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| 8.00 - 9.00am | Registration, Tea/Coffee | |
| 9.00 - 9.15am | Welcome/Mihi Whakatau | |
| 9.15 - 9.30am | Conference Convenor/Housekeeping | |
| 9.30 - 10.30am | KEYNOTE Finding Your Way by Moonlight: Supporting Journeys to Unexpected Horizons Welby Ings |
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| 10.30 - 10.55am | Morning Tea | |
| 11.00 - 11.45am | Roundtables |
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| Bridging cultures over-under: Enabling success from the heart | Michelle Houge Joanne Forrest |
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| Manifestos, mutants and mash-ups: Punking the online learning experience |
Angela Jones Anita Olds |
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| Development of a multidisciplinary assignment for first-year engineering students |
Saad Odeh | |
| What is critical thinking? Pre-commencement perceptions of enabling students entering into university studies |
Frank Armstrong Trixie James |
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| Team-based and case-based learning: A hybrid pedagogy model enhancing students' academic performance and experiences at first-year tertiary level |
Shaimaa Atwa | |
| What's so positive about Positive Psychology in an enabling course? | Karen Seary Trixie James |
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| Intensive mode widening participation programs and threshold concepts: An uneasy fit |
Charmaine Davis Jonathan Green |
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| Enhanced formative classroom observations to support teaching practices for newly appointed tertiary educators |
Helen Van Toor | |
| 11.50 - 12.50pm | Workshops | |
| Diverse ways of knowing: Playful learning in higher education |
Sandra Elsom Marguerite Westacott |
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| Embracing and embedding malie and mafana, Tongan values that can transform science education in Aotearoa |
Sonia Fonua | |
| Redesign of a management subject to enhance student engagement and success by using the experiential learning approach |
Amita Krautloher | |
| 12.50 - 1.30pm | Lunch | |
| 1.35 - 2.35pm | Forum 'A Prickle-ly Perch': Collaborative Conversations about Mental Health and Wellbeing Marguerite Westacott |
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| 2.40 - 3.35pm | Pechakucha | |
| Aboriginal pedagogies and approaches in enabling programs |
Sharlene Leroy-Dyer | |
| Literacy and communication issues and concerns for nursing students from non-English speaking backgrounds (NESB) |
Diane Duff Tatra Palfery Heejin Chang |
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| Enabling learning through digital technologies |
Anthea Fudge Jennifer Stokes Tanya Weiler |
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| Rename to reframe: Is it time to stop "enabling" students? |
Jonathan Green | |
| "You can be good enough, you can be great!": An accelerated entry pathway program for school leavers |
Tatra Palfery Heejin Chang |
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| Learning analytics to promote deep learning: Framing information literacy assessment around student interests in enabling education |
Jennifer Stokes | |
| 3.40 - 4.00pm | Afternoon Tea | |
| 4.05 - 5.05pm | Roundtables | |
| Designing the Academic Literacy Level Test (ALLTest) |
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| Regimes of truth? The framing of literacy in the Literacy and Numeracy Adult Assessment Tool |
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| Rediscovering science: age, time and opportunity reigniting STEM participation |
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| Reflective encounters for enabling educators: The role of debriefing in building psychological capital |
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| Enabling success? |
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| Transition pedagogy and curriculum in an extended tertiary program informing regular university curriculum |
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| Mothers in enabling: Overcoming challenges to become better role models and an inspiration to their families |
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| What we are doing works! Maintaining favourable retention in the STEPS enabling course in an Australian university |
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| 5.10 - 5.30pm | FABENZ AGM | |
| 8.30 - 9.00am | Registration, Tea/Coffee | |
| 9.05 - 10.00am | Pechakucha | |
| Building a knowledge community: Fostering an inclusive learning environment in an Australian enabling program. |
Sarah Hattam Bianca Price Jennifer Stokes |
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| 'Reaching' your students: A multi-channel approach to teaching |
Paul Chojenta | |
| Enabling pedagogy: Insights for supporting student learning in enabling programs |
Jennifer Stokes | |
| Situated learning on a pre-degree programme: Experience and reflections |
Mary Hoover Sean Kimpton |
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| Supporting learning through online learning strategies |
Emily Saavedra | |
| Enriching mathematical learning experience using group tasks |
Yik Ching Lee | |
| Improving for success where every student matters |
Janelle Marrington | |
| Get ready, set, go! |
Hermina Conradie | |
| 10.20 - 10.35am | Morning Tea | |
| 10.40 - 11.40pm | Workshops | |
| Scaffolding strategies by distance: Unravelling good learning design practice in one distance learning context |
Aleesha Reid Tara Burghoff Mel Boyd |
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| 'Starting strong': Using workshops in week zero to foster student engagement and confidence |
Tanya Weiler Paul Oldham |
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| Two-eyed seeing for both ways knowing: Methodological approaches to enable indigenous academic engagement and success |
Joanne Forrest Michelle Hogue |
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| Word/s Matter/s!: A workshop on inclusive language |
Michelle Mansfield Kristen Allen |
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| 11.45 - 12.55pm | Ako Aotearo - launch of the new Adult Literacy, Numeracy and Cultural Capability Framework TEC, Helen Lomax, Joe Te Rito, Graeme Smith, Damon Whitton, Annette Van Lamoen A new way forward - building adult literacy, numeracy and cultural capability in Aotearoa's foundation sector |
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| 1.00 - 1.45pm | Lunch | |
| 1.45 - 2.25pm | Ako Aotearoa - Cultural Capability Mei Winitana |
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| 2.25 - 3.05pm | Open Forum (TBA) | |
| 3.10 - 3.30pm | Conference conclusion | |

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Rae Trewartha
Conference Convenor
+64 21 082 578
rtrewartha@unitec.ac.nz
Olivia Lynch
Registration Manager
+64 4 894 3939
olivia@conference.nz