The closing date for submission of applications to OLT is Friday 28 June. 

Please contact us if you need further assistance.

Kind regards

Lyn

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Lyn Stevens

Promoting Excellence Administrator

Centre for Higher Education, Learning & Teaching (CHELT) 

Chancelry 10T, Ellery Crescent 

The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200

T: +61 2 6125 9486

F: +61 2 6125 4023

W:  http://chelt.anu.edu.au/

CRICOS Provider #00120C

From: Office for Learning and Teaching <LearningandTeaching@deewr.gov.au>
Date: Tuesday, 21 May 2013 10:59 AM
To: "HEWLETT,Suzi (DIISRTE)" <Susan.Hewlett@innovation.gov.au>
Subject: Office for Learning and Teaching request for proposals for commissioned projects [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

UNCLASSIFIED

The Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT) occasionally commissions strategic projects in response to key issues in the Australian higher education sector with the guidance of OLT’s Strategic Advisory Committee.

Applications are now open for commissioned projects in the following areas:

1.       Learning analytics: how can it assist us with student retention?

2.       Graduate employability: how can universities best support students to develop generic skills?

3.       Technology enabled learning: how can student learning outcomes be enhanced?

4.       National learning and teaching resource audit and classification

5.       Good Practice Reports:

·         Postgraduate research and coursework degrees

·         Standards

Projects 1–3 are larger strategic projects of national interest and we would anticipate proposals for funding of $220,000 and beyond.The OLT may award one or more grants to address a strategic topic.

Project 4, National learning and teaching resource audit and classification, has funding available of up to $150,00 and the  Good Practice Reports have funding of $30,000 each.

Applications should be received no later than 5pm (AEST) Friday 28 June 2013

The OLT would be grateful if you could forward this information to interested members of your staff.

More information and application instructions may be found at

http://www.olt.gov.au/grants-and-projects/programs-and-applications/commissioned-projects.

Kind regards

Suzi Hewlett

General Manager

Office for Learning and Teaching | Higher Education Division

Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education

Level 10, 255 Elizabeth Street, Sydney, NSW 2000 

GPO Box 9880, Sydney, NSW 2001

(02) 9246 0487 | trish.treagus@innovation.gov.au| http://www.olt.gov.au

ABN 74 599 608 295

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Books on teaching in the disciplines ordered for the ANU Library

The following books, many of which focus on university teaching in the arts and social sciences, have been ordered for the ANU Library:

• Anthropology - C. M. Tucker: Coffee Culture: Local Experiences, Global Connections (Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology
• Anthropology - C.P Kottak: The Teaching of Anthropology: Problems, Issues, and Decisions 
• Anthropology - P.C. Rice and D.W. McCurdy: Strategies in teaching anthropology 
• Art - Arthur D. Efland: History of Art Education: Intellectual and Social Currents in Teaching the Visual Arts   (30 May 2013: ANU Library has confirmed that the book has arrived and is in the catalogue)
• History - Nikki Mandell (Author), Bobbie Malone (Author) : Thinking like a historian: rethinking history instruction 
• History - T. Mills Kelly: Teaching history in the digital age (30 May 2013: ANU Library has confirmed that the book has arrived and is in the catalogue)
• Humanities - Valerie Hockert: Teaching Humanities 
• International Relations - Barb Superka (Author), Rebecca Parnell (Contributor) : Teaching International Relations  
• Languages - H. Douglas Brown: Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy (3rd Edition) 
• Languages - Jack Richards: Methodology in Language Teaching: an anthology of current practice 
• Music - Paul Harris: The Virtuoso Teacher (Improve Your Teaching)  
• Philosophy - Tziporah Kasachkoff (Editor) : Teaching Philosophy: Theoretical Reflections and Practical Suggestions  
• Philosophy - Valerie Hockert: Teaching Philosophy  
• Politics - Robert W. Glover (Editor), Daniel Tagliarina (Editor) : Teaching Politics Beyond the Book: Film, Texts, and New Media in the Classroom (30 May 2013: ANU Library has confirmed that the book has arrived and is in the catalogue)
• Politics and International Relations - C. Gormley-Heenan and S. Lightfoot: Teaching Politics and International Relations   (30 May 2013: ANU Library has confirmed that the book has arrived and is in the catalogue)
• Social Sciences - Chenicheri Sid Nair (Author, Editor), Patricie Mertova (Editor) : Enhancing Learning and Teaching Through Student Feedback in Social Sciences (Chandos Learning and Teaching Series)  
• Sociology - Nancy A. Greenwood  and Jay R. Howard: First Contact: Teaching and Learning in Introductory Sociology (30 May 2013: ANU Library has confirmed that the book has arrived and is in the catalogue)
• Teaching - Phil Beadle: How to teach (30 May 2013: ANU Library has confirmed that the book has arrived and is in the catalogue)
• University teaching - Donald L. Finkel: Teaching with Your Mouth Shut 
• University teaching - H. Beetham and R. Sharpe: Rethinking pedagogy for a digital age: designing for 21st century learning (30 May 2013: ANU Library has confirmed that the book has arrived and is in the catalogue)
• University teaching - Phil Race: The Lecturer's Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Assessment, Learning and Teaching (30 May 2013: ANU Library has confirmed that the book has arrived and is in the catalogue)
• University teaching - Tony Harland: University Teaching: An Introductory Guide

Look out for them in a couple of weeks.

OLT: Australian Universities in the Asian Century Forum

From: Office for Learning and Teaching <LearningandTeaching@deewr.gov.au>
Date: Tuesday, 21 May 2013 11:33 AM
To: "BAILEY,Francine (DIISRTE)" <Francine.Bailey@innovation.gov.au>
Subject: ALTF Forum - Australian Universities in the Asian Century [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

UNCLASSIFIED

Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to invite you to the Australian Universities in the Asian Century Forum to be held in Sydney on the 13 June 2013. The forum is being presented by the Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows (ALTF), and supported by the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT).  Details regarding the program, venue and registration are in the attached flyer.

I hope you will be able to take up this opportunity to engage with significant and relevant issues in higher education presented at this forum.

Yours sincerely

  

Suzi Hewlett

General Manager

Office for Learning and Teaching | Higher Education Division
Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education

Level 10, 255 Elizabeth Street, Sydney NSW 2000

PO Box 9880 Sydney, NSW 2001

CHELT seminars

Seminars

May 24 - Improving Quality at ETH Zurich: A Systemic Approach to Curriculum Assessment and Design

May 30 - Introducing the Research Skill Development Framework: a tool for development and mapping 

Academic Professional Development modules (more extensive coverage of concepts and applications)

May 29 Learning: Do emotions matter in teaching and learning?

May 30 - Using the Research Skill Development Framework to drive initiatives in research-led education

Target audience – those teaching undergraduates and coursework Masters

May 30 - Using the Research Skill Development Framework to Support HDR Supervision

Target audience – those supervising HDR students or developing their own research skills (HDR students and postdocs)

Full details and registration link at http://chelt.anu.edu.au/seminars-workshops/chelt-seminars-2013

Wattle notice

Hi all,

Please note the following:

1) May Development Release

Last night there was a successful deployment of a release into the Wattle Production environment (wattle.anu.edu.au).

This release included the following changes:

·         Creation of the new “Auditing Student” Role (as approved at Wattle Reference Group). See attached documentation for further details.

·         Creation of the new “Guest Lecturer” Role (as approved at Wattle Reference Group). See attached documentation for further details.

Let me know if you have any questions or would like further information.

2) Wattle Based TEL (Technology-Enhanced Learning)

We would like you to think about presenting your favourite and special Wattle activities for your colleagues.  We are planning to facilitate a single day of Wattle related activities for professional development – Tuesday 16^th July.  Please see the attached document and nominate a particular workshop presentation/activity you would like to present. Please contact Alison Ruth (alison.ruth@anu.edu.au) if you are interested in being involved.

With regards,

Danielle

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Danielle Anderson

Manager

Wattle Business Solutions Group
Centre for Higher Education, Learning and Teaching

Chancelry 10T, Ellery Crescent
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200

+61 2 6125 1087
+61 2 6125 4023
danielle.anderson@anu.edu.au

CRICOS Provider #00120C
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