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The Foundations of University Teaching and Learning programme is offered every semester to support staff relatively new to the University as well as staff with teaching experience who wish to refine, test out, validate or develop their present conceptions of good teaching and their current teaching (...)

Foundations of University Teaching and Learning is designed to offer an integrated and highly interactive perspective on teaching in a research-intensive university. The programme provides a theoretical framework relating to teaching and learning, along with opportunities to explore a range of (...)

Have you ever wanted to:

Communicate important study related events to your students? Provide a unit outline and learning materials in a central location? Manage access and release results to individual students?

If you answered yes to any or all of these questions then you (...)

The Teaching and Learning Orientation aims to provide new teaching staff with an overview of teaching and learning policy and practice at UWA as well as information on campus-wide services that support teaching and learning.

In this workshop, you will examine a range of strategies for facilitating discussion and running engaging, interactive classes. The workshop is aimed at those of you who are new to tutoring or looking to develop your teaching skills.

Teaching in the laboratory or workshop setting can often become a routine process that does not take full advantage of the opportunities to improve student learning. This workshop will introduce you to strategies to enhance student engagement and communication between teacher and students, making (...)

The strength of a teaching portfolio or award submission often rests on the quality of evidence provided to support it. This session will examine what constitutes robust evidence. It is a good follow-up to 'Developing your Teaching Portfolio'.

At the end of the session, you will:

These workshops aim to assist participants:

In developing a clear understanding of their role and responsibilities as a supervisor, and what they can expect of postgraduate students;

To develop productive working relationships with their postgraduate students, to identify the (...)

Studies clearly show that in ‘traditional’ lectures, students attention declines rapidly after 15 minutes. Thus, while students retain 70% of the first ten minutes of a lecture, they only retain 20% of the last ten minutes. ‘Active Learning’ aims to involve students in the learning process, so that (...)

THIS SESSION WILL NOW BE HELD AS PART OF THE "Introduction to Academic Portfolios" workshop

Effective teaching is a central aspect of an academic career at UWA. This workshop will focus on the criteria and evidence that can be included in a teaching portfolio and used for PDR (...)

These workshops aim to assist participants:

In developing a clear understanding of their role and responsibilities as a supervisor, and what they can expect of international students;

To develop productive working relationships with their international students, to identify (...)

This session will be conducted by members of the ALTC-funded Student Resilience and Diversity project from Edith Cowan University who will share results of this longitudinal study to date. This presentation is planned to be interactive. There will be the opportunity to learn how the findings (...)

UWA set ethical scholarshop as a high priority for all its students. Policies, procedures and resources are in place to support this. In this workshop, you will be introduced to these so that your understanding of your role in the management of academic conduct and misconduct is clear.

UWA staff interested in exploring ways to support group work activities and customise the student learning experience.

Prerequisites: Quickstart Guide to Developing your 2009 LMS unit (or equivalent)

Have you ever wanted to:

Allow students to sign up to their own (...)

Intended Audience: UWA staff interested in using LMS Assignments as part of their teaching.

Prerequisites: Quickstart Guide to Developing your 2009 LMS unit (or equivalent)and Creating Group Activities and Selectively Releasing Learning Materials with UWA's LMS

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Intended Audience: UWA staff interested in learning the tips and tricks of managing LMS Assignments.

Prerequisites: Quickstart Guide to Developing your 2009 LMS unit (or equivalent) and Creating Assignments in UWA's LMS

Workshop Description: Have you ever needed to:

This workshop will be conducted by members of the ALTC-funded project from the University of Melbourne. The project investigated students' and teachers' use of new technologies across eight Australian universities. In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how emerging technology based tools can be (...)

When we think about team teaching we start to ask questions like: how would you do this; and, if you did, why would you do it? This workshop addresses these questions by providing an opportunity to learn about various team teaching approaches as ways of making the teaching and learning environment (...)

Intended Audience: UWA staff who are advanced users of UWA's LMS and interested in creating assessments offline and publishing them to the LMS

Have you ever wanted to create and maintain your assessments offline and publish them to LMS when you are ready

If so, then you will (...)

In this workshop you will discuss the basic principles of Problem Based Learning. Discussions will include advantages and disadvantages of PBL and some areas of curriculum development, problem writing and tutor training.

At the completion of this workshop you should be able to: