RMIT University, Melbourne, 4-5 April 2013

NTEU National Teaching Conference

Fourth Draft Program with confirmed speakers (15/03/13)

Thursday 4 April

9.00 Registration

9.45 WELCOME TO COUNTRY: Aunty Dot Peters

WELCOME TO CONFERENCE: Jeannie Rea NTEU President

10.20 – 10.45 WELCOME & KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Professor Margaret Gardner, Vice Chancellor, RMIT University and Chair of the Strategic Advisory Committee of the Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT)

10.45 - 11.00 MORNING TEA

Day 1 focus is on the daily issues of learning and teaching practitioners

11.00 – 1.00 SESSION 1: Learning and teaching in the digital age

Blended learning, online platforms, Intellectual Property, the cloud, MOOCs, pedagogies, mass system, diverse student cohorts, flipped classroom,

Key questions: What characterises and distinguishes university teaching? What is the ‘classroom” now?

CHAIR: TBC

 Professor Warren Bebbington, Vice Chancellor, University of Adelaide (20 mins)  Teaching and Learning in the Neoliberal University Professor Raewyn Connell, University Chair, University of Sydney (20 mins)  Doing dumb things with smart technology Professor Paul Turnbull, Professor of eHistory, University of Queensland  Deconstructing the myths of MOOCs Professor Stuart Bunt, School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, University of Western Australia, NTEU Western Australian Division President

1.00 – 1.45 LUNCH

1.45 – 3.15 SESSION 2: Curriculum and assessment in a mass system

Assessment, cheating and academic integrity, negotiated curriculum, transitioning from elite to mass classrooms, class sizes, future for specialist & intensive disciplines, pathways across tertiary system, evaluation, graduate attributes, learning analytics, student surveys, peer assessment, standards.

Key questions: Who controls curriculum? In whose interests? To what ends?

CHAIR: TBC

 Learning analytics Professor Shirley Alexander, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Teaching, Learning & Equity), University of Technology Sydney http://www.nteu.org.au/ntc2013 JRea – NTC second draft full program 030313

 Problematising assessment & issues in academic integrity, TBC  Measuring and assessing teaching and student evaluation surveys Cathy Rytmeister, Learning and Teaching Centre, Macquarie University, NTEU Academic Vice President NSW Division  Redesigning curriculum & outcomes Dr Andrew Funston, Dr Brian Zammit & Dr Julie Fletcher, Victoria University (20 mins)

3.15 – 3.30 AFTERNOON TEA

3.30 – 5.15 SESSION 3: What do students want (and need?)

ALL student panel, engagement, ‘university experience’, student-centred learning, student evaluation, customers/clients/consumers, uses and misuses of metrics & surveys, universal system and diverse cohorts, expectations of student administration & services, in and outside the ‘classroom’.

CHAIR: Jade Tyrell, President, National Union of Students

 Les Alderton, PhD candidate, University of Ballarat  Meghan Hopper, President ,Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations (CAPA),  Clare Leyes-Liley NUS National Education Officer  Aleem Nazari President, Council of International Student Associations (CISA)  First year student tbc  RMIT student tbc

5.30 – 7.30 RECEPTION and Q&A: Chair: Julie Hare, Higher Education Editor, The Australian (Open to public)

PANELLISTS - TBC

Friday 5 April

9.00 Registration

Day 2 focuses upon the frameworks, policies and practices that frame daily experience

9.15 – 11.00 SESSION 4: The work of University teaching

Efficacy of workload models, changing nature of academic work, ‘taylorised’ or ‘unbundled’, realities and consequences of casualisation of teaching, new professional roles (in design, development & support), ties to research, differentiating tertiary teaching modes, evaluation & performance instruments.

Key questions: What does it mean to be an academic? What work is involved?

CHAIR: Dr Kelvin Michael, University of Tasmania, NTEU Vice President (Academic)

 Teaching and Research Dr Susan Mayson, Monash University  Teaching-focussed academic appointments: recognition, specialisation, or stratification? Professor Belinda Probert  Blurred boundaries: the new professionals Dr Lynda Davies, Griffiths University, NTEU Vice President (General Staff  The limits of academic workload models http://www.nteu.org.au/ntc2013 JRea – NTC second draft full program 030313

Steve Mackey, Deakin University, NTEU Branch President and Ted Clarke, University of Melbourne, NTEU Branch President.

11.00 – 11.15 MORNING TEA

11.15 – 1.00 SESSION 5: Autonomy and accountability

TEQSA, AQF, funding models, standards, performance measures, structures of awards, approvals processes, TAFE/Higher ED interface, governance, integrity, relationship between external and internal ...

Key question: How does external policy, regulation & funding impact upon internal university policies, budget decisions and practices.

CHAIR: Cathy Rytmeister, Macquarie University

 A Matter of course: Perspectives on agency, autonomy, accountability and the standards agenda Professor Glenn Finger, Dean (Learning and Teaching), AEL, Griffiths University  The perils of accountability for quality pedagogy Stephen Darwin, NTEU Division Secretary (ACT)  Between micro-managers and cookie-cutters: teaching and academic autonomy Associate Professor Andrew Bonnell, University of Queensland, NTEU Qld Division President,  Market design and market failure in the allocation of Australian university places Paul Kniest, NTEU National Policy and Research Coordinator

1.00 – 1.45 LUNCH

1.30 – 3.15 SESSION 6: Internationalisation of curriculum and mission

Australian perspectives including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, teaching diverse students, international demand, university rankings, contributing to human rights and social justice education, ecological sustainability, contesting the ‘crowded curriculum’, role of universities in human development.

Key question: What is the role of Australian university teaching and courses in the international realm?

CHAIR: TBC

 Internationalisation of curriculum on and off shore, TBC  Teaching students to be good global citizens Professor James Arvanitakis, UWS, 2012 University Teacher of the Year  Australian Indigenous perspectives and experience Terry Mason, UWS, Chair NTEU Indigenous Policy Committee  The Asian century Dr Yuko Kinoshita, Japanese Program Convenor, University of Canberra

3.15 – 3.45 PLENARY & CLOSING COMMENTS (CHAIR: Jeannie Rea with Session Chairs)

3.45 – 4.00 AFTERNOON TEA

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