Program

Day 1 – Thursday 28 January

Thursday 28 January – Building 32
8.00-9.00 Registration, coffee/tea: Foyer, Building 32
9.00-9.10 Plenary session Lecture theatre, Building 32 Forum opening
9.10-10.10 Keynote address: Professor Marnie Hughes-Warrington, PVC Teaching & Learning, Monash University
10.10-10.20 Keepad data collection
10.20-10.45 Morning tea: Foyer, Building 32
Parallel Session 1
Venue 7.103 8.305 8.211 8.213 7.104
10.45-11.10 Joyce Hendricks & Vicki Cope The multigenerational workforce: A challenge to leaders and managers Jennifer Pearson Evaluating pre-service primary science education: Self efficacy and beliefs Elaine Tay & Matthew Allen The social side of social media: Technology or collaboration? Lorraine Bennett A framework for leading systematic, strategic and sustainable improvement Alexandra Ludewig & Tracy Dunne Improving student engagement through a structured peer support program involving international students
11.15-11.40 Linda Riebe, Dean Roepen & Bruno Santarelli Getting the teamwork edge: Sustaining skills for future employability Brenda Hamlett Supporting pre-service primary teachers to improve their mathematics content knowledge Matthew Allen & Elaine Tay The pragmatic portfolio: An assessment approach for distributed learning Doug Atkinson & Susan Bolt Using teaching observations to reflect upon and improve teaching practice in higher education Neville R. Ellis A place-identity mediated model of homesickness in first year university students experiencing a rural-to-urban relocation
11.45-12.10 Selma Alliex Sustainability of future professionals Laura Stocker & Kathryn Netherwood Relational education for sustainability Tama Leaver I tweet therefore I am? Challenges in learning identity by teaching web presence Eileen Thompson, Sue Miller & Bonnie Thomas Recognising, enhancing and developing sessional teachers: A sustainable approach Jaya Earnest, Gabriella de Mori, Mariana Jorge & Amanda Timler Strategies to enhance the well-being of refugee youth in universities in WA
12.15-12.40 Beverley Oliver & Barbara Whelan Facilitating national benchmarking of achievement of graduate attributes and employability skills at course level Jennifer Pearson Climate change: Creating online education in Western Australian primary schools Atul Chandra Why and how can we teach e-citizens with e-books? Iris Vardi Investigating attrition at the course level
12.45 – 1.45 PM Lunch, Building 32
12.45-1.40 Lunch: Foyer, Building 32 1.15-1.40 HERDSA WA Annual General Meeting
Parallel Session 2
Venue 7.103 8.305 8.211 8.213 7.104
1.45-2.10 Coral Pepper Sustaining change in higher education Marco Cuevas-Hewitt Varieties of English in Australian higher education: An intersectional analysis of dialect and race in student experiences of dis-advantage Michael Connor The talk resource: Education, sustainability and communication economics through audience response systems and dialogue Rowena H. Scott Environmental and social sustainability impacts of teaching and research: Some ideas 55 minute workshop Lorraine Bennett Practical application of the engaging leadership framework
2.15-2.40 Heather Sparrow Surviving and sustaining teaching excellence: A narrative of entrapment Anne Harris Addressing English language proficiency in a Business faculty Philip Marriott Migrating courses to Moodle Belinda O’Brien Turn it off: A case study on environmental leadership
2.45-3.10 Trudi Cooper & Rowena H. Scott Sustainability, survival and engagement: implications for curriculum and pedagogy Katie Dunworth From remediation to development: Towards a sustainable approach to student English language proficiency Lisa Cluett Using online social networking for outreach, engagement and community: A case study in using Facebook
3.15-3.30 Refreshments: Foyer, Building 32
Parallel Session 3
Venue 7.103 8.305 8.211 8.213 7.104
3.30-3. 55 Joyce Hendricks, Vicki Cope, Maureen Harris & Lynne Cohen Growing our own: A leadership program in an undergraduate nursing program in WA Jennifer Pearson & Brad Kruger Early years science: Delving into dinosaurs with the Western Australian Museum Chantal Bourgault du Coudray Linking reflective practice and creative work: Vocational training for the creative industries Jacqueline Flowers Evidence of quality: The teaching criteria framework at UWA 55 minute workshop Michael Connor Raising and sustaining dialogue in large groups with audience response systems
4.00-4.25 Annie Das The use of video as an assessment tool: The perceptions of staff and students in a School of Nursing Elaine Horne Support for educators in experiential biodiversity and sustainability education Tim Pitman, Susan Broomhall, Elzbieta Majocha & Joanne McEwan Transformative learning in educational tourism Brad Stappenbelt & Chris Rowles Embedding sustainability education in the engineering curriculum through a nationaldesign competition
4.30-4.55 Manonita Ghosh Students’ perceptions and attitudes towards the evaluation of university teaching Jo Elliott & Dominique Blache Student attitudes and preferences towards non-invasive animal-based and computer-based practicals Lauren K. Banting & Ben Jackson Predicting effort, enjoyment and performance in a tertiary practical class using aspects of self-determination theory
5.00 Sundowner: Cafeteria 9.207, overlooking the lake

Day 2 – Friday 29 January

8.30-9.00 Registration, coffee/tea: Foyer, Building 32
9.00-10.00 Plenary session Lecture theatre, Building 32 Keynote address: Professor Jan Herrington, Professor of Education, Murdoch University
10.00-10.05 NetSpot presentation – Allan Christie
10.00-10.25 Morning tea: Foyer, Building 32
Parallel Session 4
Venue 7.103 8.305 8.211 8.213 7.104
10.30-10.55 Denise Chalmers, Siri Barrett-Lennard & Nancy Longnecker Developing a communications skills framework Nita Sodhi-Berry & Helena Iredell Students’ perceptions of a change in pre-clinical medical curriculum delivery from problem based learning to case based learning Shane Henderson & Mark McMahon A win-win-win situation: Engaging in learning, research and marketing through creative technologies Trina Jorre de St Jorre & Penny Hawken Are we on the same page? Differences of understanding between staff and students around the instruction of academic integrity 55 minute workshop Melissa Davis, Jon Yorke, Kathryn Lawson, et al Can we develop sustainable approaches to moderation?
11.00-11.25 Jasmine Henry Development of online laboratory report assistant Sandy Thomson, Joan Sheppard & Robert Laing First do no harm: Using systems thinking to build capacity and capability and sustain knowledge on safety and quality for health professionals Greg B. Maguire Two online tools for feedback on grammar and style in academic writing Salim Siddiqui, Robert Loss, Aidan Hotan, Ming Lim & Marjan Zadnik Designing a comprehensive rubric for laboratory report assessment
11.30-11.55 Rose Carnes Big Ears and Noddy: Listening as a necessary academic skill Richard Bostwick & Michael Monisse-Redman Getting ready for industry: Mental Health (Nursing) unit curriculum review Yvonne Button & Silvia Dewiyanti UWA’s strategy for sustainable online units Fiona Burrows Student and teacher perceptions of assessment and constructive alignment in creative writing units Marguerite Cullity & Glenda Campbell-Evans Improving quality of student learning through moderated assessment
12.00-12.25 Kaye Haddrill, Phil Hancock & Eileen Thompson English enrichment in an accounting conversion program Robert Waller Grading clinical practice: Are performance standards the answer? Jianhong (Cecilia) Xia & Shelley Yeo The impact of diverse student backgrounds and flexible delivery modes on assessment outcomes Jo Jung & Shane Henderson ClimbIt as an interdisciplinary learning and teaching tool Rosemary Kerr & Vimala Amirthalingam Managing professional judgment in an undergraduate presentation assessment
12.30-1.25 Lunch: Foyer, Building 32
Parallel Session 5
Venue 7.103 8.305 8.211 8.213 7.104
1.30-1.55 Pamela Martin-Lynch Teaching for persistence and achievement Will Gibson & Katharine Smith Painful failure or painful beginnings? Delivering ‘pain’ education online to undergraduate physiotherapy students Cedric Beidatsch & Susan Broomhall Teaching smarter? The place of workshops in the curricula for undergraduate history teaching Suzanne Passmore Intersectional outcomes in women’s studies: Student perceptions and practice 55 minute workshop Nancy Longnecker, Will Rifkin, Joan Leach &Lloyd Davis Student publication in new media
2.00-2.25 Maria M. Ryan & Madeleine Ogilvie Overseas students in Australia: An experiential view Robin Watts, Leah Irving, Kim Flintoff & John Lin Wen Ying Virtual wound clinic: Using a virtual world for inter-professional healthcare education Lesley Silvester How do undergraduates perceive the place of history within their wider university studies? Rebecca Rey & Golnar Nabizadeh Going places: Cultural studies and praxis
2.30-2.55 Iris Vardi From scholarship to publication in a journal: Insights from a guest editor Rebecca J. Crawford, Peter J. Fazey & Kevin P. Singer Teaching and learning in postgraduate manual therapy education Jill Howieson ‘I am if you are’: An interesting paradox in role-play case simulation training Natalie Latter Confronting fatalism in teaching climate change: Reflections on an undergraduate international relations unit
3.00-3.25 Manisha Dayal & Will Gibson Anatomical knowledge retention in final year pre-registration physiotherapy students Bronwyn Crowe Opportunities and challenges of units simultaneously taught to undergraduate and postgraduate students Dale Sanders & Megan Le Clus Sustainability in the tourism curricula in Australian universities: Beyond the rhetoric?
3.30-3.50 Plenary session Lecture theatre, Building 32 Presentation of best paper awards Forum prizes Forum evaluation and closure