Themes and Outcomes

Conference Themes

1. Teaching and learning in the first-year

• Dealing with large classes
• Innovation in the classroom and/or the curriculum
• Generic skills at first-year level
• Assessment

2. Academic support at first-year level

• Foundation programmes: structure and integration with the rest of the curriculum
• Access with success

3. Using technology to support first-year student success

• eLearning
• Profiling and tracking

4. Integrating the ‘whole student’ experience

• Encouraging psycho-social integration of students
• Orientation programmes
• The role of residential, extra-mural and all other out-of-class experiences.