Coming Activities

CSUED - 2008

CSU’s combined education conference "Educational Interactions and Curricula” will be held in Wagga Wagga at the Convention Centre 19-20 November 2008, with two pre conference workshops on 18th November.

The pre-conference workshops will be conducted by the Professional Experience Network and the Flexible Learning Institute. The conference is open to CSU academic staff, fieldwork administrative staff, fieldwork/clinical/professional experience educators and students. See details at:

http://www.csu.edu.au/division/landt/CSUED/csued.htm

ALTC SPONSOR AND PROGRAM

The conference is sponsored in part from funding given by the Australian Learning & Teaching Council (previously the Carrick Institute) to establish the CSU Sustainable Network Initiative. (This initiative aims to engage the CSU community in opportunities arising from the ALTC’s Grant and Fellowship programs). The conference will provide workshops for grant and potential grant holders and mentoring opportunities for staff interested in developing grant applications. Some funding has been set aside to bring to the conference colleagues from other universities for supported collaboration on grant development. Further information on application processes will be provided.

THEMES

The conference will have four themes:

Education for Practice
Blended Learning
Fieldwork Education
The CSU Degree Initiative

ABSTRACTS

For all documents see the Learning and Teaching Website.

RSVP to Linda Beverly (lbeverly@csu.edu.au) by 30 August 2008

Participants in the conference are welcome to submit abstracts relating to:

Pre-Conference Professional Experience Network Workshop 18 th November
30 minute papers or 45 minute workshops. Please send a 200 word abstract including details of content, type of presentation (paper or workshop) and workshop approach (if applicable).
Educational Interactions and Curricula conference 19 th – 20 th November
Conference parallel sessions – papers (15 minutes + 5 mins questions).Please send a 200 word abstract indicating theme 1,2, 3 or 4.
Conference mini posters (size A3 only – no large posters). Please send a 200 word abstract indicating theme 1,2,3,4.
Demonstrations of the use of online technologies for learning and teaching. Please submit a 100 word abstract + details of any system requirements

MEDICAL CHALLENGES SERIES - Conference in Antarctica

TREAT YOURSELF: THE MCKENZIE APPROACH TO MUSCULO-SKELETAL PAIN
11 days/10 nights
28 December 2008 – 7 January 2009
Departs and finishes Ushuaia, Argentina
Click here for more information.

Past Events

EFPI staff member – on tour in Antarctica

Antarctica

In February of this year Dr Jenny Pynt, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow of EFPI was a key speaker at “MEDICAL CHALLENGES SERIES, Conference in Antarctica”.

Abundant wildlife, ancient glaciers, vast icy plains and giant blue icebergs and learning about Musculo-skeletal pain, all in the one package. Click here to find out more.

PEN Conference November 2007

The EFP Institute is engaged in a number of projects to foster a scholarly approach to practice-based education. Some of these are being conducted in collaboration with other organisations that are in line with the aims and objectives of the EFP Institute, for example PEN (Professional Experience Network). PEN held its annual meeting 6-8 November 2007 in Goulburn. The EFP Institute gave awards for the best poster and best paper at this meeting. The winners were:

Best Poster: Shelley McMenamin, "Running out of Storage Space".
Best Paper: Brett Van Heekeren, "Work integrated learning: an inside out approach".
More details about PEN are available from: http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/pep/

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