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Deakin Teaching and Learning Conference 2008

Enhancing Teaching, Learning and the Student Experience at Deakin: Principles, Strategies and Practices

18-19th June Burwood Campus

View the program online or download the entire conference program (745KB)

Below are some of the presentations from the conference.

Teaching and Learning at Deakin - the next phase (5.67MB)
John Rosenberg, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)

Heading in the right direction: Deakin's Teaching and Learning Plan in the international context (247KB)
Keynote Address: Dr Craig McInnis (Special Advisor on Teaching and Learning to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Deakin University)

Leading teaching effectively at the unit level (152KB)
Judy Nagy and Tony Burch, Deakin Business School, Faculty of Business and Law

Reflective Journals and Student Engagement (1.15MB)
Ian Story and Susie Macfarlane, Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences

Change in students' attitudes towards the role of economics in environmental policy (299KB)
Mary Graham, Margaret McKenzie and Helen Scarborough, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business and Law

Developing an Online Assessment Regime to Improve the Quality of First Year Students' Research (1.71MB)
Ian Warren, Chad Whelan, School of History Heritage and Society, Faculty of Arts and Education, Marion Churkovich Library, Waurn Ponds, Jonathan Gould, Faculty of Arts and Education

Requesting Progress Reports from Students: A simple but profound method of motivation (64KB)
Andrew Creed, Donald Swanson and Melissa Parris, School of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Law

Dealing with the Challenges of Teaching large Groups (53KB)
Fara Azmat, School of Management & Marketing, Faculty of Business and Law

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Working the e-learning technology portfolio to best effect in higher education: investigating teacher and student perspectives on the value of integrated suites of new media/new technologies (.zip 748KB)
Jo Coldwell and Annegret Goold, School of Engineering and Information Technology, Faculty of Science and Technology, and Stuart Palmer and Dale Holt, Institute of Teaching and Learning

Designing and delivering a Course Quality Framework in Higher Education: the Deakin Experience (625KB)
Jennifer Radbourne, Chair, Teaching and Learning Committee, Academic Board, Faculty of Arts and Jude Westrup, Institute of Teaching and Learning

A postcard from Second Life: Arts Education in a Virtual Universe (16.9MB)
Jenny Grenfell, Deakin Fellow, School of Education, Faculty of Arts and Education

Second Life and Networked Educational Simulations: Development Potential and a Model Code of Practice (1.69MB)
Ian Warren, Darren Palmer, Tanya King, School of History Heritage and Society, Faculty of Arts and Education, Michael Hobbs, School of Engineering and Information Technology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Mr Stephen Segrave, Institute of Teaching and Learning

Join in the Conversation (.zip 269MB)
Andrew Creed and Don Swanson, Bowater School of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Law

The undergraduate students' perspective on support for online learning. An analysis of Deakin University's wholly online units (706KB)
Peggy Iu, Senior Executive Project Manager, Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)

The Penfield Hospital Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) in nursing education at Deakin (1.69MB)
Authors: Keith Ward – Huddersfield University UK, Julian Pearce, Elizabeth Bethune, Deana Copley, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences
Presenters: Julian Pearce, Elizabeth Bethune and Deana Copley, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences

Cooperative inquiry in a business school: scope, process and dimensions (1.5MB)
Fara Azmat, Fiona Graetz, Pauline Hagel and Dianne Waddell, Bowater School of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Law

Improving Student Evaluation of Teaching Unit (SETU) results: The School of Nursing Experience (135KB)
Judy Currey, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences

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Towards a model of teaching and learning excellence: a multidimensional approach to redeveloping an entire school’s teaching and learning program (5.33MB)
Greg Tooley, Susie Macfarlane and Alex Mussap, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences

Leveraging Web 2.0 in the library’s support of teaching and learning (5.15MB)
Deakin University Library: Sue Owen, Associate Librarian Client Services and Colin Bates, Manager, Faculty Library Services

Prevention is better than cure:  designing opportunities for plagiarism out of assessment tasks (962KB)
Susie Macfarlane, Deakin Fellow, Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences

Integrating academic skills development and content delivery: a case study of a first year humanities unit (1.4MB)
Linda Thies, Division of Student Life and Geoffrey Robinson, Faculty of Arts and Education

Group Assignments (18.8MB)
James Coulson, School of Architecture & Building, Faculty of Science and Technology

Group Assignments (68KB)
Jan Fermelis, School of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business & Law

Group Assignments (44KB)
John McElvaney, School of Management & Marketing, Faculty of Business & Law

Lessons learned: Reporting on student feedback and evaluation of social software in units (139KB)
Annegret Goold, Faculty of Science and Technology

New academic staff take the lead: Experimenting with social software at Deakin University (.zip 3.4MB)
Elizabeth Stacey, Faculty of Education and Arts,  Colin Warren, Faculty of Business and Law, and Gayani Samarawickrema, Institute of Teaching and Learning

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