Greetings from the ANU Learning and Teaching Innovation Showcase in Canberra. Staff are giving short talks on their teaching innovation, and there are three workshops: 1: Blended Learning - Small Changes, Big Impact, 2: Creating Accessible Digital Content, & 3: Teamwork & Transdisciplinary Community of Practice. I picked the third workshop as I teach students to work in teams.
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| Dr Andrew Carr |
The first of the short talks was on teamwork, being by
Dr Andrew Carr on the "Case Method", where he has students do stuff. He contrasted the traditional approach where you tell the student stuff, versus giving them the task of finding, sifting and making sense of information themselves. Dr Carr, learned about the case method
at Harvard Business School. It is useful to see you can do this on a small scale, just for one lesson, as well as for semester long projects.
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| Dr Penny Kyburz |
The second talk was by
Dr Penny Kyburz on scaffolding for entrepreneurship. The problem is that students tend to select projects provided by external clients, rather than develop their own. Providing startup grants did not help. An alternative tried was to send students to an entrepreneurship competition run externally. With this experience a tech entrepreneurship program for ANU, between the business and computing faculty.
