Vice-Chancellor's Colloquium 2007: CSHE : The University of Melbourne

Vice-Chancellor's Colloquium 2007

The 2007 Vice-Chancellor’s Colloquium ‘Melbourne 2007 -> 2008: Celebrating Inspirational Teaching’, will symbolically mark the transition to the Melbourne Model in 2008. The Colloquium, to be held on Tuesday, December 4, will be an opportunity for the University community to acknowledge the achievements made during 2007 and to celebrate inspirational teaching and teachers.

The Colloquium program features:

A keynote address: Teaching for Higher Learning: Research-based Strategies to Promote Critical and Creative Thinking by Dr Tom Angelo, Professor of Higher Education, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

A showcase of this year’s University of Melbourne Teaching Award recipients, who will describe the essence of their personal approaches to teaching and learning
Recognition of the University’s unprecedented number of winners of national Carrick Awards for Australian University Teaching
Parallel sessions in which the grantees conducting development and innovation projects funded through the Learning and Teaching Performance Fund share the progress and outcomes of their work
The launch of a new DVD, Every Voice, which explores English language issues in Higher Education, co-produced by Dr Sophia Arkoudis (Deputy Director, CSHE) and Professor Ian Lang (Head VCA Film and TV).

Meet colleagues over lunch, which will be served between the presentation of awards and the keynote address.

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Time	Event
8.30am	Registration (Ground Floor Foyer, University of Melbourne Law School, Pelham St)
9.00-9.20am	Indigenous Acknowledgement Welcome and Opening Address Professor Pip Pattison, President, Academic Board Professor Glyn Davis,Vice-Chancellor
9.20-9.35am	Presentation of Carrick Awards and University of Melbourne Teaching Awards slides Professor Glyn Davis
9.35-9.50am	Innovation in Teaching and Learning Every Voice, Dr Sophia Arkoudis (Deputy Director, CSHE) and Professor Ian Lang (Head, VCA Film and TV) Explores English language issues in higher education
9.50-10.50am	Showcasing Best Practice in Teaching at the University of Melbourne Introduced by Professor Peter McPhee, Provost Featuring University of Melbourne Teaching Award Winners and Carrick Awards for Australian University Teaching (CAAUT) recipients. slides: Gleadow, Yue, Kentish, Love & Murray Listen to morning sessions here
10.50-11.20am	Morning Tea
11.20-12.30	Parallel Sessions Session 1 Chaired by Assoc. Prof. Roger Hadgraft (Engineering) Assoc. Prof. Carol Johnston and Ms Ciannon Cazaly (Economics and Commerce) Focus On Feedback: An investigation into the nature and usefulness of written feedback provided to students slides Professor Pip Pattison and Dr Paul Badcock (Medicine, Dentistry and Health Science) University Experience and Generic Skills slides Mr John Page and Ms Simone Brotherton (Centre for Indigenous Education) Teaching Indigenous Students under the Melbourne Model: Old landscapes, new horizons slides Session 2 Chaired by Assoc. Prof. Kim Watty (Economics and Commerce) Dr Julianne Moss and Ms Melody Anderson (Education) Induction and Mentoring: New professionalism and the Master of Teaching slides Dr Wendy Larcombe and Professor Ian Malkin (Law) The Legal Academic Writing Resources: Helping students understand the features and requirements of common forms of writing used for assessment in the Law School slides Professor David Williams (Medicine, Dentistry and Health Science) Three Semesters of Active Learning in Lectures supported by Personal Response Systems slides Session 3 Chaired by Dr Sophie Arkoudis (CSHE) Dr Jennifer Beard, Assoc. Prof. Sundhya Pahuja and Mr Peter Jones (Law) Globalization and the Law: The University of Melbourne’s latest contribution to the U21 Certificate in Global Issues slides Dr Erica Fletcher and Dr Andrew Tan (Medicine, Dentistry and Health Science) NeuroActive -- New Generation neuroscience Dr Steven Holloway (Veterinary Science) Developing a Strategy for Total Integration of the Veterinary Science Curriculum Centred on the LMS slides Session 4 Chaired by Dr Kelly Farrell (CSHE) Mr Mat Larkin, Dr Jennifer Lee and Mr Guido Ernst (Academic Services) CourseWorks: the online home of postgraduate courseworks students slides Professor Rod Keenan (Land and Food Resources) ‘Development of the Master of Forest Ecosystem Science: lessons for the development of new generation post-graduate coursework programs’ slides Dr Catherine Bennett (Medicine, Dentistry and Health Science) A Matrix Approach to Curriculum Review and Development slides Session 5 Chaired by Ms Chi Baik (CSHE) Dr Angela Woods and Dr David Martin (Melbourne School of Graduate Research) Engagement, Reflection, Connection: The Melbourne ePortfolio Framework for graduate researchers slides Dr Kerri-Lee Harris (CSHE, Education) LMS Framework for Subject Presence slides Mr Geoff Collinson (Music) Video Streaming Instrumental Lessons and Other Practical Activities
12.30-1.15	Showcasing Best Practice in Teaching at the University of Melbourne Introduced by Professor Peter McPhee, Provost Featuring University of Melbourne Teaching Award and Carrick Awards for Australian University Teaching (CAAUT) recipients. slides: Gleadow, Yue, Kentish, Love & Murray Listen to Showcasing Best Practice in Teaching at the University of Melbourne here
1.15-2.00pm	Lunch
2.00-3.00pm	2007 Vice-Chancellor's Teaching and Learning Keynote Address Teaching for Higher Learning: Research-based Strategies to Promote Critical and Creative Thinking slides Dr Tom Angelo, Professor of Higher Education, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Listen to Keynote Address here
3.00pm	Close

For further queries please contact:

Leanne Howard, CSHE

l.howard@unimelb.edu.au / 8344 6306

Melbourne Graduate School of Education Centre for the Study of Higher Education

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