Teaching and Learning Conference
6-7 June 2023
The biennial University of Melbourne Teaching and Learning Conference seeks to bring together academic and professional staff involved in teaching and learning from across the University to share scholarly approaches that contribute to a unique Melbourne experience.
In 2023 the conference will focus on evidence-based approaches for Transforming Teaching, Learning and Assessment.
The two-day event will exhibit a blend of panel discussions and presentations on innovative teaching and learning practices.
The conference will take place over two days, Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th June 2023.
Tuesday 6 June
8:30 – 9am | Registration - Ground Floor Atrium | |||||
9:00-9:20am | Welcome and Setting the Scene Professor Gregor Kennedy, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) | |||||
9:20 – 10:05am | Keynote: Assessment innovations – what does it take to make transformative change? Professor Anna Ryan, Head of Department & Director of Assessment, Department of Medical Education | Melbourne Medical School | |||||
10:05-10:25am | Response to keynote and Q&A Professor Jamie Evans, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Students and Education) | |||||
10:25-10:55am | Morning Tea - Ground Floor Atrium | |||||
Concurrent Sessions | ||||||
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Time | Room 1 Room 253 | Room 2 Room 256 | Room 3 Room 356 | Room 4 Room 456 | Room 5 Forum Theatre | |
10:55-11:25am | Generative AI is here to stay, so how do we assess learning? Dr Sarah Yang- Spencer, Dr Valerie Cotronei-Baird, Dr Justin Park and Dr Andy Wear (Faculty of Business and Economics) | Building a partnered learning community through teaching and learning with students Dr Ha Nguyen & Devyani Vadke, Fan Li, Hoi Cheng Cheung & Yueqi Annie Dai (Students as Partners) | Digital transformation: How designing an online subject has enhanced the quality of teaching and learning for students for whom English is an additional language Ms Amy Hume & Mr Mark Wong (Faculty of Fine Arts and Music) | A Community of Practice approach to empower teaching staff to develop their small group facilitation skills Dr Kylie Fitzgerald & Associate Professor Lisa Cheshire (MDHS) | From strength to strength - cross university collaborations to provide a strong portfolio in health education Associate Professor Femke Buisman-Pijlman (MDHS), Rachel Enders (MDHS) & Alana Horton (MSPACE) | |
11:30-12:00 | Creating a Masterclass: cultivating genuine interaction and collaborative learning in large undergraduate lecture sessions Associate Professor Michelle Rank & Dr Yossi Rathner (MDHS) | Community beyond campus: A framework for engagement. Kintara Phillips & Dr Amanda Samson (MGSE) | Implementing a networked support approach to enable sustained curriculum innovation Dr Elisa Bone (MGSE) & James Thompson (Architecture, Building and Planning) | Interactive learning in large lectures Paul Wiseman & Professor Michael Davern (Faculty of Business and Economics) | Transformative teaching and learning with Museums and Collections Dr Ethel Villafrance, Dr Kyla McFarlane & Dr Heather Gaunt (Chancellery) | |
12:05-12:35pm | Enhancing student experience with career education Mr Murray Dixon (COO Portfolio), Dr Allison Creed (Arts) & Dr Michael ‘Maxx’ Schmitz | Creative Community Connections: Building arts and cultural employability skills through social learning Dr Kim Goodwin (Arts) | First years outdoors, with help from a Field Friend Dr Lisa Godinho (Science), Dr Rebecca Hull (Science), Ms Eirene Carajias (Science), & Gordon Yau (Learning Environments) | Tutor and demonstrator professional development - Lessons from across the university Ashlee Pearson, Valerie Cotronei-Baird, Gab Corbo-Perkin, Christopher Duffy | Virtual reality performance simulation to enhance tertiary music training. Dr Margaret Osborne & Dr Solange Glasser (Faculty of Fine Arts and Music) & Ben Loveridge (Learning Environments) | |
12:40-1:05pm | The role of near peer-led simulation in Physiotherapy education: a mixed methods study Associate Professor Catherine Granger (MDHS) | Employability skills: closing the gap between academia and industry through personalized student journey maps Dr Eduardo Oliveira (Engineering & IT) | The mental health of international university students from China during the COVID-19 pandemic and the protective effect of social support: A longitudinal study Ms Tianhui Ke (MDHS) | Innovative approaches to designing and delivering online activities for practical subjects Mr Nathan Grieve (Faculty of Fine Arts and Music) | Media as Dialogue: Designing media that empowers academics to inspire students Pru Burns, Jen Farrow, and Auyrn Ona (COO Portfolio)
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1:10-2:05pm | Lunch | |||||
2:05-3.35pm | What does AI offer to teaching and learning in our University? Chair: Professor Sally Male, Director, Teaching and Learning Lab (TLL), Faculty of Engineering and IT Professor Eduard Hovy, Melbourne ConnectAssociate Professor Thomas Cochrane, Melbourne Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Kate Coleman, Melbourne Graduate School of Education | |||||
3:35-3:50pm | Summary and Closing Remarks Professor Jamie Evans, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Students and Education) | |||||
3:50-5:00pm | Networking Event (Drinks and Canapés 4pm-5pm – RSVP Essential) Ground Floor Atrium | |||||
Wednesday 7 June
8:30 – 9am | Registration - Ground Floor Atrium | |||||
9:15 – 9:30am | Welcome and Setting the Scene Professor Sophie Arkoudis, Director, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education | |||||
09:30-10:15am | Keynote: Supporting all students to thrive: How can we ensure inclusivity? Professor Julie Willis, Dean, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning | |||||
10:15-10:35am | Response to keynote and Q&A Professor Sophie Arkoudis, Director, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education | |||||
| Concurrent Sessions | ||||||
Room 1 Room 253 | Room 2 Room 256 | Room 3 Room 356 | Room 4 Room 456 | Room 5 Forum Theatre | ||
10:40-11:10am | Authentic Learning Designs for ENVS10001 Natural Environments through FlexAP Dr Alexis Pang & Beau Picking (Faculty of Science) | Supporting the transition of international students into the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine: a student co-creation project Dr Laura Dooley (Faculty of Science) | Exploring collaborative co-learning models between consumers and health professionals Dr Sathana Dushyanthen & Dr Kara Burns (MDHS) | Supporting our Teaching Specialists for their Career Progression Dr Sarah Yang- Spencer, Associate Professor Antonette Mendoza, Dr Samantha Byrne, Dr Amy Hahs, Associate Professor Georgina Such & Associate Professor Wonsun Shin | Partnering in Design: FlexAP Online, Blended and Alternative Mode Delivery Ms Annabel Orchard & Ms Catherine Manning (COO Portfolio) | |
11:10-11:45am | Morning tea Ground Floor Atrium | |||||
| Panel and Closing Sessions: Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre (B101) | ||||||
11:45-1:15pm | Provocation Panel: How can we raise the value and improve the quality of teaching within the University? Chair: Professor Elizabeth Molloy, Associate Dean (Learning And Teaching), Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Professor Raoul Mulder, Melbourne Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Antonette Mendoza, Education Specialist, Computing and information Technology Rachel Lim, Mentor Leader & Doctor of Medicine student, Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences | |||||
1:15-1:30pm | Summary and Closing Remarks | |||||
1:30-2:30pm | Lunch - Ground Floor Atrium | |||||
Keynote Speaker - Tuesday 6 June
Professor Anna Ryan
Head of Department & Director of Assessment
Department of Medical Education| Melbourne Medical School
Assessment innovations – what does it take to make transformative change?
Our Advancing Students & Education Strategy highlighting the role of continuous, authentic and digital assessment practices to support student learning. This emphasis is consistent with more global evolutions in assessment practices - from compartmentalised and measurement based approaches towards more authentic and programmatic designs. Yet this transition from traditional to programmatic assessment is not necessarily an easy one. This presentation will provide a detailed case report of one such transition spanning a ten years, and with further changes in train. The role of the existing evidence base, a shared purpose, frequent scholarly outputs and the right digital resources will all be highlighted as essential enablers of such transformative change.
Professor Anna Ryan is Head of Department (Interim) and Director of Assessment in the Department of Medical Education at the University of Melbourne. Anna is a medical doctor and a chiropractor and has a number of educational qualifications including a PhD in Medical Education. Her work extends across graduate entry medical education, post graduate clinical education, research supervision, accreditation and regulation contexts. Anna’s overarching research interest is in the use of assessments to guide learning, while still supporting the traditional role assessments play in certifying competence and ensuring patient safety. She is an associate editor of the journal Advances in Health Sciences Education and a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professional Educators.
Keynote Speaker - Wednesday 7 June
Professor Julie Willis
Dean, Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning
Supporting all students to thrive: How can we ensure inclusivity?
At the University of Melbourne, we aim to educated talented students and help them thrive in their chosen areas of study. But for students who face barriers to joining us and completing their studies, such as those living with a disability or significant ill-health, the University of Melbourne can be a difficult place to navigate, where the onus is too often on the student themselves to overcome such hurdles. Too often the answers are ‘we can’t’ or ‘its too difficult’ or, even worse, ‘it wouldn’t be fair to others to accommodate you’. Instead, we need to focus on how we can enable all students to thrive at the University.
Julie Willis is a Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Fully trained as an architect, she is an expert architectural historian alongside researching gender equity in the profession and contemporary healthcare design. She has been the chair of the University’s Diversity & Inclusion Committee since 2018.
Panel: What does AI offer to teaching and learning in our University?
Tuesday 6 June
In late 2022 OpenAI launched the large language model ChatGPT. ChatGPT is an example of generative artificial intelligence that is capable of synthesising fluent largely-convincing text, including computer code, in response to written prompts. Importantly, the responses generated by ChatGPT are not skimmed from the internet or other sources and are completely new and unique. Additionally, ChatGPT is an example of non-explainable AI and it's output is not repeatable; given the exact same prompt, it can generate two completely different outputs. The capability of generative AI also ranges to art, music and many other types of media.
Since the launch of ChaptGPT there has been a tsunami of interest in the power of artificial intelligence and especially concern about what it means for managing academic integrity. In this session, a panel of our University’s academics with immense experience and insight will provoke us to step back and see AI in the wider historical and technological context, ask ourselves what it really is and is not, and consider the medium and especially the long term opportunities and challenges. We will start with a wide view, delve deeply into the implications for a specific discipline, and then step back to general practical questions and implications.
How can we raise the value and improve the quality of teaching within the University?
Wednesday 7June
A central goal of the university’s Advancing Students and Education (ASE) strategy is to elevate the value we place on the education of our students so that it is equal to the value we place on research. In this Provocation Panel, participants will offer institutional, teacher and student perspectives on what changes to our systems, practices and processes will be needed in order to achieve this ambitious outcome.
With sessions featuring (in alphabetical order):
Prof Sophie Arkoudis
Sophie Arkoudis is Professor in Higher Education and Director of the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education. Professor Arkoudis is a national and international researcher in higher education.
A/Prof Thomas Cochrane
Associate Professor Thomas Cochrane is a Professor in Technology Enhanced Learning in Higher Education, at the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education. Professor Cochrane has expertise in qualitative research in technology-enhanced learning, with a focus upon action research, and design based research methodologies.
A/Prof Kate Coleman
Associate Professor Kate Coleman (she/her) is co-lead of SWISP Lab with Dr Sarah Healy. Her research and teaching is positioned in the intersection of art, design, digital, practice, culture and data. Kate is a neurodivergent, feminist, artist, researcher and teacher.
Prof Jamie Evans
Jamie Evans is the Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) at the University of Melbourne and Professor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. In his PVC role Jamie leads whole-of-University approaches to education programs and development in key areas of the Academic and Student Life portfolios. This includes leading the advancement of Discovery Subjects, Capstone Subjects, Breadth Subjects, Work-Integrated Learning programs, and Co-Curricular opportunities for students. His role also supports the professional development of academic staff and recognition of staff through awards and grants.
Prof Eduard Hovy
Eduard Hovy is the Executive Director of Melbourne Connect. Born in South Africa, Professor Hovy completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) at Yale University in 1987 and was awarded honorary doctorates from the National Distance Education University (UNED) in Madrid in 2013 and the University of Antwerp in 2015.
Prof Gregor Kennedy
Professor Kennedy has led a number of research and development groups, Units and Centres, in the areas of higher education, educational technology, and the learning sciences. He is currently a Professor of Higher Education in the Centre for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE) and was Director of the CSHE for a number of years.
Rachel Lim
Rachel Lim is a second year Doctor of Medicine student and a Mentor Leader with the Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Faculty. As both a staff member and student at the University of Melbourne, Rachel is able to share her experiences in facilitating student life enrichment and learning, as well as actively participating in it.
Prof Sally Male
As Director of the Teaching and Learning Laboratory in the Faculty of Engineering and IT at the University of Melbourne, Professor Sally Male leads a program of research in engineering and computing education, and higher education, and a program of development and support for engineering and IT educators. Her mission in her research and teaching, is to ensure that students have the best possible opportunities to develop capabilities and attributes to lead successful lives contributing to society.
A/Prof Antonette Mendoza
Antonette Mendoza is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. She has received a citation for 'Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning' in the 2017 Australian Awards for University Teaching, a national-level recognition for her work.
Prof Elizabeth Molloy
Associate Dean, Learning and Teaching, in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. She is also Professor of Work Integrated Learning in the Department of Medical Education, Melbourne Medical School, at the University of Melbourne.
Prof Raoul Mulder
Professor Raoul Mulder holds dual appointments as Professor of Evolutionary Ecology in the School of BioSciences (Faculty of Science) and Professor of Higher Education (Centre for the Study of Higher Education, Melbourne Graduate School of Education). He has published extensively on the evolution of mating systems, social behaviour and communication in a wide range of birds, both in Australia and other parts of the world, and on evidence-based approaches to university teaching.
Dr Tracii Ryan
Dr Tracii Ryan is a Lecturer at the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education (Melbourne CSHE) at The University of Melbourne. Her research expertise bridges the disciplines of education and psychology, and she has a strong background in quantitative and mixed methods research design and analysis.