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Sessional teachers include those who teach as casual staff, are paid on an hourly basis, fractional appointments less than 0.5FTE or those who may teach unpaid as part of their professional role. They include honours and postgraduate students, clinical academics, adjunct title holders, clinicians (...)

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.

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 (...)

New to teaching in higher education? Feeling as if you have been thrown in the deep end? Finding that, as sessional staff, you can’t get to the longer teaching professional development sessions? Help is at hand. Eight short, sharp workshops when you need it. This workshops focuses on engaging (...)

This is your chance to win awards, scholarships and receive experience at one of Australia's leading lung research institutions. Find out more about our scholarship program, meet with Heads of Units and chat with LIWA's past and present students.

Have you wanted to:

Create common unit related Frequently Asked Questions and Answers to reduce the number of similar questions from students?

Allow students to test their knowledge of unit materials?

Conduct an exam and have the results automatically recorded by (...)

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

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

Workshop Description: Have you ever needed to:

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Teachers are being stretched in their efforts to maintain high quality teaching, often in a time or resource-poor environment, and with an increasingly diverse student cohort. Ideas on how to establish and maintain a good learning experience for students by teaching smarter are explored. Strategies (...)

Assessment is, indeed has always been, a practice that is central to all teaching institutions. It happens, often, so instinctively that little thought goes into whether it is as good as it could be

Questions like the following are often not examined:

What is the difference (...)

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 (...)

LIWA presents the next in its series of the popular one-hour lunchtime lectures for anyone involved or interested in medical research.

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 (...)

Sessional teachers include those who teach as casual staff, are paid on an hourly basis, fractional appointments less than 0.5FTE or those who may teach unpaid as part of their professional role. They include honours and postgraduate students, clinical academics, adjunct title holders, clinicians (...)

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 (...)

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.

Have you ever wanted to know what your student are really doing in your LMS unit?

If so, then youwill find it invaluable to be able to use the LMS Student Tracking feature and interpret the results effectively.

This seminar will provide a demonstration and opportunities to (...)

Morning tea and lunch provided

Scientific Programme

08:30 – 08:40Prof Simon Brown Introduction

08:40 – 09:30Dr Stephen Macdonald The Multiple Markers in Chest pain (MiMiC) study; evaluation of a rapid biomarker-based assessment of suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome (...)

LIWA is pleased to present Rachel Ramsdale "Australian Imaging and Analysis Technology" plus guest speaker "Importance of Biotechnology"

Sessional teachers include those who teach as casual staff, are paid on an hourly basis, fractional appointments less than 0.5FTE or those who may teach unpaid as part of their professional role. They include honours and postgraduate students, clinical academics, adjunct title holders, clinicians (...)

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: