{"id":1743,"date":"2016-05-26T12:44:15","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T02:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education-portfolio\/ei\/teaching@sydney\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2016-08-07T23:47:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T13:47:50","slug":"retaining-engaging-first-family-learners-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/retaining-engaging-first-family-learners-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Retaining and Engaging First-in-Family Learners in higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of her OLT Fellowship on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstinfamily.com.au\/blog\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Engaging and Retaining First-in-Family Learners<\/a>, Associate Professor Sarah <span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\">O&#8217;Shea<\/span>\u00a0will be running a two-day forum exploring best practice and research in this field. This free two-day event will be held at the\u00a0University of Wollongong\u00a0on\u00a0Thursday 24th\u00a0and Friday 25th\u00a0November, 2016 and is targeted at higher education staff in various disciplines and areas.<\/p>\n<p>The forum will commence with afternoon workshops on Thursday 24th November from 2.00 &#8211; 4.30pm, focused on two exciting programs with Indigenous students that demonstrate innovations in the design of access, engagement and retention of first-in-family students.\u00a0Throughout the day on Friday 25th, the forum will feature\u00a0presentations from\u00a0invited guest speakers\u00a0as well as 15 minute lightning Best Practice presentations in supporting and engaging first-in-family learners. Look out for the call for submissions will July 2016.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com.au\/e\/conversations-about-retaining-and-engaging-first-in-family-learners-in-he-forum-fri-2511-pre-forum-tickets-24454848109\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of her OLT Fellowship on Engaging and Retaining First-in-Family Learners, Associate Professor Sarah O&#8217;Shea\u00a0will be running a two-day forum exploring best practice&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"coauthors":[489],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-events","post-item","post-even"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1744,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/1744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}