Educating professionals is the focus of teaching and learning at the Australian Technology Network of Universities. The ATN aims to ensure that our graduates are strategic and creative thinkers, who possess knowledge, professional competence, a sense of community responsibility, and who value life long learning. The ATN Teaching and Learning Committee (TALC) is focused on the effective use of educational technology.
Convenor, 2007: Dr Jo McKenzie, Director, Institute for Interactive Media and Learning, UTS
ATN Evaluations and
Assessment conference 2007:
ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION FOR REAL WORLD LEARNING
The conference provides participants with the opportunity to explore ways to maximise real world learning through effective assessment and evaluation policies, procedures, and practices. Participants will engage with colleagues across disciplines as well as employers and students to focus on assessing learning outcomes and evaluating programs for preparing students for work in the real world. Keynote speakers include Professor Dai Hounsell (University of Edinburgh), Professor David Boud (University of Technology, Sydney and a Carrick Senior Fellow for 2008) and Professor David Gardiner (Queensland University of Technology).
Call for Papers: The Evaluations and Assessment Conference will be held at Queensland University of Technology, from November 29-30. The call for abstracts opened April 30 and closes at close of business on 30 June, 2007. Visit the conference website to submit your abstract.
Please direct enquiries to: eac2007@qut.edu.au
ATN Early Career Academics Symposium
The ATN TALC is hosting and co-sponsored a 2007 symposium for Early Career Academics, in order to promote interest in teaching and learning in academic staff in the early stages of their university careers. The symposium will be held at UTS from June 28-29.
Participants in the symposium are early career academics from across the ATN who have already shown evidence of scholarly and innovative teaching and potential for developing leadership in teaching. Participation is by invitation only, and the symposium offers opportunities for participants to share interesting and innovative teaching practices and develop. Invited speakers who will share their experience and scholarship with the group include Professor Shirley Alexander (UTS), Professor Keith Trigwell (University of Sydney and incoming president of the International Society for Scholarship in Teaching and Learning), Professor Richard Johnston (Director, Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education) Dr Sigi Goode and Dr Philip Morgan (Winners of Carrick Early Career Teaching Awards) and Professor Sally Kift (QUT, Carrick Senior Fellow).
By encouraging new academic staff to start their professional development as early as possible, the ATN is helping to ensure the continuing and future high quality of its programs, courses and research initiatives.
ATN Evaluation of On-line Learning Project
The project, which involved all the ATN Universities in surveying staff and students on their uses and perceptions of on-line learning, was implemented over September and October 2004.
A core set of questions was completed by students and staff from all the ATN Universities, with each university also having the opportunity to include additional questions to address their specific on-line learning priorities. The ATN TALC group was delighted with the response to the student survey as over 20,000 students from across the ATN completed the surveys making this the largest student survey of on-line learning conducted in Australia. The staff survey had a response of over 800 staff members from across the ATN.
The ATN TALC group is now following up this project with a proposal to the Carrick Institute for a project on peer review in blended learning and e-learning environments, aimed at facilitating the sharing of good practices in learning and teaching and developing ways of providing peer evidence of these practices for promotion and recognition.