1. Issue 39 of SaMnet’s monthly newsletter
This
Month’s Question:
Interested
in hosting a SaMnet leadership and/or SoTL workshop in your capital city in
2016? SaMnet HQ are happy to assist.
Suggest a timeframe
and area of focus. Indicate what role you would undertake - hosting,
co-facilitating, facilitating segments, etc. Guess what level of
attendance - 3 colleagues, 15 from your faculty, 35 from across the university?
We can
provide soft copies of handouts, lesson plan/run sheet for a typical workshop,
coaching on organising, advertising, running.
Expressions
of interest are due 1 December to facilitate planning for 2016.
Please contact samnetaustralia@gmail.com
2. Conferences &
publication
Shine Dome,
Canberra, 8-10 December 2015
This forum will
see the launch of the Bioscience Education Australia Network (BEAN), the new
umbrella network combining CUBEnet and VIBEnet; as well as hosting the
Mathbench Symposium, which will launch and demonstrate the Mathbench-Australia
website.
LaTrobe
University, Melbourne, 4-5 December, 2015
This is the
inaugural Australian regional conference of HAPS, the largest society of human
physiology and anatomy teaching professionals.
Poster and
workshop submissions are open until Friday 20 November.
Regular
registrations are open until Thursday 12 November.
Pan Pacific
Hotel, Perth, 29 June -2 July 2016
The STARS
conference makes its way to Perth in 2016.
Past:
The OLT Future of Tertiary Education Workshop
– Adelaide, SA
International Society for Scholarship of
Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) 2015 - Melbourne, VIC
Future:
National Advancing Science and Engineering through Laboratory Learning (ASELL) Science Workshop
National Advancing Science and Engineering through Laboratory Learning (ASELL) Science Workshop
Monash
University, 25-27 November, 2015
Online
registrations are now closed.
Shine Dome,
Canberra, 8-10 December 2015
Online registrations
are open until Friday 27 November.
Melbourne, 11 December
2015
Keep this date free;
more information about registrations will be made available closer to the event.
University of
Technology Sydney, 11 December 2015
This is an all
day workshop; more information will be made available closer to the event.
4. SaMnet activity
As we approach
the end of the calendar year, SaMnet is interested in what you have achieved
this year and what you have planned for next year.
Do you have an
initiative, project or interest to chare with the community that you would like
feedback on? Do you have any publications that you wish to disseminate to the
wider SaMnet community? Please contact us at samnetaustralia@gmail.com
5. Scholarship of Teaching
and Learning (SoTL)
Innovation
and entrepreneurship are the themes for this month’s section:
Deba Dutta for Inside Higher Ed
The
drive to instil innovation skills in students comes with a question – can students
actually learn how to innovate? The author suggests that while innovation cannot
be directly taught, there are other mechanisms by which we can help students
embrace innovation. What steps do you think are necessary to embrace a cultural
change towards innovation and entrepreneurship in your institution?
Karen MacGregor for University World News
Entrepreneurship
and work-integrated learning are being prioritised around the world in order to
address the needs of students in changing socio-economic times. Does this
reflect the Australian environment, and how should Australian universities respond
to this changing landscape?
Note that the
ACDS is holding a forum on Work-Integrated Learning in Science on 11 December –
more information above!
6. Leadership Insights
Jillian Kinzie, Pat Hutchings, and
Natasha A. Jankowski, in the book, Using Evidence of Student
Learning to Improve Higher Education
Evidence of
student learning can be a powerful tool for driving institutional and national
change. The authors outlines the principles that focus assessment towards good
practice and change. How can you implement these principles in your assessment schedules?
How can you drive effective change in your institution through assessments that
contribute to overall student learning?
Jenny Rood for The Scientist: Exploring Life, Inspiring Innovation
Retiring
professors often take with them a wealth of institutional knowledge and experience
in their disciplines. ‘Post-retirement postdocs’ are an emerging phenomenon
that seek to keep these institutional leaders contributing to the wider research
body. How would you seek to retain this vast realm of knowledge within your
research discipline? What contributions do you think are best suited to these
leaders, whether it be mentoring, research, or other contributions?
7. Classifieds
The 2015 RiAus
Postgraduate Survival Guide comes at a time when the national conversation is
focused on the way in which we can train up the next generation of STEM-skilled
graduates to take on the transition to the digital economy and contribute to
Australia’s growing knowledge economy and industry.
The SMART
Directory indexes useful websites relevant to teaching and learning in science
and mathematics, with annotated resources and a rating system indicating the
usefulness of the resources. The Directory is ready for testing, and the
developers welcome feedback and comments on the site, which is available in beta
here.
For mathematics
educators with an interest in undergraduate mathematics education for secondary
school teachers, mathematicians, academics in other discipline areas and
teachers in maths support classes, state groups have been formed to consider
state based issues, facilitate more frequent contact and encourage new members
to participate in the FYiMaths network.
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