Teaching and Learning Showcase 2020

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…