3G - Teaching, learning & student experience
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Wednesday, July 9, 2025 |
10:30 AM - 12:25 PM |
Meeting Room 8 - Level 2 |
Overview
Meeting Room 8 - Level 2
Speaker
Dr Misty So-Sum Wai-Cook
Deputy Director, Centre for English Language Communication
National University Of Singapore
The effects of Students’ Perceptions of the Uptake of Information, Emotion and Social Interaction on Feedback Literacy
Biography
Dr Misty So-Sum Wai-COOK is Deputy Director & Senior Lecturer at the Centre for English Language Communication and Director of Student Life at the College of Alice & Peter Tan (CAPT). She is also the Chair of the NUS Teaching Academy. Misty has won multiple Centre and NUS teaching excellence awards, and she is now on Annual Teaching Excellence Award (ATEA) Honour Roll. She has also conducted multiple research projects and published papers on academic literacies, tutor and peer feedback in language education, English across the curriculum, and the use of technologies to enhance teaching and learning. Currently, she is leading a center-wide blended learning project at CELC and conducting a number of feedback literacy and AI-related projects on academic writing.
Assoc Prof Sarah Etherington
Associate Dean Learning & Teaching
Murdoch University
Putting the first-year in first-year units – meeting our students where they are.
Biography
I am the Associate Dean Learning and Teaching in the School of Medical, Molecular and Forensic Sciences at Murdoch University, located on Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar. A teaching-focused academic, I am nationally and internationally recognised for my excellence and leadership in tertiary science education. My scholarship is informed by my neuroscience training and my lived experience as a member of the LGBTIQA+ and disability communities. Recent research themes include the use of disciplinary core concepts to encourage deeper, more transferable learning and the development of inclusive curricula. I maintain an extensive undergraduate teaching load, as unit coordinator, lecturer and tutor in two first-year biology units, through which I implement and assess innovative curriculum approaches. I judge my own work by my ability to create teaching environments that are responsive to and exalt in student diversity, motivated by the goals of building community and providing pathways to success for all my students.
Mrs Natalie Callan
Assoc. Lecturer in Bioscience Education
Murdoch University
Co-presenter
Biography
Ms Sandy Baxter
Lecturer
Curtin University - School of Nursing
Game on: Building international nursing students’ professional nurse values with academic integrity
Biography
Sandy is a teaching focused lecturer at Curtin University School of Nursing. Sandy holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Nursing from Curtin University and a Master of Professional Education and Training from Deakin University. Sandy is also a Registered Nurse with registration in Australia, Singapore and Virginia, USA. She holds an affinity towards the education and professional leadership of promoting global lifelong learning in nurses that reflect current professional nursing standards and evidenced based best practice guidelines.
Sandy also has a passion for educating people from varied cultural backgrounds, and has extensive tertiary teaching experience within the Singapore context. The cultural learning styles and backgrounds of students is an area of focus within her research and teaching. Sandy's teaching philosophy also promotes student centred approaches, along with active and authentic learning. Learner engagement that uses new technologies that truly support student learning is also a key focus.
Dr Brie Willoughby-Knox
Adelaide University
Graduate Qualities: Paving the yellow brick road of Higher Education in Oz
Biography
Brie Willoughby-Knox is Manager, Educational Design at The University of Adelaide and is currently leading Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) Systems for Adelaide University. Brie holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics and has help academic and leadership positions at UTS and Central Queensland University.
Assoc Prof Graham Hardy
University of Adelaide
Co-presenter
Biography
Graham Hardy is currently Pro Vice-Chancellor (Student Learning) at The University of Adelaide. Graham was a longtime tertiary educator and researcher at the University of Manchester before becoming Dean, Academic Operations at Murdoch University and subsequently Director, Education Quality at the University of Adelaide.
