Rebecca Ng
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Follow-up Workshops from 2021 CASS Teaching and Learning Showcase
The 2021 CASS Teaching and Learning Showcase was a great success – thank you to everyone who attended! You can now watch all videos on our website (view recordings here). Following conversations from the showcase, we have scheduled workshops open to all: 1. Team-Based Learning (TBL): 3 November 2021, 2.00 – 3.30pm Dr Ashley Carruthers…
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Against Maieutic Teaching and Learning
Professor Simone Dennis, School of Archaeology and Anthropology Even in the thick of research led teaching, it is very easy to retain a maieutic relationship between teacher and student. Even here, teachers can be reduced to bringing known ideas to consciousness, something that Roslyn Diprose once described as paradigmatic of education in Australian universities (2000:124).…
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CASS Gender-Inclusive Teaching workshop
Facilitated by Dr Kelly Frame (CLT), Isabel Mudford (CASS), Melinda Drummond (CLT), Karlene Dickens (CLT) and Will Scates-Frances (CLT) The CASS Gender-Inclusive Teaching workshop is delivered through the “Every Voice” project – a campus-wide initiative funded by the ANU Gender Institute and the Centre for Learning and Teaching. The purpose of the workshop and the…
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Wattle Upgrade and Semester 1 Sites
Wattle upgrade – Unavailable between 14 and 15 December 2020 Wattle will be upgraded from version 3.5 to 3.9, including these key improvements between 14-15 Dec. The content of Wattle courses will not be changed by this upgrade. All the resources and activities of each course will be fully available after the upgrade. Please note that Wattle and any…
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Zooming Through the Semester – Come and Join the Madness
In the last two semesters, we’ve heavily relied on Zoom to facilitate remote learning. Each and everyone that we spoke to have had interesting (or not-so-pleasant) stories to tell about our Zoom sessions. Here are some of the top 5 we’ve heard. Do you have yours to share? Zoom bombing The issue of Zoom bombing…
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The robust flexibility of problem based learning models
Dr Rohan Nicol, School of Art and Design Learn how Rohan Nicol responded to the challenge of teaching jewellery making online when COVID-19 took us off campus, in March 2020. He will show how challenging times provided rich learning experiences and unexpectedly led to the emergence of the modern aristocrap, King of hoarders. Speaker Bio…
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An Interactive Model for Online and Remote Teaching as used in the School of Music
Tor Frømyhr, School of Music Speaker Bio Tor Frømyhr, is currently Head of Strings and Senior Lecturer in Performance (Strings) at the ANU School of Music, Canberra, Australia. He has toured extensively nationally and internationally with chamber ensembles including Rialannah String Quartet, Australian Contemporary Music Ensemble, Queensland Piano Trio, Ensemble I, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Melbourne…
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Embracing virtuality in a music school in Covid-19 time
Associate Professor Kim Cunio, School of Music This presentation will cover the formation of virtual orchestras, choirs and pianos during the 2020 Pandemic. Speaker Bio A/Prof Kim Cunio, Head of the School of Music at the Australian National University (ANU), is an activist composer interested in old and new musics and the role of intercultural…
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Teaching in ‘Zoomland’: Troublesome knowledge, liminality and the virtual design studio
Dr Beck Davis, School of Art and Design Effective learner engagement with troublesome knowledge—conceptually difficult knowledge that may seem counter-intuitive, incoherent or even “alien” (Perkins, 1999)—is an important part of the learning experience. A key role of the educator is to tolerate learner confusion (Cousin, 2006), and to create learning environments that can “hold” learners…
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Enhance academic experiences with non-AI chatbots
Aslam Abbas, Collect.Chat Chatbots have moved on from being a buzz-word to a real-world tool to make the web more human-friendly. For the past three years, Aslam has been working towards making online interactions, better through human-friendly chatbots with his company, Collect.chat. Rather than building AI chatbots, Aslam’s approach is to keep it as simple…
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