Dr Andrea Crampton, a lecturer with the School of Biomedical Sciences at CSU at Wagga Wagga, has been honoured for her development of innovative ways to teaching the subject, ‘Introduction to Forensic Science’ to arts, science and policing students located across Australia.With her students based locally and around the country, Dr Crampton created a crime scenario and then used Sakai through CSU so her students would role play and investigate the scene, share files and ideas about the crime in real time.
The students took on roles outside their professional experience; so if they were a police officer they would act as a scientist and vice-versa for students with scientific experience,” said Dr Crampton.
In addition, Dr Crampton used an interactive web page known as a Wiki to get her students to jointly compile a report on the crime science, including drawing diagrams and sharing comments in real time.
The alternative to the live, interactive Wiki is email which would entail my students continually sending around different versions of the report. This would not be as efficient nor would it replicate the continual, live sharing of ideas between the investigators of a real crime scene.”
The online learning environment for teaching and research, CSU Interact Andrea’s varied and innovative approach to engaging her students in the online learning environment has demonstrated the possibilities that CSU Interact offers our staff and students,” said Associate Professor Marian Tulloch, Executive Director, Division of Learning and Teaching Services.
Dr Crampton developed her award-winning teaching methods during her first semester as a subject coordinator at CSU in 2007.
The CSU academic will present her innovative use of Sakai to teach the subject ‘Introduction to Forensic Science’ to the 10th Annual Sakai Conference in Boston in the USA from Wednesday 7 July to Friday 10 July.
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