Mini concert

• Report on the OECD/IMHE review of Quality Teaching in Higher Education
  Prof. Alenoush Saroyan (Chair, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology at Mc Gill University)
• QualityAssurance in Higher Education: The Case Study of Istanbul Technical University
  Prof. Derin Ural (Vice Rector, Istanbul Technical University)

Workshop
Room #4

• Enabling transitions: How a centre for teaching and learning enhances teaching quality at a research-led university
  François Cilliers (Stellenbosch University)
• Characteristics of effective and sustainable teaching development programs for quality teaching in higher education
  Heather Kanuka (University of Alberta)
• Reframing the pedagogical value of online environments
  Vincent Hui (Ryerson University)

Group 2 Chair: Nestor Torres, University of La Laguna

• Enhancing the scholarship of teaching through action research
  Patrícia Albergaria-Almeida (University of Aveiro)
• Assurance of lecturer’s competence and efficiency of activities at Mykolas Romeris University
  Inga Zaleniene (Mykolas Romeris University)
• Preservice mathematics teachers’ views about using geometer’s Sketch Pad
  Feride Ozyildirim (University of Hacettepe)

Group 3 Chair: Gülsün Sağlamer, Istanbul Technical University

• Peer observation as a mechanism to identify and promote quality teaching in higher education
  Rozilini Mary Fernandez-Chung (Malaysian Qualifications Agency)
• A competency-based course management system (C-BCMS) for the effective use of teaching competencies in higher education
  Olga Alegre and Luis Villar (University of La Laguna and Universidad de Sevilla)
• Beginning special education teachers: A model for assuring quality in a master in educating in diversity
  Olga Alegre and Luis Villar (University of La Laguna and Universidad de Sevilla)

Group 4 Chair: Erdal Emel, Uludağ University

• Competence-oriented course evaluation and follow-up measures
  Alexandra Dorfer (University Graz)
• Evaluating teaching in order to foster the professional development of university teaching staff: insights from policies and practices at Université de Lausanne
  Denis Berthiaume (Université de Lausanne)
• Evaluation of teaching at the University of Geneva: From individual focused to institution-wide approach towards quality
  Mallory Schaub (University of Geneva)

Group 1 Chair: Franc McMahon, Dublin Institute of Technology

• Guidance and mentoring during the first year of university studies
  Mercedes Chacón (Ministry of Education, Spain) and Miquel Martinez (University of Barcelona)
• A creative and effective physical learning space - Lessons learnt from the practice Minna-Maarit Jaskari (University of Vaasa)

Group 2 Chair: Elisabeth McDonald, Australian Learning and Teaching Council

• The transformative role of teachers in modern higher education
  Outi Kallioinen (Laurea University of Applied Sciences)
• Improving student learning: A systemic approach to institutional change
  Belinda Probert (La Trobe University)
• The alternate way of ‘Learning by Practice’ - A Buddhist approach to new education
  Koichi Ogasawara (Tohoku Fukushi University)

Group 3 Chair: Padraig Walsh, Irish Universities Quality Board

• Preliminary analysis of students’ perceptions of feedback in a New Zealand University
  Kala S. Retna (Victoria University of Wellington)
• A reflection on students’ self-efficacy expectancies: Paving the path to better achievement outcomes in higher education
  Amel Sakraoui Haddoune (University Badji Mokhtar)
• Using reflection in workplace learning : Is it possible to use both individual and collective reflection to reconcile the ‘three-party knowledge interests’ in the workplace?
  Anita Walsh (University of London)

Group 4 Chair: Gitte Duemose Hansen, University of Copenhagen

• Facilitation of collaborative learning: What works
  Chinthaka Balasooriya (University of New South Wales)
• Development of models for R&D integrated learning in knowledge production
  Ilkka Väänänen (Lahti University of Applied Sciences)
  

Group 5 Chair: Gabor Halasz, University of Budapest

• Government funding as leverage for quality teaching and learning
  Sabiha Yussuf Essack and Fatima Suleman (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
• Building up a learning community: The Academic Support Program
  Huriye Arıkan (Sabancı University)
• Employability through competencies and curricular innovation: a Portuguese account
  Eva Oliveira Guimarães and Isabel de Castro Guimarães (Catholic University of Portugal)

Chair: Alenoush Sorayan, McGill University
• Integrated Student Success Plans in the Quebec College System
  Lyne Boileau, Stephen Tribble (CEGEP Federation)
• The national teaching fellowship scheme in England and Northern Ireland
  Lesley-Jane Eales-Reynolds (University of Westminster)
• Financial incentives to improve quality and relevance of higher education in Finland
  Kirsi Hiltunen and Matti Kajaste (Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council)

Chair: Dilek Boyacioglu, Istanbul Technical University
• Australian Learning and Teaching Council – A national organisation charged with advancing Australian learning and teaching in higher education
  Elizabeth McDonald (Australian Learning and Teaching Council)
• DOCENTIA-ULL: A programme for Evaluating, Promoting and Development of Teaching Performance
  Néstor V. Torres Darias (University of La Laguna), and Isabel Belmonte Otero (Agency for Quality Assurance in the Galician University System)
• An evaluation model of the teaching activity of university lecturers
  Jose Miguel Carot Sierra (Polytechnic University of Valencia)

Chair: Birgul Tantekin, Istanbul Technical University
• System accreditation and its potential for integrated, evidence-based and effective quality assurance and development of study programs
  Christoph Rosenbusch and Tanja Grendel (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
• Quality of Continuing Education: A Quebec Example in Teacher Education
  Colette Deaudelin (University of Sherbrooke)
• The role of adjunct faculty in quality teaching
  Mason Scott (City University of Seattle)

Chair: Scott Mason, City University of Seatle
• Promoting the quality of teaching in Higher Education: Initiatives undertaken at the University of Aveiro
  Ana Vitoria Batista (University of Aveiro)
• Professional development and enhancement of the teaching quality: How to integrate individual and institutional actions?
  Bernadette Charlier Pasquier (University of Fribourg)
• Improving the quality of teaching from the institutional level in a complex, multi faculty university setting. How to increase quality without losing local ownership
  Gitte Duemose Hansen (University of Copenhagen)
• Engendering a culture of quality enhancement in teaching and learning-lessons learned
  Lesley-Jane Eales Reynolds (University of Westminster)

Chair: Outi Kallioinen, Laurea University of Applied Sciences
• Shifting institutional culture, promoting teaching excellence and evaluating progress
  Heather Henshaw (South East European University)
• Management of initiatives to ensure quality teaching
  Frank McMahon (Dublin Institute of Technology)
• Knowledge production within the innovation system: a UK case study
  Sarah Wilson-Medhurst (Coventry University)
• Reaching for the Stars. Reflections on institutional quality strategies and practices in a top-down bottom-up perspective
  Annette Lorentsen (Aalborg University)

• Robert Santa (Member - Academic Affairs Committee, European Students' Union - ESU)
• Prof. Padraig Walsh (Chief Executive, Irish Universities Quality Board)
• Prof. Motohisa Kaneko (Dean, Graduate School of Education, the University of Tokyo)

Lunch

Final plenary: Key note speech and discussion of conclusions from working groups

• Prof. Gábor Halász (Professor of Education, ELTE University Budapest)

14.45-15.00