What's On at UWA

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:

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.

Australia is sometimes portrayed as a dangerous place, bulging with an array of deadly animals. Envenoming syndromes (toxicity due directly to the venom) occur most commonly to snake and redback spider bites on land and a variety of jellyfish in the sea. However the majority of deaths are caused by (...)

A workshop by Distinguished Visiting Teacher, Dr Chris Rust. Dr Rust is being brought to Australia by the ALTC.

The importance of assessment, and especially feedback, and its effect on student learning, and students’ approaches to learning, is widely acknowledged in the literature. But (...)

Presented by Douglas Osheroff, J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood Professor of Physics, Stanford University and 1996 recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics (with co-recipients David M. Lee and Robert C. Richardson).

How advances in science are made, and how they may come to benefit mankind at (...)

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 (...)

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 (...)

A free public lecture by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, Director of the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative

Research on how people learn is now revealing how many teachers misinterpret what students are thinking and learning from traditional science classes and exams. However, research (...)