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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:

Have you ever wanted to create and publish opportunities for students to review unit materials independently through online activities such as crosswords, self tests, flashcards and hang man?

If so, then you will fine using StudyMate to create and publish LMS activities an innovative (...)

Students' opinions and perceptions of anonymous assessment seem pitted again most faculties' practices and rationales

To resolve the stale-mate, FAHSS is leading the way to an open dialogue. This involves a panel discussion, as part of the Faculty's Teaching and Learning Month's (...)

May is Teaching and Learning Month at UWA.

Teaching and Learning Month is all about discovering, discussing, pursuing, celebrating and valuing excellence in teaching and learning at UWA.

The theme of Teaching and Learning Month 2009 is ‘Engaging Students Through the (...)

This workshop is a follow-up to An Introduction to Problem-Based Learning.

This workshop is recommended to those implementing PBL activities into their teaching as it addresses some of the specific considerations, particularly related to group work, that are likely to arise.

Intended audience: UWA staff who are advanced users of UWA's LMS and interested in learning the tips and tricks to mastering the LMS Grade Book.

Have you ever wanted to manage student access and grades in one central location?

If so, then youwill find it invaluable to be able (...)

Professor Larry Michaelsen has pioneered Team Based Learning (TBL), a comprehensive small-group based instructional process that is now used in over 80 academic disciplines worldwide.

Team-based learning increases individual and group engagement in class and encourages students to take (...)