Shelley Peers, the QUT 2010 Outstanding Alumni Award winner for Education, speaks about the Primary Connections program - its aims, underlying philosophy, and impact.

The Stronger Smarter Learning Communities project is a national landmark project emphasising high-expectations and relational approaches to Indigenous Education in a range of targeted school sites across Australia. This seminar evaulates and critiques the project, and explores its impact amongst indigenous communities.

The Stronger Smarter Learning Communities project is a national landmark project emphasising high-expectations and relational approaches to Indigenous Education in a range of targeted school sites across Australia. This seminar evaulates and critiques the project, and explores its impact amongst indigenous communities.

This seminar considers some of the tensions inherent in policy initiatives related to school assessment practice in England currently, and presents an example from developments in distance learning assessment practice at the Open University in England to enhance the authenticity of assessment, to ensure its functional role and formative potential for masters’ level students studying the course ‘Curriculum, learning and society: investigating practice’.

This seminar considers some of the tensions inherent in policy initiatives related to school assessment practice in England currently, and presents an example from developments in distance learning assessment practice at the Open University in England to enhance the authenticity of assessment, to ensure its functional role and formative potential for masters’ level students studying the course ‘Curriculum, learning and society: investigating practice’.

This lively seminar will discuss working examples of pedagogical patterns, where they are derived from and where they are used in practice. Hear speakers debate the key issues involved in using pedagogical patterns: the induction and development of teaching staff; the collaboration across a distributed workforce; and embedding innovation within traditional institutional and course structures.

This lively seminar will discuss working examples of pedagogical patterns, where they are derived from and where they are used in practice. Hear speakers debate the key issues involved in using pedagogical patterns: the induction and development of teaching staff; the collaboration across a distributed workforce; and embedding innovation within traditional institutional and course structures.

Rhonda Davidson-Irwin’s unique approach to music and education will inspire you to follow your own journey in whichever direction it takes you. Rhonda was recently a guest of the Chinese and Russian governments and travelled to their countries to educate and perform.

Rhonda Davidson-Irwin’s unique approach to music and education will inspire you to follow your own journey in whichever direction it takes you. Rhonda was recently a guest of the Chinese and Russian governments and travelled to their countries to educate and perform.

The oz-Teachernet has been a test bed for award-winning ideas and approaches in digital pedagogy which have been increasingly adopted by the mainstream. Dr Margaret Lloyd and Dr Shaun Nykvist speak on this technology and its impact in the classroom.