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Embedding generic skills: a practical workshop for business academics
The registration to the workshop has been closed
- Date and time:
- 9.15am - 12.30pm, Wednesday, June 16th 2010
- Location:
- Martin Building (MARB)341. Map ref F6 (PDF, 1.58MB).
- La Trobe University, Bundoora
- Cost:
- Free
This ‘hands-on’ workshop for business academics is based on the outcomes of an ALTC funded project entitled “Embedding the Development and Assessment of Generic Skills in the Business Curriculum”. As the title suggests, the project addressed the issue of how to develop, embed and assess selected generic skills in business curricula in ways that are educationally meaningful and professionally relevant for students, academics and future employers.
The four generic skills are
- critical thinking
- ethical practice
- effective teamwork
- understanding sustainability.
The project team developed a set of resources, teaching techniques and assessment standards which have been trialled with students and reviewed by industry representatives and academics. In this workshop you will be able to review and discuss these resources and to investigate ways in which they can be used in your teaching. There will be an opportunity to investigate how to embed criteria from these four skills into assessment tasks.
The project website www.graduateskills.edu.au contains a more detailed outline, learning and teaching resources, standards of achievement and updates on project progress.
For more information, please contact Tori Vu, Project Manager, Associate Professor Theda Thomas or Dr Lynne Leveson.
Supported by the Australian Learning & Teaching Council and the Australian Business Deans Council, Teaching & Learning Network.
Participating universities
- Macquarie University (lead institution)
- University of Canberra
- Australian Catholic University
- La Trobe University
- University of Southern Queensland
- Edith Cowan University
- University of Tasmania
