2011 Calendar - Learning and Teaching Professional Development Program  

 

Unscheduled activities

This is a comprehensive calendar of LTS-supported professional development activities for academic staff in learning and teaching. Activities will be offered in a variety of formats including during regular videoconferences. To view all aspects of the program refer to the professional development menu or use the links in this calendar.

Session, Week Week commencing PD for all staff PD for targeted groups:
(Course Directors Forum / Leaders; Course teams; EFPI & FLI fellows; Casual teaching staff)		 Self-paced professional development
S1, W10 2 May  

 

 3 May (12.00-2.00)
Course Directors Forum videoconference		  
S1, W11 9 May        
S1, W12 16 May        
S1, W13 23 May   25 May (1.30-3.00)
ICT CoP Forum: Supporting workplace learners and supervisors with ICT		    
S1, W14 30 May Friday 3 June - Session 1 ends      
  6 June 6 June - examinations commence   EEL409 Session 1
6 June: Wagga Intensive 2
8 June: Bathurst Intensive 2		  
  13 June 13 June - Queen's Birthday
(Public Holiday - University Closed)
17  June - examinations end		      
  20 June   22 June (1.30-3.00)
ICT CoP Forum: Supporting and being responsive to large cohorts through ICT		    
  27 June     EEL409 Session 2
27 June: Wagga Intensive 1
29 June: Bathurst Intensive 1		  
  4 July     4 July (1.30-3.30)
Course Directors Forum videoconference 6-7 July FULT Session 2 (Wagga)		  
S2, W1 11 July Session 2 commences      
S2, W2 18 July  

21 July (11.55 for 12.00-1.00)
CSU Degree Book Club: The First Year Experience

21 July (2.00-3.30)
Professional practice seminar: Working with racism in the classroom

    
S2, W3 25 July        
S2, W4 1 August  

4 August (afternoon)
EFPI Campus-based seminar
Problem based learning – obstacles & challenges
Stephen Loftus
Goulburn
Register via Web Kiosk / View available courses / LT Goulburn

5 August (morning)
EFPI Campus-based seminar
Practice-based education & workplace learning in Theology
Stephen Loftus
St. Mark's, Canberra
Register via Web Kiosk / View available courses / LT Canberra

 2-3 August (Lunch to lunch)
Course Directors Forum face to face assembly, Galong via Young		  
S2, W5 8 August        
S2, W6 15 August   18 August (11.55 for 12.00 - 1.00) 
CSU Degree Book Club: Blended and Flexible Learning		    
S2, W7 22 August 22 August - residential school period begins      
S2, W8 29 August 2 September - residential school period ends

1 September (morning)
EFPI Campus-based seminar
Practice-based education as a quality agent
Edwina Adams
Orange Campus
Register via Web Kiosk / View available courses / LT Orange

1 September (afternoon)
EFPI Campus-based seminar
Workplace learning network policies and procedures
Wendy Bowles
Orange Campus
Register via Web Kiosk / View available courses / LT Orange

    
S2, W9 5 September     9 September (9.30-11.30)
Course Directors Forum videoconference		  
S2, W10 12 September   15 September (11.55 for 12.00-1.00)
CSU Degree Book Club: Professional and practice-based education		    
S2, W11 19 September   21 September (1.30-3.00)
ICT CoP Forum: Using ICTs in academic research and the scholarship of teaching 		   
S2, W12 26 September        
S2, W13 3 October 3 October - Labour Day
(Public Holiday - University Closed)		      
S2, W14 10 October 14 October - Session 2 ends 12 October (1.30-3.00)
ICT CoP Forum: Online synchronous teaching		    
  17 October 17 October - examinations commence   EEL409 Session 2
17 October: Wagga Intensive 2
19 October: Bathurst Intensive 2		  
  24 October   28 October - examinations end      
  31 October        
  7 November  

9 November (12.00 - 1.00)
CSU Degree Book Club: Ethics and global citizenship 

9 November (9.00-11.00)
Course Directors Forum videoconference 		 
S3, W1 14 November Session 3 commences 15-17 November
CSU Ed Conference
Pre-conference workshops		    
S3, W2 21 November        
S3, W4 28 November        
S3, W5 5 December        
S3, W6 12 December        
S3, W7 19 December        
  26 December 26 December (1/2 Day) – 2 January
(University closed for Christmas break)   		      



Yet to be scheduled and unscheduled activities
      All staff Targeted groups
(inc. Course directors / leaders; course teams; EFPI & FLI fellows; Casual teaching staff)		 Self-paced professional development
    School-based workshops on request

CSU Common Teaching Standards

  1. Providing  timely and useful assessment feedback 
  2. Good practice in designing online assessment
  3. Minimising plagiarism
  4. Getting started with course analysis and the CSU Degree
  5. Good practice in using Online Meeting
 
  1. CQI Portal
  2. Yammer
  3. Web-based, self-paced resources for casual teaching staff
    Ongoing

Educational technology affordances

  1. CSU’s educational technologies: Affordances and best practice
  2. PLE: New Version of ePortfolio (PebblePad)
  3. CSU Replay (VOD/POD casting / lecture capture system
  4. DOMS
  5. Transition to Interact2
  6. Test Centre

General

  1. Teaching dynamics
  2. CSU Degree good practice guidelines [Bookclub]
  3. Monitoring course team processes in preparation for the 2011 Course Report
  4. Supporting student success
  5. Professional practice seminar: Indigenous cultural competence in the classroom
  6. CSUDI think tank: Internationalising the curriculum
  7. CSUDI think tank: Ethics in the workplace
  8. Celebrating achievement – ALTC citations and awards
  9. Researching learning and teaching in higher education
  1. Mobile learning pilots
 

 

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Last updated 14 September 2011