| Thursday, 10 November 2016 | |||
 9:00 am - 9:05 am | Welcome and Acknowledgment of Country | ||
| 9:05 am - 9:15 am | Higher Ed Services Dr Andrew Trnacek, CEO, Higher Ed Services | ||
| 9:15 am - 9:30 am | HECQN Patron Address | ||
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Measurement Changes What is Being Measured: What Does This Mean for the Measurement of Quality and Productivity in Higher Ed? Associate Professor Alan Bain, Director Smart Learning, Charles Sturt University Nick Drendenberg, Academic Secretary & Secretary, Academic Senate Office of Governance and Corporate Affairs , Charles Sturt University | ||
| 10:00 am - 10:20 am | Assuring achievement standards and the quality of assessment in higher education – ‘seeing the forest for the trees’ Emeritus Professor Geoff Scott, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education and Sustainability , Western Sydney University | ||
| 10:20 am - 10:40 am | Morning Tea | ||
| 10:40 am - 11:10 am | Achievement Matters: External Peer Review of Accounting Learning Standards Associate Professor Mark Freeman, Director, Accreditation , The University of Sydney Business School Professor Phillip Hancock, Associate Dean Teaching and Learning, UWA Business School , University of Western Australia | The good, the bad and the ugly of learning outcomes Professor Josua Pienaar, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Learning and Teaching, CQUniversity Nadine Adams, Snr lecturer (Academic Professional Development) , CQUniversity | Creating a national framework for student partnership in university decision-making and governance Professor Sally Varnham, Professor of Law , University of Technology, Sydney Aaron Ngan, Student, University of Technology Sydney Sadie Heckenberg, Doctoral candidate, Swinburne University Luke Chapman, Student, University of Technology Sydney |
| 11:10 am - 11:40 am | Benchmarking initial first year student experience and retention across 33 private providers Professor Jane Fernandez, Vice-President, Quality and Strategy , Avondale College Dr Sara Booth, Strategic Advisor Quality (External) , University of Tasmania | Resilence in higher education: Exemplars of practice Dr Noelene Weatherby-Fell, Coordinator, Master of Teaching Programs , University of Wollongong | Ensuring compliance and standards in international collaborations and partnerships Professor Prem Ramburuth, President, Academic Board , UNSW Professor Geoff Crisp, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) , UNSW |
| 11:40 am - 12:10 pm | Encouraging participation through blended learning design Jessica Oliver, Lecturer, Australian Institute of Higher Education Dr Hardik Vachharajani, Dr, Australian Institute of Higher Education | Developing an assurance of learning wish list Rosie Nash, Project Officer, Faculty of Health , University of Tasmania | Capacity-building for self-accrediting authority: A collaborative HEPP-QN model Rev Assoc Professor Denise Austin, Director Accreditation and Standards, Alphacrucis College Professor Jane Fernandez, Vice-President, Quality and Strategy , Avondale College Dr David Perry PhD, BTh (Hons), BMin, Chief Academic Officer , Alphacrucis College |
| 12:10 pm - 12:40 pm | A flipped classroom blended approach to the teaching of pharmacology – A student-centred approach Professor Emilo Badoer, Discipline Leader College of Science, Engineering and Health , RMIT University | The future of quality in higher education – what will it look like and how do we prepare for it? Julie Hare, Higher Education Editor, The Australian Associate Professor Angela Carbone, Director, Education Excellence, Monash University Office of Learning and Teaching Nicki Lee, Executive Director (Educational Partnerships and Quality) , La Trobe University Dr Marina Harvey, Invited Fellow, Queensland University of Technology | Going green: improving student satisfaction through collaboration Professor Hilary Winchester, Interim Vice-Chancellor, CQUniversity Professor Josua Pienaar, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Learning and Teaching, CQUniversity |
| 12:40 pm - 1:45 pm | Lunch and Networking | ||
| 1:45 pm - 2:15 pm | The implementation of Program Quality (PROQUAL) panels to drive quality in learning and teaching Associate Professor Thea van de Mortel, Deputy Head of School (Learning and Teaching) School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University | Quality assurance in unit design and delivery with sessional academic staff Dr Zachariah Duke, Academic Assistant to the Dean of Studies , The Broken Bay Institute | Addressing and Implementing strategies for TEQSA compliance against the new Higher Education Standards Framework Professor Pauline Taylor-Guy, Director ACER Institute , Australian Council for Educational Research |
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | Transitioning from VET competencies to higher education learning outcomes in complementary medicine Dr Spero P Tsindos, Lecturer, Professional Learning and Teaching Deakin Learning Futures , Deakin University | Implications of work on academic performance :a case study of international students in a private tertiary institution Sajan Cyril, Australian Institute of Higher Education Dr Hardik Vachharajani, Dr, Australian Institute of Higher Education | Preparing for re-registration under the new threshold standards (HESF) – a University of Wollongong outlook Jan Sullivan, Manager, Academic Quality and Policy Academic Quality and Standards Unit, University of Wollongong Dr Margaret Wallace, Associate Professor – Curriculum; Learning, Teaching and Curriculum, University of Wollongong Dr Ruth Walker, Senior Lecturer Learning Development, University of Wollongong Dr Simon Bedford, Senior Lecturer Assessment and Feedback Learning, Teaching and Curriculum, University of Wollongong |
| 2:45 pm - 3:15 pm | Embedding evaluation and research into teaching practice, curriculum design and delivery Dr Jo-Anne Kelder, Lecturer, Learning and Teaching Quality Faculty of Health, University of Tasmania Dr Andrea Carr, Head, Student Learning , University of Tasmania | A forced collaboration approach to quality assurance Stuart Schonell, Snr Teaching Fellow Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania Dr Stuart Crispin, Associate Dean Learning and Teaching Tasmanian School of Business and Economics , University of Tasmania | Standards guide TEQSA-compliant library services across Monash University: a case study Sue Owen, Director Excellence and Engagement Monash University Library, Monash University Kaye Lasserre BA, MInfoStud(AppRes), AALIA, Manager, Quality and Planning Monash University Library , Monash University |
| 3:15 pm - 3:40 pm | Afternoon Tea | ||
| 3:40 pm - 4:10 pm | Benchmarking Distributed Leadership Professor Sandra Jones, Director of the Centre for Business Education Research School of Management , RMIT University | Focus on feedback: case study Valerie Morey, Academic Professional Fellow School of Education , Curtin University | Assessing TEQSA's Risk and Regulatory Approach: Perception of Stakeholders Associate Professor Mahsood Shah, Deputy Dean Learning and Teaching School of Business and Law , CQUniversity |
| 4:10 pm - 4:40 pm | Assuring sessional teaching quality through benchmarking with the BLASST national standards Dr Marina Harvey, Invited Fellow, Queensland University of Technology | A collaborative governance framework to maximize the benefits of work-based learning Professor Amanda Henderson, School of Nursing and Midwifery , Griffith University | A method and a metric: measuring the relationship between cost and revenue as a trigger for quality improvement Professor Justin Walls PhD, DipMedEd, Deputy Dean Learning and Teaching Faculty of Health , University of Tasmania |
| 4:40 pm - 4:55 pm | Quality-assured professional recognition for university educators in Australia Dr Elizabeth Beckmann, Co-Chair, ANU Educational Fellowship Scheme Committee, Staff Education (Teaching and Learning), ANU Centre for Higher Education, Learning and Teaching, Australian National University | An alternative approach to the education of dental practitioners Dr Helen Tane, Discipline Leader, Oral Health Therapy School of Dentistry and Health Sciences , Charles Sturt University | Investigating Australian quality assurance practices and effectiveness: study of business schools |
| Friday, 11 November 2016 | |||
| 8:30 am - 8:50 am | Collaborating to support the sector Dr Sara Booth, Strategic Advisor Quality (External) , University of Tasmania Jacqui Elson-Green, HECQN Convenor, Higher Ed Services | ||
| 8:50 am - 9:20 am | Combatting Credential Fraud: An update on The Digital Student Data Project Neil J Robinson, Deputy Head & University Services and Registrar , The University of Melbourne | ||
| 9:10 am - 9:30 am | Plagiarism: From paper to paper Associate Professor Wendy Sutherland-Smith, School of Psychology , Deakin University | ||
| 9:30 am - 10:00 am | Being AWARE about academic integrity: A framework to promote discussion, identification and recall Dr Ann Rogerson, Snr Lecturer, Faculty of Business , University of Wollongong | ||
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Morning Tea - Sponsored by Digitary Secure Online Credentials | ||
| 10:30 am - 11:00 am | Approaches to promoting academic integrity in diverse student cultures Professor Stephen Naylor, Chair, Academic Board , James Cook University | ||
| 10:30 am - 12:00 pm | Professional learning for course quality Associate Professor Gail Wilson, Director, Centre for Learning and Teaching, Southern Cross University This session is a workshop open to all of you to come and share what you are doing within your institution regarding professional learning for academic staff engaged in the peer review of assessment and how you integrate that learning with institutional QA processes. We would like to share with you a focus that works well in the giving of formative feedback during the peer review process - an approach that utilises professional learning conversations between peers. We are looking forward to hearing what you plan in your institution, or are already doing that you can share with us on the day. | ||
| 11:00 am - 11:30 am | Addressing the challenge of managing a compulsory Academic Integrity Program (AIP) at a large university Dr Lesley T Sefcik, Lecturer and Academic Integrity Advisor , Curtin University | ||
| 11:30 am - 12:00 pm | Approaches to promoting academic integrity in diverse student cultures in the William Angliss Institute Faculty of Higher Education Laura Fleming, Lecturer/Academic Progress Coordinator , Faculty of Higher Education, William Angliss Institute | ||
| 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm | Lunch and Networking | Combined NSW/ACT and Victorian Quality Managers Network Meeting (Macedon Room) | |
| 1:15 pm - 1:45 pm | Academic integrity in action: discipline-specific approaches to promoting academic integrity and minimizing the risk of academic misconduct Dr Ruth Walker, Senior Lecturer Learning Development, University of Wollongong Dr Bronwyn James, Head of Academic Enrichment , The University of Sydney Dr Judith Gullifer, Associate Dean Academic, School of Psychology , Charles Sturt University | ||
| 1:45 pm - 2:15 pm | In search of excellence in academic integrity with proctoring Dr Steve Mackay PhD, BSc(ElecEng), BSc(Hons), MBA, MMR, CP Eng, FIE (Aust), Foundation Dean of Engineering, Engineering Institute of Technology | ||
| 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm | The causes of contract cheating and how to address it: what do student advocates think? Associate Professor Wendy Sutherland-Smith, School of Psychology , Deakin University | ||
| 2:45 pm - 3:00 pm | Forum wrap up Mr Anthony McClaran, CEO, TEQSA | ||
