Date: Friday 2nd Nov 2018, 12.00pm-3.30pm
Location: Red Lab, W40, EBL Building, University of New England Armidale
Please RSVP to Dr Leopold Bayerlein leopold.bayerlein@une.edu.au

Seminar and Workshop

This session comprises a one hour seminar followed by a hands-on two hour applied workshop in which you will be able to experience first-hand the application of WikiRate in a teaching environment .
You are welcome to attend the Seminar without attending the workshop.
The seminar will introduce the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, and exemplars on how the goals are being embedded into higher education curriculum. Particular focus is given to an experiential learning activity utilising WikiRate, which gives students real-world experiences with sustainability disclosure and practices. The workshop will provide you with the opportunity to experience WikiRate in the classroom, and practical steps for implementing WikiRate into your units.

Speakers

Dr Belinda Gibbons is a Senior Lecturer within the Sydney Business School. She is the Australia/New Zealand Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) Coordinator and a member of the United Nations PRME Advisory Committee. She was recently a recipient of the 2016 Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning for her work titled ‘For pioneering the design, development, and implementation of an interdisciplinary experiential learning environment as a means of embedding responsible decision-making in business higher education’. Her experiential learning computer simulation received the NSW Innovation iAwards in 2014. Belinda has a unique blend of teaching and learning, governance and research expertise in the field of responsible management education and experiential learning with contribution evidenced at institutional, national and international levels.

Dr Bonnie Amelia Dean is an Academic Developer at the University of Wollongong and has expertise in Higher Education teaching, learning and research. In this role, Bonnie partners with academics to enhance teaching and learning capacities and scholarship of teaching and learning practices. Bonnie has published in the areas of teaching in higher education, work-integrated learning, reflective assessment, casual teaching, doctoral studies and academic development. Her research interests lay in the areas of experiential and work-integrated learning as well as the scholarship of teaching learning. Bonnie is editor of the International Journal of Doctoral Studies and reviewer of several international Higher Education research journals. Bonnie is the previous recipient of the Australian College of Educators award and is Senior Fellow with the Higher Education Academy.

Dr Stephanie Perkiss is Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong, Australia and is a Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA). Her main research interests are corporate responsibility and disclosure, counter-/alternative accounts, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, sociological theory and social and environmental accounting and accountability, with focus on the Sustainable Development Goals, climate change, disaster and displacement. She is the International Associate for the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research, as well as being a member of many other research and teaching associations.