Inclusive Education Community of Practice – seminar Sally Kift, 3rd December
Dear Colleagues
This is to warmly invite you to a talk by Prof. Sally Kift on ‘Transition Pedagogy or Panic-gogy? The first-year experience in 2020’
Date/time: Thursday 3 December, 12-1:30 pm (Zoom details to come)
Abstract: As 2020 draws to a close and we pause to reflect on a tumultuous year in higher education, it is fair to say that while COVID-19 has accelerated some pre-pandemic trends, it has also accentuated a range of issues that have lurked perennially on the periphery of the student experience. Experts have counselled that we should not confuse emergency remote teaching with quality online learning and support, raising issues with which Deakin colleagues would be quite familiar. Now, as we focus on reviewing what worked well and perhaps did not, this presentation will examine one specific aspect of our pandemic response: what was COVID-19’s impact on our students’ first year experience and how might we prepare better and more inclusively and accessibly for Trimester 1 2021?
About Prof. Sally Kift: Professor Sally Kift is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA), a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law (FAAL), and President of the Australian Learning & Teaching Fellows (ALTF). She has held several university leadership positions, most recently Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at James Cook University. Sally is a national Teaching Award winner, a national Program Award winner and a national Senior Teaching Fellow on the First Year Experience. In 2010, she was appointed an Australian Discipline Scholar in Law. In 2017, Sally received an Australian University Career Achievement Award for her contribution to Australian higher education. Sally was a member of the Australian Qualifications Framework Review Panel that reported to Government in September 2019.
The event will be recorded, so if you are unavailable at the time but would like to hear the discussion, please register and I will send you a link to the recording afterwards. All Deakin staff are welcome.