On Thursday 28th July, UNE will be hosting its third Learning and Teaching Symposium.
“As with UNE’s previous symposiums, this is an opportunity for the UNE community to come together and share innovative learning and teaching practices,” said Executive Principal Education Futures, Professor Steven Warburton.
Rather than a theme, this year’s Learning and Teaching Symposium will be built around the key question: Engagement – One problem but with many solutions? Engagement can be challenging. At this year’s Learning and Teaching Symposium this question will be considered through a range of presentations exploring the different ways we can engage with our students, with each other, with the broader community, and with big ideas.
The symposium will begin with the keynote address ‘Cheating as disengagement: what can we do?’ by Professor Phill Dawson, Associate Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) at Deakin University. Professor Dawson has degrees in education, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity, and leads CRADLE’s work on cheating, academic integrity, and assessment security. According to Professor Dawson, “student engagement and academic integrity are inseparable…. Cheating is the ultimate disengagement”.
Associate Professor Mitch Parkes, a member of the Learning and Teaching Symposium Planning Committee, welcomes Professor Dawson as “a lively and engaging speaker. We are excited to have him as this year’s keynote”.
The keynote will be followed by 12 presentations from colleagues across the UNE community that will explore engagement in its various guises, ranging from existentialist approaches to narrative and storytelling; from mini case studies to tragedies and comedies of the commons; and everything in between.
Further information about this year’s Learning and Teaching Symposium and the symposium programme can be found on the symposium website:
https://symposium.une.edu.au/symposium-2022/
All UNE staff are welcome and are invited to register their attendance through this website. Attendance is free, and staff can attend all or any number of the presentations they wish.