Margaret Robson
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Adam Masters – Video presentation
Adam Masters Innovative Assessment Speaker bio Dr Adam Masters lectures in criminology for the Centre for Social Research and Methods at the Australian National University. As Convener of the Bachelor of Criminology, Adam convenes and teaches first year criminology theory, and later year courses on corruption and organised crime. In 2022, Dr Masters was Highly Commended in…
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Unessays – a practical guide
Carly Schuster The emergence of chatbots has sparked renewed debates about “the death” of essay-based assessments. And yet existing pedagogical tools such as “unessays” – which have been at the forefront of reimagining student writing and critical thinking – have not been central to those discussions. How might we use project-based “unessay” assessments in our…
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Rethinking the essay in Literary Studies: working with, against and around ChatGPT.
Russell Smith This semester I taught a course on Literary Theory that uses, as its primary text for analysis, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as well as a couple of films that play out the Frankenstein scenario in an AI context. Given that another key theme of Literary Theory is ‘The Death of the Author’, this course was already…
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Making the most of on-campus learning
Ange Stoddard, Melinda Drummond and April Chan. Lecture attendance and engagement is a challenge for all of us. Join us for an interactive workshop exploring how to motivate students to attend class and how to make the most of that time for their learning. We will share strategies and examples of how to promote active,…
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Incorporating ChatGPT into teaching and assessment
Daniel Casey ChatGPT has the potential to be a major disruptor both to teaching/learning/assessment, but also in our respective industries. We know politicians are using ChatGPT in their work, and that public servants are starting to experiment with it in policy development. So how should we respond in a university context? In semester 2, I will…
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Indigenous Australian Perspectives in Practice
Sarah-Jane Burton and Julieanne Lamond. Often when discussions take place around embedding Indigenous knowledges and perspectives into curricula, educators think first about content. This project looks beyond the ‘inclusive’ or ‘additive’ model of incorporating Indigenous knowledge into curricula, towards a consideration of what it might look like to meaningfully embed Indigenous knowledges and perspectives into…
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Rethinking delivery of Printmedia and Drawing with ANU MakerSpace
Rebecca Mayo. Our project aimed to improve our existing collaborative and student-led teaching framework between Printmedia students and the ANU MakerSpace through the production of a series of high-quality instructional videos, an online resource and a one-day MakerSpace intensive integrated into an existing printmedia course. We identified a need to scaffold the self-directed learning tasks and outcomes for students whose campus experience had been hindered by Covid-19 and remote learning. We also asked, how can the…
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SLLL Embedding Indigenous Knowledges and Perspectives in the Curriculum Working Group
Julieanne Lamond & Susy Macqueen This presentation will outline the approach taken by a group in SLLL which has been working since 2021 to support areas in the school in their development of approaches to embedding Indigenous knowledges and perspectives in curricula. SLLL is an interdisciplinary school – our teaching ranges across linguistics, modern European…
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