6 RESULTS

Session 12 – Workshop: Online course design strategies to increase learning engagement: a meaningful hands-on course design exercise for educators – Acton Theatre, level 1

With increased demand to provide a greater access to content in higher education, universities have been focusing on developing their online learning courses and programs offered. Blended learning is well established in academia; however, the effectiveness of course design on student’s engagement remains uncertain. Instructors dedicated to teaching and learning are under pressure to explore …

Session 8: meriSTEM: Leveraging academic expertise to maximise secondary school science impact – Acton Theatre, level 1

meriSTEM is an ANU STEM education initiative providing comprehensive, curriculum-aligned, modular resources for senior secondary teachers, enabling them to ‘flip’ their classrooms in order to maximise deep, engaged learning. The purpose of meriSTEM is to increase student achievement, independent inquiry and critical thinking skills in STEM core subjects, while also increasing teacher capacity to facilitate …

Session 16: Moruya Mud Fun Play Build: How we used music and dance to fuel the construction of an architecturally engineered multipurpose structure and extract educational outcomes from the process – Acton Theatre, level 1

For the past several years SOL Illawarra Cultural Arts has been working on a vision to validate the power of music, dance, theatrics, cooperation and teamwork in terms of the real tangible results it can deliver. We decided that nothing could be more tangible than durable shelter. To this end, school teachers (general) music teachers, …