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Keynote Speaker Profiles
Professor Beverley
Oliver
BA Hons (UWA) Grad Dip Education (Murdoch) M.Phil (UWA)
PhD (UWA)
Professor Beverley Oliver is Director of Teaching and
Learning at Curtin University where she has had extensive
experience in leading teaching and learning projects
such as the Hewlett-Packard Mobile Technology for Teaching
Grant Initiative (2004):Enhancing first year
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students' communication skills with mobile technologies
and flexible learning (US$110,500); creating and implementing
eVALUate(Curtin’s online student feedback system which was
recognised with a Carrick Citation in 2007) and Curriculum
2010 (Curtin’s university-wide curriculum reform initiative).
Oliver publishes in a range of teaching and learning areas,
including student transition, e-learning and m-learning,
student evaluation and curriculum renewal and graduate employability.
Professor Oliver is also the Project Leader for the ALTC
Competitive Grant Building course team capacity to enhance
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Prof.
Joan Gribble
PhD, MEd, Member of the Australian College of Educators
For many years, my teaching experience has been across all
sectors of education in Western Australia. My teaching
began in rural schools in Western Australia as a teacher
followed by appointments in several metropolitan schools
as a deputy principal and principal. Then, as a Superintendent
of Education, I held a position of inspecting schools around
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Over the next 20 years I was involved in the tertiary sector
teaching undergraduate students in teacher education (Early
Childhood Education), Language Learning K-7, Students with
Special Needs and supervision of masters and PhD students
in Science and Mathematics education. I then held the position
of Teaching Fellow for the Division of Engineering, Science
and Computing at Curtin University of Technology where my
role was to support academic staff and students to improve
teaching and learning. Part of my role was to work with
staff in researching their professional practice. Now my
work has moved to higher education in Malaysia. In
2007, I was appointed Dean (Academic and Teaching and Learning)
at the Curtin Sarawak Campus of Curtin University followed
by my appointment as Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor. I pursue
a wide range of research interests but especially in effective
organisational practices, curriculum theory and practice;
effective classroom practices related to teaching, learning,
and assessment; and equity issues in relation to gender,
socioeconomic status, cultural background, worldview, and
linguistic diversity. |
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