Seminar: Rethinking Systems Thinking

Speaker: Shayne Flint, Senior Lecturer, Department of Computer Science (DCS, ANU)

Date: Thursday, 9 October 2008

Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Venue: CSIT Seminar Room, N101, CSIT Building, Building (108), North Road, ANU (campus map)

Website: Seminars @ CECS

Enquiries: Dr Malcolm Newey
Systems Thinking refers to a set of approaches that can be used to learn about and make decisions regarding improvements to dynamically complex systems. They are distinguished from other approaches by their focus on the whole and the study of interactions among the parts of a system, rather than the parts themselves. While focusing on interactions helps us understand complex systems and identify appropriate improvements, it is necessary to use detailed knowledge of the parts and other aspects of a system to implement any improvements.

Dr Flint introduces a novel Systems Thinking approach which uses detailed knowledge of the parts to both understand the whole, and to build the systems required to implement necessary improvements.

This seminar is part of the DCS Seminar Series.

Shayne Flint is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, Australian National University, and is an active member of the department’s Software-Intensive Systems Engineering group. Dr Flint has broad industry experience and is the originator of Aspect-Oriented Thinking, a systematic approach to developing, managing and integrating the multi-disciplinary knowledge and expertise required to understand and improve complex systems.

Original Seminar Notice at: Rethinking Systems Thinking, CECS Seminar List, The Australian National University, 2008

Introduction to Research Integration for Knowledge and Action

The ANU College of Medicine and Health Sciences and the the ANU Integration Network are organizing a short course of graduate Students on 8 and 9 September 2008.

Introduction to Research Integration for Knowledge and Action is a short one-day course introducing graduate students to integration studies and its role in their research.

An interesting part of the course is the opening dinner on 8 September 2008. The dinner is a pre-requisite for the course and is aimed to introduce the participants and course leaders.

But it is not all fun and games for graduate students. 9 September promises to be a marathon session of enlightenment from 09:00 to 16:00!

This should be an interesting course to attend, particularly so since my work focuses on informing dialog in decisions.

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Varietas: Multidisciplinary Themes in Teaching

Pinnacle is the premier Teacher Training program for PhD students at The Australian National University.

Among other activities in the training program, the students are required to facilitate and organize Teaching Interest Groups in their local area.

Varietas-TiG is a Teaching Interest Group (TiG) that focuses on multidisciplinary themes in teaching.

Topics of discussion will cover:

1. A multi-disciplinary approach to teaching and course management
2. Reconciling different pedagogical approaches across disciplines
3. Incorporating a wider spectrum of research-led themes as guides for teaching
4. Integrating reusable knowledge across disciplines in skills and services-oriented curriculum
5. Develop an effective methodology to reuse the semantic richness of multiple disciplines

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