Part 1 – Creative Assessments

  • Team Based Learning and Collaborative Teaching

    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…

  • Against Maieutic Teaching and Learning

    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).…

  • Authentic Blending: small formative assessments using forums

    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…