[Foundations] Call for expressions of interest for Cameos / Showcases for FUT Colloquium 2006

[Carol Bowie]

Hi all, 

We have an idea …….. so here ‘tis below ……. 
Expressions of interest are open until 

5pm Tuesday 3 October to C.Bowie at griffith.edu.au

Then we will decide on Wed 4 October if the process / session will run for 
this Colloquium.


Call for Expression of Interest for Participation in a
Cameo / Showcase of Programs 
(Induction, Foundations or Graduate Certificate)

One of the three outcomes flagged in the Carrick Grant Proposal:
Preparing University Teachers: A model for national collaboration
(submitted mid 2006 by the working party for the FUT Colloquium network)
focuses on the Progression of Scholarship. Elaboration of this section 
included the following outcomes:
·       a process for benchmarking and peer feedback
·       common tools for evaluating the impact of Foundations programs on 
teaching quality

In response to this initiative, and also to feedback from last years 
colloquium about requests for a resource table where programs and 
materials could be viewed, discussed, shared etc, we have designed a 
process to seed into all of these things. ……… It is something to have a go 
at, as a first pass and learn from the experience………


Process

Would you like to hear about other Foundations and Graduate Certificate or 
Induction Programs?
Would you like to talk about the Program that you offer?
Would you like some scholarly comment on some facet of your program?
Would you be happy to give some scholarly comment on some facet of another 
program?
If you answered yes to any of these questions then you may be interested 
in participating in this session at the Colloquium this year.

Below is an Overview of the Process we are suggesting. Feedback and 
comments or suggestions are certainly welcome.

If you are interested, please respond with the following details by reply 
email to Carol Bowie at GIHE at C.Bowie at griffith.edu.au

Name: ………………………
Program Title: ……………….
Program type: ……………………Foundations, Grad Cert, Induction etc.
Are you the Convenor?  ……………………..
Are you teaching in the program? ……………….
Contact details: 
Address: ………………………………
Phone: ……………………………….
Fax: …………………………………
Email: ………………………………

Would you be happy to be a discussant? ……………….. 
(see role in Process description below.)


We have initially scheduled one set of three concurrent sessions at 
3.30-4.30pm on Monday 23 October. This would facilitate presentations by 
six programs. (We would like to have at least two Foundations and two Grad 
Certs.) If there is more interest, then we have space to run a second set 
of three concurrent sessions allowing for another six presentations.

So get in quickly! First in first served!

Soooo …….. What do you think about the idea?
Any feedback, comments ideas etc welcome!!!

Cheers,

Carol

Have a good day!

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OVERVIEW OF SUGGESTED PROCESS

The process has four parts
1 Preparation
2 Presentation
3 Discussant Role
4 Follow-up

The timing of the session on the day will look something like this:

ONE HOUR SESSION



Presentation 1
(including statement of any specific feedback requests)
10-12 mins
Audience Questions
5 mins
Presentation 2
(including statement of any specific feedback requests)
10-12 mins
Audience Questions
5 mins
Discussant
10 mins
Audience Questions 

Audience feedback survey (paper based)
5 mins

5 mins


PREPARATION

Some of the following types of information might be useful to include:
·       program description or outline
·       content (literature, scope, concepts, connections etc.)
·       aims and objectives
·       learning outcomes
·       teaching and learning activities
·       assessment strategies and tools
·       evaluation strategies and tools
·       access, mode of delivery and timing
·       who teaches in the program
·       policy requirements / recommendations
·       program philosophy or rationale or alignment statement
·       resources, costs, time release
·       what is unique about this program that makes it the XX University 
program? (Identity? Character? Flavour? Experiences?)
The session ppt slides and any other relevant documentation will need to 
be emailed to the discussant so that they can prepare for the role on the 
day. This will need to be by Friday 13 October. If needed, the discussants 
could email the presenter(s) if they have further questions for 
clarification etc.

PRESENTATION

The presentation would be 10mins followed by 5 mins (max) questions from 
the audience.  So we suggest around 20 PPT slides or OHTs

If there is a particular facet of the program that you are talking about, 
that you would like the audience to give you feedback on at the end of the 
session, then please put that question on one of the PPT slides early in 
the session as a focus question for the audience.  We will include it in a 
written feedback sheet given to the audience at the end of the session for 
you.  Other questions for that sheet will be negotiated later with those 
involved in presentations at the session.

DISCUSSANT ROLE

This role will require the person to give scholarly comment about the 
facets of the program that the presenter flags as the focus for feedback. 
They will have two programs to respond to and will have 10 mins to speak 
at the session. This could include their feedback and seed questions for 
audience participation and discussion also.

FOLLOW UP

A written report (maybe a page???) could be given to the presenter by the 
discussant on the day of the session or emailed afterwards.

After the Colloquium we will ask for feedback about experiences from 
presenters, discussants, chairs and audiences.


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Dr Carol Bowie
Griffith Institute for Higher Education (GIHE)
(Mt Gravatt Campus)
Griffith University
Nathan,  Queensland
AUSTRALIA     4111

Phone  (07) 3875 6823
Fax  (07) 3875 5998 
international  61 7 3875 5998
email  c.bowie at mailbox.gu.edu.au
GU website:  www.gu.edu.au
GIHE website:  www5.gu.edu.au/gihe
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