ALTC Professional Development Workshop

Effective Learning, Effective Teaching in the Quantitative Disciplines

September 29-30, 2011
University of Wollongong, New South Wales

This practical, hands-on and interactive workshop will immediately follow the Australian Mathematical Society 55th Annual Meeting at the University of Wollongong (26-29 September, 2011). It has been designed specifically for lecturers and tutors teaching in the quantitative disciplines.

It has been funded by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.

Schedule

The workshop will commence with a social and a talk from 17:00 on Thursday September 29 (following the close of the AustMS Annual Meeting). Sessions will be held from 09:00 to 16:00 on Friday September 30. The workshop program will be posted at a later date.

Registration

Attendance is free. Travel support for students may be available upon application.

 
If you wish to attend both the Professional Development Workshop and the AustMS Annual Meeting, please register here.

Venue

The University of Wollongong, New South Wales

Sessions

The workshop will provide practical ways of sharing and developing strategies drawn from best practice in mathematics education. Participants and facilitators will work in small groups in interactive sessions to enable peer learning. Sessions will cover:

 

• Service teaching
• Collaborative learning
• Assessment
• Peer review
• Professional development
• Learning technologies

Plenary Speakers

Laureate Professor Jonathan Bordwein, University of Newcastle
More to be announced

Presenters

Professor Walter Bloom, Murdoch University
Dr Christine Brown, University of Wollongong
Dr Paul Denny, University of Auckland
Associate Professor David Easdown, The University of Sydney
Dr Mark Nelson, University of Wollongong
Dr Caz Sandison, University of Wollongong
Dr Katherine Seaton, LaTrobe University
Associate Professor Leigh Wood, Macquarie University

Contact

Previous workshops

Read about the proceedings of the 2010 Professional Development Workshop held at The University of Queensland. Abstracts and slides for the workshop sessions are available at the ALTC workshop 2010 page.

Project information

This workshop is being run as part of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council project. Read more about how the team is developing a professional development unit for lecturers and tutors in the quantitative disciplines.