Seminars, conferences and activities

The Faculty of Education hosts state, national and international conferences for the advancement of research, teaching and learning. Please see our upcoming conferences.

Staff and Graduate students (PhD/EdD) regularly present sessions within the Faculty. Staff and students are welcome to attend these sessions.

2009 Presentations

- held in G421A from 12-1pm, unless otherwise indicated.

Date	Presenter	Title	Abstract
25 June	Peter Albion	Interaction, learner styles and content in online courses: implications for teacher preparation	This paper reports on research into online learners' preferences for interaction and considers the implications of the findings for preparing educators to work more effectively in online environments.
11 June	Anne Casley	One school's approach to values education and the social and discursive construction of citizenship	The main focus of this investigation will be the question of how the school approaches values education and how students are socially and discursively constructed as learners and future Australian citizens.
4 June	Petrea Redmond	Online Collaboration for Learning	This seminar will discuss several online collaborative activities that our pre-service and masters students are involved in.
27 May	Professor Terry Evans (Deakin University) 1-2pm	Trends in Australian PhDs and the implications for education in universities	This seminar presents data and analyses from current and recent research, funded by the ARC and Australian Government, conducted by the presenter and colleagues into the growth and development of PhD programs in Australia, and into the nature of the work of doctoral students in Australia. This research established a database of Australian thesis records—from the first in 1948 through to 2006, coded by discipline—and collected data through a national survey of doctoral students on their doctoral and other work.
10 March	A/P Solveig Jakobsdottir - visiting scholar	Making distance education 'cool (down)"? Tale of two merging universities in Iceland.	In the summer of 2008, two of the largest and oldest universities in iceland merged: Iceland University of Education and University of Iceland. in some ways the academic culture was similar at those two institutions. However, a big divide existed in relation to access to education and approaches to organiszing distance education courses including the choice of learning management systems and technical environment.

Dissertation sessions

All students and staff are invited to the Faculty of Education Doctoral Proposal Presentations.

Visiting Scholars

From 25-29 May 2009, Professor Terry Evans from Deakin University will be visiting the Faculty of Education's Toowoomba and Springfield campuses. Professor Evan's schedule (doc 47Kb)