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U21 Teaching & Learning Conference
Does Teaching & Learning Translate?
Programme
 

 

Thursday 21 February
(click on a paper's title to read the abstract)

8.00 – 9.00

Registration (Visitor’s Centre)

The conference will take place in the Senate Room – delegates will be directed from the Visitor’s Centre.

9.00 – 9.15

Conference opening and welcome
Professor Sir Kenneth Calman, Chancellor of the University of Glasgow

9.15 – 10.00

KEYNOTE  1: Dr Diana G. Oblinger
Technology and the Global Commons

10.00 – 10.45

KEYNOTE 2: Dr Marcia Devlin
An International and Interdisciplinary Approach to Curriculum:
The Melbourne Model

10.45 – 11.15

Coffee

11.15 – 12.15

Conference papers

 

Internationalisation at the University of Nottingham: the Challenges and Opportunities of a Multinational University
Professor Christine Ennew & Dr Wyn Morgan, University of Nottingham

 

Globalisation: joint programmes as a strategy for the future
Dr Eva Åkesson & Associate Professor Malin Irhammar, Lund University

 

Assisting international students to manage their transition to UK academic culture
Dr Gayle Pringle, Dr Moira Fischbacher & Ms Anneli Williams, University of Glasgow

12.30 – 13.30

Lunch

13.40 – 14.40

Conference papers

 

Making time and space for role adjustment: supporting international students in transition
Ms Anneli Williams & Dr Esther Daborn, University of Glasgow

 

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.

 

Translating teaching and learning across disciplines in a modular system
Dr Eilis Hennessy, Ms Rosario Hernández, Dr Patricia Kieran & Henry McLoughlin, University College Dublin

14:40 – 14:50

Break

14.50 – 15.30

Conference papers

 

Student engagement in mathematics at the University of Virginia
Associate Professor Irina Mitrea, University of Virginia

 

Utilising first term experience in a blended programme for improving student engagement: a case study
Assistant Professor Kanishka Bedi, U21 Global

15.30 – 16.00

Coffee

16.00 – 17:30

Group sessions (two in parallel; feedback at the end)
a)
Developing the campus as a place for learning
b) Enquiry-based learning

19.30

CONFERENCE DINNER, University of Glasgow

 

Friday 22 February
(click on a paper's title to read the abstract)

9.00 – 9.45

KEYNOTE 3: Professor Kerri-Lee Krause
Transitions and translations: Making connections in the first year

9.45 – 10.30 

KEYNOTE 4: Professor Ron Piper
Challenge or support? Approaches to the first year and the Scottish experience

10.30 – 11.00 

Coffee

11.00 – 12.20 

Conference papers

 

The first year experience: perceptions of feedback
Associate Professor Carol Johnston & Professor Nilss Olekalns, University of Melbourne

 

Making it different: a blended learning pilot project with first year geography undergraduates
Dr Mary Gilmartin & Dr Niamh Moore, University College Dublin

 

"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

 

Three of the best: exemplars of enhancing student engagement in the first year
Dr Simon Bates, University of Edinburgh

12.30 – 13.30 

Lunch

13.40 – 15.00

Conference papers

 

Shaping up the research agenda on student engagement
Professor Lorraine Stefani, University of Auckland

 

What's distinctive about first-year undergraduate courses as teaching-learning environments?  Some empirical findings
Professor Dai Hounsell, University of Edinburgh

 

Quality culture in research intensive institutions - university teaching improved
Torgny Roxå & Katarina Mårtensson, Lund University

 

Teaching as academic housework: exploring the nature of perceived inequities between teaching and research
Professor Bairbre Redmond, University College Dublin

15.00 – 15.30

Coffee

15.30 – 16.00

Feedback on progress, challenges, actions to take forward
Formal conference close

16.00 – 17.00

Network meetings of VPs / PVCs (L&T) / Other networks

 


Please note the programme may be subject to change if circumstances dictate.

Running alongside the conference proceedings will be a display of posters on a number of themes related to the conference.

Open source tool development case study - the VET
Mr John Alexander, University of Virginia

Bridging scientific and cultural differences by modelling
Göran Ewald & Patrik Wallman, Lund University

Designing a range of enquiry-based learning approaches to support student engagement across a variety of disciplinary contexts
Geraldine O'Neill, University College Dublin

Developing and modifying a PBL curriculum for Hong Kong speech language therapy undergraduates
Professor Tara L. Whitehill, University of Hong Kong

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.