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1G - Teaching, learning and the student experience

Tracks
Track 7
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
10:30 AM - 12:25 PM
Plaza P10

Speaker

Assoc Prof Linda Corrin
Associate Director, Learning Innovation (business & Law)
Deakin University

10:30am - 10:55am Professional learning needs for everyday learning analytics

10:30 AM - 10:55 AM

Biography

Associate Professor Linda Corrin is the Associate Director, Learning Innovation (Business and Law) at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Linda has over 20 years’ experience working in higher education and has taught in the fields of education, business, and IT. Her research focuses on how learning analytics can be used to provide meaningful and timely feedback to teachers and students, as well as the ethical aspects of learning analytics implementation and use. She is the coordinator of the Victorian/Tasmanian Learning Analytics Network and a co-coordinator of the ASCILITE Learning Analytics Special Interest Group. She has won several awards for her learning analytics research and co-edited the book “Learning Analytics in the Classroom: Translating learning analytics research for teachers” in 2019. Linda is also a lead editor of the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology.
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Dr Yurgos Politis
Lecturer
Central European University, Vienna

11:00am - 11:25am Team-teaching tips and good practices in a higher education context: Professional development of early career researchers

11:00 AM - 11:25 AM

Biography

Dr Yurgos Politis holds a BSc in Physics, with included Initial Teacher Education in year 4. His PhD is in the field of Physics Education, and he has an MA in Education. His research interests since then have been diversified and cover areas such as inclusive education, adult education, lifelong learning and higher education. He was involved with a few international, inter-disciplinary and collaborative research projects, namely, EUROAC, UNIBILITY, COMMIT, ERSALE and Inclusive Learning. More recently, he held a Marie Curie Fellowship, which entailed a 2-year visiting scholar period at Michigan State University. That project explored the use of Virtual Reality for conversation skills training, initially with young autistic adults. His recent teaching and research has had a focus on the scholarship of Teaching and Learning, with publications on the use of role-playing in the professional development of novice academics and team-teaching best practices in a Higher Education context. For more info please check here: https://people.ceu.edu/yurgos-georgios_politis https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7151-3741 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Yurgos-Politis
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Dr Irene (Johanna Catharina) Lubbe
Senior Lecturer & Researcher
Central European University, Vienna

Co-presenter

Biography

Dr Irene Lubbe, an Educationalist, researcher, workshop facilitator and conference presenter with a passion for alternative teaching, facilitation, and assessment. She holds a PhD and M.Edu in Higher Education studies and has worked as a senior lecturer in South Africa and Europe. Believing that learning should be engaging, fun and authentic for the student, she guides PhD-students and faculty members in exploring exciting and alternative ways to facilitate learning amongst their students and to create alternative methods for students to showcase application and mastery of newly acquired knowledge and skills. She further combines her passion for alternative teaching and assessment with the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL), which she focuses her research projects on aiming to involve faculty members in SoTL-activities and collaborate across departments, institutions, and continents. She often participates in conferences as a presenter or workshop-facilitator. For more information visit https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0683-7234 or her institutional profile at https://people.ceu.edu/irene_lubbe
Dr Kathleen Mahon
The University of Queensland

11:30am - 11:55am Pedagogical practice and professionalism in higher education – A cross-national study

11:30 AM - 11:55 AM

Biography

Kathleen is a Senior Lecturer (Higher Education) in the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation, University of Queensland, and also an Associate Professor in Pedagogical Work in the Department of Educational Work at the University of Borås, Sweden. Her research areas are educational praxis, higher education pedagogy, teacher professional learning, and outdoor education. Kathleen is co-editor of the Springer books Exploring education and professional practice: Through the lens of practice architectures (2017) and Pedagogy, education and praxis in critical times (2020). She is also a Senior Editor of the Journal of Praxis in Higher Education. Kathleen has a professional background as a secondary school and outdoor education teacher in Australia.
Dr Susanne Francisco
Senior lecturer
Charles Sturt University

Co-presenter

Biography


Chair

Yoko Mori
Doctoral Candidate
University of Otago

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