Conference 2016 - University of Otago - 30 November - 2 December

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 Summary Programme

Wednesday 30th November

1:00-2:00pm	Afternoon tea available and Registration opens
2:00-5:00 pm	Workshop/SIG - Future Ready Graduates
5:00-6:00 pm	Poster evening with drinks and nibbles

 

Thursday 1st December

8:00-9:00am	Registration opens
9:00-9:30 am	Conference opening
9:30-10:30am	First parallel session
10:30-11:00am	Morning Tea
11:00-12:00pm	Host group (1)
12:00pm-1:00pm	Second parallel session
1:00-2:00pm	Lunch
2:00-3:00pm	Host group (2)
3:00-3:30pm	Afternoon tea
3:30-4:30pm	Third parallel session
4:30-5:30pm	Host group (3)
6:30pm	Conference dinner

 

Friday 2nd December

8:30-9:30am	Fourth parallel session
9:30-10:30am	Host group (4)
10:30-11:00am	Morning tea
11:00-12:00pm	Fifth parallel session
12:00-12:15pm	Plenary - Director Ako, Stanley Frielick "Professional recognition and the scholarship of teaching and learning"
12:15-1:00pm	Lunch
1:00-2:00pm	Sixth parallel session
2:00-3:00pm	Host group (5)
3:00-4:00pm	Host group reports and conference close

 

Conference closes by 4:00pm Friday 2nd December

 

Future Ready Graduates

This workshop is to be delivered by a team who are about to begin an AKO funded project. The project investigates means of developing employability capabilities within degree programmes. 

Research tells us that to effectively prepare our graduates for their futures we should be developing ‘soft skills’ and generic and portable attributes to an advanced level. We know that this can only be achieved through deep and long learning. The workshop explores how this is and could be done within our existing resources and qualification constraints.

The aims of the pre-conference workshop are:

For participants to have an opportunity to:

• Develop their views on the standard and scope of employability capabilities graduates need
• Consider alternative means of teaching and assessing for employability
• Share good practices
• Reflect on their own courses in terms of employability capability development

Maximum numbers: 35 PAX

Presenters:

• Susan Geertshuis
• Rob Wass
• Narissa Lewis

 

The organisers gratefully acknowledge the generous support of
Ako Aotearoa in making the conference more accessible to delegates.