Teaching and learning showcase 2021
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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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Team Based Learning and Collaborative Teaching
Ashley Carruthers, School of Archaeology & Anthropology In this presentation I want to talk about a couple of assessment structures I’ve used in my teaching that are quite different to the usual. The first is based on an adaptation of the standard Team Based Learning model – one which originated in business schools, and has…
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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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Taking the leap: integrating new approaches into teaching and learning
Christina Clarke, Centre for Art History & Art Theory There is growing pressure on educators in higher education to explore new approaches in teaching, with a proliferation of novel techniques such as the flipped classroom, new resources such as technology-enhanced teaching facilities and increasing promotion of pedagogical theory in higher education. This pressure has been…
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The ‘Crawford Combined’ teaching model for 2021: principles and experiences
Alison Cumming-Thom, Crawford School of Public Policy In September 2020. a Crawford School Education Futures Working Group developed a model for teaching delivery in 2021. Based in both the constraints (restricted international movement, limited room fitouts and other technical constraints) and opportunities (increased domestic market, increase in skills) brought about by 2020, the approach looked…
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A perspective on First Peoples’ ways of learning and teaching
Mary Spiers Williams, Sub Dean Indigenous Studies speaker bio Mary began teaching at universities in 1999, initally undergraduate criminal law course. Since then she has continued to teach criminal law and procedure, as well as advanced courses in criminal justice and sentencing, courses on the impact of state laws on First Peoples, youth law, criminology,…
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The hybrid classroom: Teacher and student perspectives
Susy Macqueen, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics Hybrid-concurrent teaching involves teaching both in-person and remote students at the same time. In this talk, I will first describe how I went about simultaneous online and in-person teaching using a basic toolkit of Zoom and Wattle. After exploring the technical aspects, I’ll discuss my teaching experience…
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Teaching with Google Docs
Helen Keane, School of Sociology We’ll be talking about our use of Google Docs in online and hybrid teaching this year. Google Docs is perhaps the most boring and basic EduTech tool, but as we faced the challenges of engaging students online, we have come to value its simplicity and reliability. We will focus on our use…
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Authentic Blending: small formative assessments using forums
Johannes (Jos) Mulder, School of Music This presentation will cover two examples of small formative, low stakes’ assessments using Moodle (Wattle) forums. Regular (eg biweekly) posts about real world examples require the inclusion of an embedded example (citation, photo, video, recording). Additionally students are required to respond to two posts by peers in an engaging…
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