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DAY 1: MONDAY 26 AUGUST
9.00am – 10.00am: Session 1 – Opening plenary (St David Lecture Theatre)
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Mihimihi
Mark Brunton (Office of Māori Development)
Welcome
Jenny McDonald (HEDC)
Keynote
Teaching and research at Otago: The Place of Values
Gill Rutherford (UOCE)
10.00am – 11.00am: Session 2
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| Invited papers (#72, 69, 70)
Distance teaching ophthalmic basic sciences Towards the use of podcasts as an integrated teaching tool Developing a blended learning approach for teaching rheumatology across the three clinical medical schools at the University of Otago |
Papers (#64, 49, 32)
Approaches to examining publication-based PhDs Experiences from a PhD Viva team in New Zealand: Implications for practice and policy? Surviving the thesis journey |
Workshop (#13)
Why we do what we do in teaching |
11.00am – 11.30am: Morning tea (foyer)
11.30am – 12.30pm: Session 3
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| Invited papers (#73, 71, 68)
A blog-based research journal to accompany fourth-year student dissertations Student Wikipedia reports Google Adwords: A tool to bring the market place into the classrooms |
Papers (#22, 58, 43)
A longitudinal study of deep, surface and strategic approaches to learning Increasing Māori students’ success in the Health Sciences Individualized feedback on performance in multiplechoice question based assessments |
Workshop (#10)
Do we need to develop a scholarship of publication and if so what would it look like? |
12.30pm – 1.00pm: Session 4
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| Papers (#66, 39)
What can higher education learn from schools’ Tātaiako cultural competencies? A framework for reading dental student outplacement project data Co-managing the sustainability of University internship programmes |
Papers (#19, 36)
Why international students choose to study at the University of Otago Why and how to internationalise tort lawcurriculum content |
Papers (#54, 31)
Otago Locals – fostering a sense of belonging Using attachment to guide tertiary students teaching |
1.00pm – 2.00pm: Lunch (foyer)
2.00pm – 3.00pm: Session 5
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| Panel (#9)
MOOCs: revolution and/or hyperbole? An Otago perspective |
Papers (#50, 7, 16)
A framework for communicating undergraduate research and inquiry Publishing with students: Getting their voice out there Plagiarism: a crusade or a learning opportunity? How students understand plagiarism policy |
Workshop (#24)
Is that what you think? Exploring commonly held perceptions about student evaluations |
3.00pm – 4.30pm: Session 6 – Creative communications sessions (mezzanine)
(#74) Uni-ukes: A veritable community of practice
Leader: Jennifer Cattermole (Music)
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| Presentations (#42, 67)
Paint a picture of peace Growing post-graduates from the grassroots and upward! Poster boasters (#21, 25, 29, 38, 46, 56, 57) When more is less: An example of a blended learning approach to teaching research skills, including critical thinking about information sources, and how this approach delivers more content with less pressure on class scheduling and contact time Les Liaisons Dangereuses: The role of the embedded librarian Reaching the unreached: The role of ICT to support PhD students’ research process Enhancing self-efficacy for computer spreadsheet skills through teaching labs and self-help learning in first-year Biophysical Foundation students Professional supervision – an integral component of undergraduate medical education Adapting the peer review teaching process for ‘teaching on the run’ in clinical learning environments Developing an eLearning tool to teach professionalism – ‘learning from Chrissie’ |
Presentations (#15, 14)
“We’re singing in the dark?!?” A pre-European Māori method of teaching in a tertiary institution Don’t Fear The Reaper: Reconfiguration of teaching and musical technologies (and inevitable resultant apprehension) Poster boasters (#52, 53, 55, 65, 63, 23, 75) Fashionable, appealing, illusive, and still evolving: The notion of Threshold Concepts and their place in Computer Science education Experience using an online video annotation tool for reflective practice Undergraduate dental students’ perceptions of working with children – what did students view as the positive and negative aspects? Mobile resources for students: Anytime, anywhere access to course material A Teaching Culture Inventory to assess and enhance the departmental learning space Inform your practice: Practise your InForm Experiential education: A sales proposition with zero budget |
4.30pm – 6.00pm: Exploration of exhibits with wine and cheese (mezzanine)
DAY 2: TUESDAY 27 AUGUST
9.30am – 10.30am: Session 7
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| Panel (#48)
What do we do about unintentional plagiarism? |
Papers (#28, 34, 17)
Online discussions: Reflection for intercultural learning in medicine Developing Health Sciences students’ information skills through online self-paced learning What do staff and students in the Faculty of Medicine understand e-learning to be and what are the implications for its effective implementation? |
Workshop (#26)
What would you do? Discussing problematic teaching situations |
10.30am – 11.00am: Morning tea (foyer)
11.00am – 12.00pm: Session 8
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| Panel (#11)
Developing a research instrument to explore university-teachers’ perspectives on which aspects of academic integrity students learn as they experience supervised undergraduate-research |
Papers (#35, 18, 40)
Informal language learning practices on Facebook A web based distance learning course for Trainee Interns; how to blogger it up Social media as a teaching tool: Oral Health students’ blogging their way to becoming social media ‘savvy’ |
Workshop (#30)
Effective teaching strategies for a flipped classroom |
12.00pm – 1.00pm: Lunch (foyer)
1.00pm – 2.00pm: Session 9
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| Papers (#37, 60, 12)
Teaching clinical reasoning to undergraduate medical students: Introduction to patient handover Experiential science education Undergraduate numeracy in the Business School |
Papers (#33, 59, 5)
Why and how should lecturers engage with graduate outcomes? Critical pedagogy, higher education and a more equal society Re-thinking an educational concept: Rethinking addiction |
Workshop (#20)
Feed the Research Monster: Making RSS feeds work for you! |
2.00pm – 2.30pm: Session 10 – Closing plenary (St David Lecture Theatre)
Reflections on Spotlight 2013
Tony Harland (HEDC) and Spotlight Programme Committee