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Teaching Matters 2012

Sustaining Futures: Considering sustainability across the learning and teaching divide.

Tuesday 4th December 2012, 10.30am - 4.30pm

The theme of Teaching Matters 2012 is Sustaining Futures: Considering sustainability across the learning and teaching divide.

A key task for Teaching Matters 2012 is to address the interwoven challenges associated with ideas about sustainability, specifically within the learning and teaching context. In doing so, we will be inviting University of Tasmania staff to submit abstracts for presentations on how these challenges have been, or are being, addressed in practice. Presentations must be linked to at least one of the four sub-themes. These are:

  • Sustaining Community: engagement strategies, innovations and practices with people internal and external to UTAS: professional staff, academics, students, business, industry and other community groups. This would include professional experience programs, work integrated learning, and community engagement.
  • Sustaining Curriculum: curriculum design and change to incorporate sustainability in its broadest sense; impacts upon generic graduate attributes; sustaining the transition of learning and teaching (for example, face-to-face to full online and flexible modes of delivery); sustaining curriculum to account for broader social, cultural, economic and environmental patterns and priorities.
  • Sustaining Campus: design, innovation and use of learning spaces; enhancing the student experience on campus; living laboratories and alternative teaching spaces; sustainable practices to enhance campus life.
  • Sustaining Culture: beliefs, values and cultural change in learning and teaching or across the institution; sustaining the role of learning and teaching within research intensive cultures; sustaining professional and academic roles in a changing tertiary sector; developing new and sustainable cultures.
Submissions and key dates

Submissions for showcase presentations, 'Pecha Kucha' and posters are now open.

Submission of showcase presentations, 'Pecha Kucha' and poster proposals are due Tuesday 2nd October 2012.

Please see the Submissions and key dates page for further details.

Teaching Matters will be held at the School of Architecture and Design, Inveresk Campus, Launceston.

  • The Teaching Matters Conference will be held from 10:30-4:30 on Tuesday 4th December 2012.
  • Transport will be provided from the Hobart and Cradle Coast campuses. Details to follow.
  • Given the sustainability theme of the conference, delegates are encouraged to travel via the organised buses from Hobart and the Cradle Coast. We ask that you please cancel your registration if you are unable to make the conference, to ensure that wastage is kept to a minimum. Leftover food will be provided to SecondBite (http://secondbite.org/).

Teaching Matters is the major showcase for learning and teaching at the University of Tasmania. This annual conference began in 2002 and provides an excellent opportunity to discuss teaching practice, recognise success in teaching and learning, showcase innovations and engender enthusiasm for excellence in learning and teaching.

It also provides a relaxed atmosphere with opportunities for participants to move between a variety of sessions, talk to presenters, and build networks with colleagues. Teaching Matters is open to all academic and professional staff interested in learning and teaching.


For information about submissions, program and proceedings, please contact the Co-Conveners of Teaching Matters 2012: Melody West (Melody.West@utas.edu.au) and Sandy Murray ((Sandra.Murray@utas.edu.au)