OLT projects – ‘Inside Story’ of the Good, the Bad and the UglyA collaborative initiative of ACU and HERDSA Vic BranchDate: Thursday, 21 November 2013Time: 2.00 pm to 5.15 pmVenue: Room 7.02, The Daniel Mannix Building, Melbourne Campus, Australian Catholic UniversityMap: http://www.acu.edu.au/about_acu/campuses/melbourne/travel_to_melbourne_campus/map SynopsisThe session aims to provide an update on two projects funded by the …
OLT Workshop: New Tools and Techniques for Learning in the Field
An open forum of current practice in mobile-supported student fieldwork Within the wider field of ‘mobile learning’, this forum will focus on opportunities to enhance the traditional field trip through new digital technologies. This can happen by providing rich learning materials in situ, by allowing students to collect and analyse new forms of data, through new forms of social interaction between students, or …
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Flipped Classroom Workshop: Update
Information about the Flipped Classroom workshop being held at UQ on 7th December has been updated (see links below) and registrations are now open. Registrations are now open for this interactive, experiential workshop run in flipped classroom mode. We invite you to join an ongoing community of practice and explore planning, sustainability, and tools and resources …
Science Workshop Invitation – Student-created digital science explanations
This is an invitation to science academics and science teacher education academics to attend a one-day workshop as part of an OLT National Senior Fellowship, Digital Explanations: Learning and Communicating Science with Student-created Digital Media (see Garry's OLTFlyer for details) to provide new ways for students to engage with science content by making different forms of …
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OLT National Senior Teaching Fellowship Symposium 2013
Wednesday 4 December, 11.00am - 5.00pm Monash University, Caulfield The symposium will showcase results from the OLT National Senior Teaching Fellowship - Developing Excellence in Teaching and Learning through a Peer Assisted Teaching Scheme (PATS). The day will also provide opportunities to learn more about participants' experiences of PATS, share ideas and innovations in teaching …
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Flipped Classroom Workshop
The OLT project: Flipping the Classroom is holding an interactive “flipped” workshop at UQ on 7th December. Explore the variety of understandings of and approaches to flipping the classroom, and plan for implementation and sustainability, Start to build a library of tools, advice and other resources to support flipped classrooms, and Create a community of practice …
Learning Futures Workshop
LEARNING FUTURES WORKSHOP Explore the Future of Learning A VTAS Promoting Excellence Network event held in collaboration with RMIT University The next VTAS Promoting Excellence workshop will provide an exciting and innovative opportunity to collaboratively explore the theme of “Learning Futures” with colleagues from across the higher education sector. This dynamic and interactive workshop is designed to …
Newsletter from DIICCSRTE’s Higher Education Division
The Higher Education Division of the Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education, produces an occasional newsletter Higher Education 2020. The August 2013 issue contains recent information about the activities of the Division and the OLT. You can view it here or download it below. HigherEducationNewsletterNo16
Final report: Addressing cultural diversity in health ethics education
A final report has recently been published for a University of Melbourne-led OLT grant: Addressing cultural diversity in health ethics education.More information about this project can be found here: http://www.olt.gov.au/resource-addressing-cultural-diversity-health-ethics-education%20The report can be downloaded below.CG9-1080_Fuscaldo_Report_ 2013Note: One of the aims of this network is 'Enabling post-project dissemination, engagement and therefore impact of research project outcomes and resources'. …
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Seed funding available – HERDSA
HERDSA is running a seed funding scheme for small projects of $2500. The scheme, Researching New Directions in Learning and Teaching, arising out of the HERDSA OLT Advancing Teaching and Learning Project will provide one-off seed funding to enable groups to meet, bring in expertise (such as educational researchers, OLT grant holders or fellows), draw …
VTAS Promoting Excellence Network 