Learning Lunch Box October 2013

October 17th 2013, Parkville

The next Learning Lunch Box, presented by the Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning & Teaching), will feature presentations by Dr Laurence Orlando, Dr Chris Thompson and Dr Leonie Cooper.

Date: Thursday 17th October 2013
Time: 12pm - 1pm
Venue: Large Meeting Room, 5th Floor, Building 404, Parkville
Please note: there is no yellow permit parking at Parkville.

Speaker 1: Dr Laurence Orlando, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science
Ensuring students' engagement in pre-class activity when moving to blending learning
Moving to blended learning (in a broad sense) has been proven to improve students’ learning but the question of engagement of students with the pre-class activities is often an issue. Implementing team-based learning (TBL) activities constitutes one efficient way to motivate students by providing a set of activities that are exciting and reward their engagement to self-directed learning.

Speaker 2: Dr Chris Thompson, Lecturer & 1st Year Coordinator, Faculty of Science
The Idea Experiments: Enabling Genuine Inquiry and Design Skills in the Undergraduate Chemistry Laboratory
The IDEA Experiments were developed to overcome some of the inherent challenges faced in first year science teaching laboratories. Firstly, a combination of online pre-lab activities including multimedia content and quizzes are integrated to enhance student preparation. Secondly, we hold a collaborative discussion, enabling students to exchange ideas before settling on the design of the experiment. Finally, the traditional lab script is removed, and students are given the responsibility for designing the experiment themselves.

Speaker 3: Dr Leonie Cooper, Lecturer, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
Marking the Mob: Can Moodle Help?
450 essays; 8 tutors; 4500 sheets of paper read by one assessor and returned (with written annotations and hopefully no coffee stains!) to students in class. A familiar scenario that has changed with the adoption of Moodle tools like the online submission and return of assignments using a marking rubric. But do such tools just facilitate the administration involved in assessing large cohorts (whilst saving a few trees) or lead to changes in how we work in a teaching team?

Videoconferencing with all campuses is available. 

Places are limited, so please book early.

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RSVP by Monday 14th Octboer 2013

If you would like more information on this event, please contact Rachel Saffer at rachel.saffer@monash.edu or telephone 99034478.