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Thursday 21 February
(click on a paper's title to read the abstract)
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8.00 – 9.00
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Registration (Visitor’s Centre)
The conference will take place in the Senate Room
– delegates will be directed from the Visitor’s Centre.
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9.00 – 9.15
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Conference opening and welcome
Professor Sir Kenneth Calman, Chancellor of
the University
of Glasgow
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9.15 – 10.00
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KEYNOTE 1: Dr Diana G. Oblinger
Technology and the Global Commons
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10.00 – 10.45
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KEYNOTE 2: Dr Marcia Devlin
An
International and Interdisciplinary Approach to Curriculum:
The Melbourne Model
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10.45 – 11.15
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Coffee
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11.15 – 12.15
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Conference papers
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Internationalisation at the University of
Nottingham: the Challenges and Opportunities of a Multinational University
Professor Christine Ennew & Dr Wyn Morgan, University of Nottingham
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Globalisation: joint programmes as a
strategy for the future
Dr Eva Åkesson & Associate Professor Malin Irhammar, Lund University
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Assisting international
students to manage their transition to UK academic culture
Dr Gayle Pringle, Dr Moira Fischbacher & Ms Anneli Williams, University of Glasgow
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12.30 – 13.30
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Lunch
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13.40 – 14.40
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Conference papers
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Making time and space for role
adjustment: supporting international students in transition
Ms Anneli Williams & Dr Esther Daborn, University
of Glasgow
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Student evaluation of modules for
improving teaching-learning effectiveness
Ms Poay Hoon Lim, Dr Suyin Gan & Professor
Michael Cloke, University of Nottingham Malaysia
Campus & Michael Ian Hartly, DownUnder Geosolutions,
Australia.
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Translating teaching
and learning across disciplines in a modular system
Dr Eilis Hennessy, Ms Rosario Hernández,
Dr Patricia Kieran & Henry McLoughlin,
University College Dublin
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14:40 – 14:50
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Break
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14.50 – 15.30
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Conference papers
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Student engagement in mathematics at the
University of Virginia
Associate Professor Irina Mitrea, University of Virginia
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Utilising first term experience in a blended
programme for improving student engagement: a case study
Assistant Professor Kanishka Bedi,
U21 Global
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15.30 – 16.00
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Coffee
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16.00 – 17:30
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Group sessions (two in parallel; feedback at the end)
a) Developing the campus as a place for
learning
b) Enquiry-based learning
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19.30
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CONFERENCE DINNER, University
of Glasgow
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Friday 22 February
(click on a paper's title to read the abstract)
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9.00 – 9.45
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KEYNOTE 3: Professor Kerri-Lee Krause
Transitions
and translations: Making connections in the first year
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9.45 – 10.30
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KEYNOTE 4: Professor Ron Piper
Challenge
or support? Approaches to the first year and the Scottish experience
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10.30 – 11.00
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Coffee
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11.00 – 12.20
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Conference papers
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The first year experience: perceptions
of feedback
Associate Professor Carol Johnston & Professor Nilss
Olekalns, University of Melbourne
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Making it different: a blended learning
pilot project with first year geography undergraduates
Dr Mary Gilmartin & Dr Niamh
Moore, University College Dublin
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"Won't someone tell me
all I need to know?": first year expectations of university life
Dr Amanda Gibney, Dr Niamh
Moore, Mr Feargal Murphy & Dr Sara
O’Sullivan, University College Dublin
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Three of the best: exemplars of enhancing student
engagement in the first year
Dr Simon Bates, University
of Edinburgh
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12.30 – 13.30
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Lunch
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13.40 – 15.00
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Conference papers
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Shaping up the research agenda on student
engagement
Professor Lorraine Stefani, University
of Auckland
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What's distinctive about first-year
undergraduate courses as teaching-learning environments? Some
empirical findings
Professor Dai Hounsell, University
of Edinburgh
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Quality culture in research intensive
institutions - university teaching improved
Torgny Roxå &
Katarina Mårtensson, Lund University
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Teaching as academic housework: exploring the
nature of perceived inequities between teaching and research
Professor Bairbre Redmond, University College
Dublin
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15.00 – 15.30
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Coffee
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15.30 – 16.00
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Feedback on progress, challenges, actions to take forward
Formal conference close
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16.00
– 17.00
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Network meetings of VPs / PVCs
(L&T) / Other networks
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Please note the
programme may be subject to change if circumstances dictate.
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Running alongside the
conference proceedings will be a display of posters on a number of themes
related to the conference.
Click
here to download the programme in pdf format
Registration
Registration is on-line. The closing date for registration was Friday 30
November 2007. If you have not yet registered, but are still
interested in attending, please contact Clare
Noakes in the U21 Secretariat as soon as
possible.
Conference
fee
The conference
fee of US$180 will cover all conference meals (lunch and dinner on 21
February and lunch on 22 February), conference papers and venue hire.
Payment of conference
fees will be by invoice, which will be sent out after registration has
closed. Places will not be confirmed until payment is made.
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