Teaching tips seminars

These seminars are designed to encourage sharing of ideas and best practice across the Faculty of Science. The emphasis in these informal, 30 - 40 minute sessions is on practical steps for improving and enhancing our teaching.

The location of the seminars rotate around the various disciplines in the Faculty but the topics are picked to reflect the issues that we share.

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UPCOMING SEMINARS

Caleb Owens: How to confront plagiarism, but never have to deal with it.

Date: Wednesday 30 May 2012
Time: 1.00pm
Venue: Carslaw Lecture Theatre 375

Many educators don’t confront student plagiarism because they fear uncovering high rates of cheating, and dread a long and difficult process in prosecuting the cases they find. However student plagiarism is best dealt with directly before students submit their first assignment. If early interventions in the context of good writing and referencing are sufficiently confronting and clear, educators need not fear plagiarism at all.

Dr Caleb Owens is the First Year Coordinator in the School of Psychology. Alongside Associate Professor Fiona White, he was recently awarded the VC Award for Support of the Student Experience for Psychology's "Constructive Feedback and Plagiarism Reduction Program".

SEMINAR ARCHIVE

For details about past seminars and related materials, visit the archive.