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**2011 Seminars are currently being planned and will commence in March. Please check back here in mid-February for full details**

January 27th, 2011 · No Comments · Announcements, Events

**2011  Seminars are currently being planned and will commence in March.  Please check back here in mid-February for full details**

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Upcoming Seminar: Discussion about use of Wikipedia and other online sources of information in the classroom and the concept of authoritative or scholarly information

August 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Announcements, Events, Technology Enabled Learning & Teaching

Margaret Blackmore, UNSW Library 23 August, 12.30 – 2pm Learning & Teaching Workshop (Room 416), Level 4 Mathews Building This is a facilitated discussion session.  Please feel free to bring along your lunch.  If you have general TELT questions there will also be time to discuss these. You must register to attend at: www.edtec.unsw.edu.au/event_rego/events.cfm Questions?  […]

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Upcoming Seminar – Work-centred Learning: Lessons Learned after 10 years of Practice

August 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Announcements, Events, Technology Enabled Learning & Teaching

A/Prof Sami Kara, Faculty of Engineering 9 August, 12.30 pm – 2.00 pm, Learning & Teaching Workshop (Room 416), Level 4 Mathews Building, Kensington Campus Course coordinator Dr Sami Kara will show how a first-year course in Design and Manufacturing was redesigned to mirror a real-life design and manufacturing project, of the kind that professional […]

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Upcoming Seminar – The Flat World has Swung Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education

July 13th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Announcements, Events, Technology Enabled Learning & Teaching

The Flat World has Swung Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education Prof Curtis Bonk, University of Indiana 16 July, 10.00am – 11.30am, Learning & Teaching Workshop (Room 416), Level 4 Mathews Building, Kensington Campus Building on Thomas Friedman’s book, The World is Flat, Curt Bonk’s new book “The World is Open” offers an intriguing […]

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New Resources Available

May 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Announcements, Resources, Showcasing Teaching, Uncategorized

We’ve added new resources to the ‘Seminar Resources’ page (see right), including: John Shepherd (Engineering) and Alison Rutherford (Medicine) discussing the use of Roleplay in Teaching Simon McIntyre (COFA) discussing the ‘Learning to Teach Online‘ Project Christopher Walker (FASS) dsicussing the use of Case Studies in Social Sciences Slides from Stephen Kaufman’s presentation ‘Case Based […]

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Upcoming: Exploring Threshold Concepts, 28th October 12-1.30pm

October 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Announcements, Events, Exploring Threshold Concepts

This will be the first seminar in the ‘Exploring Threshold Concepts Series’. The aims of these sessions are twofold – firstly to showcase research that is being done into the area of threshold concepts at UNSW secondly, to provide the opportunity for participates to discuss their own research – or potential research – into this […]

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Upcoming:Researching Learning and Teaching: Mapping areas of interest, Wednesday 21st October, 12 – 1.30pm

October 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Announcements, Events, Research, Researching Learning and Teaching

The first session of Researching Learning & Teaching seminar series will focus on discussions around the scholarship of learning and teaching and on identifying areas of interest and topics that participants would like to explore in future sessions. Researching Learning and Teaching sessions will offer opportunities for those investigating aspects of teaching and learning to […]

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Upcoming: Showcasing Teaching: Using Case studies in teaching, Wednesday 14th October, 12 – 1.30pm

October 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Announcements, Showcasing Teaching

This Connections – Showcasing Teaching seminar will be dedicated to the theme of Using case studies in teaching. Come and listen to a short presentation by your UNSW colleagues who use case studies in their teaching, and ask questions. This seminar will be more formal in structure and take the form of a presentation on […]

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Student engagement: facilitating a transformative learning experience, 7th October 2009

September 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Announcements, Talking about Teaching

Through the interactive session at the L&T Forum 09 the UNSW community came up with a list of factors that contribute to student engagement (the original Etherpad list is available at the L&T Forum 09 wiki). From this list we have been able to distinguish four characteristics of a learning environment that facilitates student engagement. […]

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Launching CONNECTIONS in Learning and Teaching – 2009

September 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Announcements

A suite of four monthly seminars under the heading of CONNECTIONS will be facilitated by Learning and Teaching at UNSW. All seminars will be held on Wednesday from 12-1:30pm in the Climate Change Research Centre seminar room, level 4, Mathews Building (next door to L&T workshop room 416). 1. Talking about Teaching This monthly seminar […]

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