Teaching & Learning Seminar Series

Present your research in 60 seconds. University of Melbourne graduate research students are invited to participate in the University's 2018 Visualise Your Thesis competition.

A series of seminars and discussion panels will be presented throughout semester 2 to showcase exemplars of evidence-based practice in teaching, learning, and assessment. Speakers from a range of disciplines across the University will discuss the approaches they are taking to engage students in large class lectures, blended, and fully online learning environments.

International student integration is not only a university issue, but a community one. Thus, the next step for universities’ internationalization strategies requires expanding efforts to include engagement with the greater community and bringing a community-based approach to internationalization processes.

The 2018 competition starts with a training session in June and heats in July. Are you the next University of Melbourne, and perhaps international, 3MT® champion?

The ability to present your research ideas clearly and succinctly to a non-specialist audience is now an essential skill for an academic.

Publication in non-academic outlets (including newspapers, magazines, books and, of course, their digital counterparts) will allow you to reach huge audiences across the globe. But perfecting how you approach these publications and the style you use to you write for them is crucial for achieving success in the non-academic/commercial world.

Australia’s large number of law schools is a product of higher education policy change in the 1980s, but has it limited opportunities for growth?

Universities are no longer the bastions of privilege they once were. The once hallowed halls of learning have been replaced with global institutions all competing for a piece of the knowledge pie. So, what does this mean for the tertiary education sector?

Growing interest in university–industry collaboration (UIC) calls for a need to develop frameworks and compare overseas models to better understand how successful UIC occurs. This article provides a framework for analyzing UIC across three dimensions: environmental, technical, and managerial.

Emotions play a significant part in students’ learning experiences within complex educational environments. However, the impact of emotional experiences on effective learning is not straightforward.

When faced with too much information and not enough time, are students turning to the best online resources, and how are they using them?