Wednesday, 8th July Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia 2015

• Challenges and Opportunities – Universities in a rapidly changing world - Anne-Marie Lansdown

• Professor Jennelle Kyd (Panel Moderator), Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor & Provost, Swinburne University 
• Professor Betty Leask, Pro Vice-Chancellor Teaching and Learning, La Trobe University 
• Adam Baker, Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning, School of Business, Federation University 
• Anthony Matis,  FCPA, General Manager for Business Development, Education, CPA Australia
• Sashika Abeyratne, Swinburne University

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• Professor Suzi Vaughan (Panel Moderator), Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Learning and Teaching), Queensland University of Technology
• Professor Sandra Wills, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Student Learning), Charles Sturt University
• Allyn Radford, CEO, Deakin Digital
• Dr. George Siemens (Keynote speaker), University of Texas Arlington
• Gen George, CEO, OneShift
• Danielle Teychenne, Deakin University

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• Building 21^st century global capacity through whole person education  - Spencer A. Benson

• Layers of transition: The lived experiences of online distance learners  - Helen Wozniak

• “An essential right”: Findings from an evaluation of a professional development program for tutors - Vanessa J. Fredericks

• Building a bridge between secondary and tertiary studies: Engaging students in self-regulated learning through formative feedback - Gwen Lawrie

• Educating students to become effective team members: A program-wide approach - Bernadette Sebar

• Exploring undergraduate students’ motivation and engagement in China - Hongbiao Yin

• Supporting researchers at different career levels - Jennie Billot

• Professor Hilary Winchester (Panel Moderator), Provost and Vice President, CQUniversity Australia
• Professor Kerri-Lee Krause, Provost, Victoria University
• Andrew Norton, Higher Education Program Director, Grattan Institute
• Dr. Gardner Campbell (Keynote speaker), Virginia Commonwealth University
• Yuan Gao, University Melbourne

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Facilitator: Leonie Russell 

• Quality in Australian outbound student mobility programs: Establishing good practice guidelines for international work-integrated learning - Helen Flavell and Sonia Ferns
• Improving work placements for international students - Anna Podorova and Sonia Ferns
• Enhancing workplace learning through mobile technology - Leoni Russell
• Building institutional capacity to enhance access, participation and progression in Work Integrated Learning (WIL) - Sonia Ferns

• Curriculum first / not technology: Facilitating the design of blended and online units with teaching teams - Stephen Linquist and Rachael Phegan

• Learning to lead adaptively through uncertainty. An applied improvisation workshop - Rowan Brookes and Diana Renner

• Transforming assessment via global and local learning networks - Mathew Hillier and Karen Sheppard
• Learning online: Reflection, engagement and motivation; enhancing learner engagement in the MOOC environment - Leanne C. McCann and Barbara Yazbeck
• Recognising learner autonomy: Lessons and reflections from a joint x/c MOOC - Shane Dawson
• Development and evaluation of a mobile application as an e-learning tool for technical wine assessment - Kerry Wilkinson
•  Experiential learning for 'growing' professional planning graduates - Christine Slade

• Exploring the presence and teaching of threshold concepts in occupational therapy - Kelli Nicola-Richmond
• Developing a curriculum for Industrial Design education for a female-only college in Saudi Arabia: Cultural and socio-economic implications - Elke Stracke, Carlos Montana Hoyos and Sylvia Alston
• A framework for comparative evaluation of different models of IPL - Maree O'Keefe
• Enhancing learning for construction industry professionals with a 4-dimensional digital learning environment - Chris Landorf
• The science Learning and Teaching Academic Standards project: A discipline community’s response to regulatory change in Australian tertiary education  - Jo-Anne Kelder

• Tales from the abyss; ensuring doctoral candidates make the leap into meaningful outcomes - George Carayannopoulos
• EAL doctoral candidates evaluate their language learning experiences at a New Zealand University - Janet von Randow and Morena Dias Botelho de Magalhaes
• Developing teaching capability – the missing link for global employability of post-doctoral students? - Ann Luzeckyj
• The sense of efficiency and productivity among PhD students - KwongNui Sim
• Assembling ourselves differently: Contesting the dominant imaginary of doctoral supervision - Barbara M. Grant

• The myth of job readiness? Written communication, employability, and the ‘skills gap’ in higher education - Tim Moore
• Graduate attributes, learning outcomes and assessment: Beyond alignment to engagement - Agnes Bosanquet
• Destination China: Students’ and managers’ expectations of attributes needed by Chinese graduates of Australian tourism and hospitality degrees - Katrine Sonnenschein
• A reciprocal relationship: Informing a profession’s competency standards - Rose Nash
• Graduate attributes: A generative curriculum model for international students - Yoshi Budd

• Realising the motto of the College through service-learning: The case of Hong Kong - Barley Mak
• Using a volunteer feeding assistance program to develop pre-clinical skills in postgraduate dietetics students - Jane Kellett
• Service learning and learning for service in Chinese medicine education - Hong Qi Zhang
• Learning through simulation to Immerse students in Interprofessional practice - Karen Livesay
• Metacognition as pedagogy in a BA work-integrated learning course: A hybrid academic/internship approach - Kathryn Sutherland

• How we live and work is an important concern in our complex society - George Siemens