Innovation Across the Schools and Faculties—Parallel Sessions with presentation and discussion
Session One, Room G02/G03, Ground Floor, Asia Centre: Embracing Interdisciplinarity
Chaired by Clinton Golding (CSHE)
Dr Clare Delany (Physiotherapy), Assoc. Prof. Marilys Guillemin, Dr Sally Warmington (Melbourne School of Population Health)
Using an Interdisciplinary Narrative Ethics Approach in Health Professional Education
Although ethics education is recognised as an integral component of all health professionals’ education there is little evidence that current teaching results in more ethical practice or the ability to face ethical dilemmas. This session will describe the narrative ethics approach and how it can be used to facilitate students to tell, write and analyse their own stories, using guide questions to open up their perspectives and integrate the insights gained.
Dr Helena Bender (Resource Management and Geography), Dr Graham Moore (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Exploring the Practice of and Tools for Teaching Interdisciplinarity
Reshaping Environments has adopted an interdisciplinary approach to curriculum development, teaching, and training. This session will highlight how we practice interdisciplinarity and the tools we teach each other and our students so they can implement interdisciplinary practice.
Dr Lachlan MacDowall (VCA and Music)
Research Methods and the Value(s) of Scholarship
The session describes the development of an interdisciplinary research methods subject in the Masters in Community Cultural Development. While the subject integrates the practical and philosophical dimensions of conducting research, it also seeks to transmit the values of scholarship necessary for negotiating the complex field of community-based arts, an area often structured by competing forms of expert, local and ‘subjugated’ knowledge.
Session Two, Room 311, Level 3, Alice Hoy: Graduate Attributes
Chaired by Christine Asmar (CSHE)
Philip Morrissey (Australian Indigenous Studies)
Australian Indigenous Studies within the Context of the Melbourne Model
This session will discuss the opportunities and challenges that the Melbourne Model has presented for the Faculty of Arts’ Australian Indigenous Studies Program in developing its interdisciplinary major.
Dr. Nick Hill (Media and Communications)
The Internship as Knowledge/Experience Nexus
The presentation will explore the experience of a successful internship programme from the perspective of the student, the partner organisation and the University. It hopes to address the critical potential for longitudinal partnership building latent in this relationship.
Di Rachinger and Professor Philip Batterham
Bringing the Graduate Attributes to Life: Students impacting on communities from Carlton to Kolkata
The presentation will discuss the opportunities available to students via the Leadership, Involvement & Volunteer Experience Unit (LIVE). Hosting a range of programs and resources, LIVE is an organising platform providing students with unique opportunities to get involved both on and off campus in leadership, community engagement and volunteering activities, locally and globally.
Session Three, Room 316, Level 3, Alice Hoy: The Whole Student Experience
Chaired by Kerri-Lee Harris (CSHE)
Dr Melanie Plesch (VCA and Music)
The ‘Music History Abridged Concert’: A project-based alternative to traditional assessment practices in music history
This paper describes a project-based teaching and learning activity aimed at meaningfully integrating music history, performance, composition and cooperative research. The pilot project was carried out in Medieval and Early Modern Music, a core subject in the BMus (also available as Breadth) presenting an overview of the history of Western music from the Middle Ages to the late 18th century. The methodology is transferable to other teaching situations facing the tension between content and process.
Dr Peter Raisbeck (Architecture, Building and Planning)
Trash and Treasure: Designing and managing an innovative student experience
The presentation will discuss the development and implementation of the Waste Systems and Housing Construction project, Trash and Treasure. The subject was developed in collaboration across a number of Architecture, Building and Planning disciplines. It required students to conceive, design and build a shelter using waste materials. Students experienced first–hand the issues surrounding waste disposal and housing affordability.
Jonathan Norton (Counselling Service)
‘I’ve Had to Swallow My Pride’: Personal functioning, academic performance, and holistic student development
There is a tension between encouraging students to become independent and self–reliant, and situations where these very qualities become counterproductive in preventing students from seeking help when necessary or appropriate. What is the University’s role in this area, and how can this tension be navigated in a way that preserves what the University values?
Session Four, Frank Tate Room, Level 2, Alice Hoy: Engaging Globally
Chaired by Sophie Arkoudis (CSHE)
Assoc. Prof. Alison Duxbury (Law)
The Practicalities of Teaching Breadth: Experiences with human rights and global justice
The coordination of a University Breadth Subject gives rise to unique challenges for academic staff. This presentation will focus on the practicalities of teaching a subject across a number of faculties. It will draw on the experiences of the lecturers and tutors in designing and teaching Human Rights and Global Justice, a second year University Breadth Subject.
Ryan Bentley and Sheridan Laing (Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering students)
Low Cost Prosthetic Knees for Developing Nations
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) currently produces a low–cost prosthetic knee for use in developing nations. Two student projects (Design and Testing) aim to make improvements to the ICRC prosthetic knee. The students took a trip to Cambodia to visit ICRC facilities and present their work.
Christine Enker (International Careers and Employment)
Diverse Global Futures
This session will look at the employment outcomes of our graduates and the impact of the Global Financial Crisis. How are we building links and engaging globally to facilitate these outcomes? What are employers looking for and what are the challenges for international graduates in meeting these requirements in a complex and changing global labour market? What steps are we taking to address these issues?
Session Five, Room 325, Level 3, Alice Hoy: Assessment and E–Learning
Chaired by Kim Watty (TLU, Economics and Commerce)
Professor Colin Ferguson (Accounting and Business Information Systems)
Forensic Moots: An exercise to simulate a court room experience and provide feedback to students
In providing specialist advice to support litigation, forensic accounting practitioners may be called upon to give oral testimony in Court; however accountants may not be equipped with the skills to present themselves credibly. The session reports on the experience in offering and assessing the postgraduate subject Forensic Business Processes and describes one of the innovations – the Moot Exercise – designed to stimulate a court room experience and provide students with high level feedback.
Dr Jon Pearce (Information Systems)
PRAZE: How do students respond to a peer review process?
PRAZE is an in-house system that manages the anonymous peer review of students’ work. This presentation will describe the system and its adaptability, as well as report on the students’ highly encouraging feedback on its benefits to their learning.
Dr Jacinta Tobin (Clinical School, Royal Melbourne and Western Hospital)
E-learning Technologies to Enhance Student Engagement, Curriculum and Global Citizenship
A U21 Fellowship leads to a local e-project to enhance learning at distant sites for medical students, and contribution in a U21 collaborative international online course on the Millenium Development Goals to enhance student elective experiences. Lessons learnt, including access, adoption and quality, are discussed. |
