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Part B: Building Leadership Capacity - BUS: School of Economics, Finance & Marketing ART Report8.8 ResourcesWhat resources have you accessed and found useful? Eg journal articles,case studies etcIn undertaking this project, a number of resources were useful, and in somecases essential.These have been commented on earlier in this report and can be summarisedas follows:––A facilitator from the Learning and Teaching unit. This person wasparticularly useful in the early stages of framing the project and wasa valuable support throughout the project.––Journal articles/working papers, particularly on large class teachingas well as audience response systems.––CES data and additional data provided by the Survey Services Centre.What external expertise have you enlisted or accessed? How useful andin what ways has this been beneficial to your ART project?––Workshops with external parties, i.e. Carrick Award winner for large classinnovation, Peter Wagstaff from Monash University and Professor Sally Kiftfrom QUT, a Senior Carrick Fellow whose area of expertise is the first yearexperience. These speakers were useful in continuing the discussionon the challenges of both large classes and transition issues.What other resources eg people, finance, internal university funding etc havebeen available?Specialist research assistance with analysis and provision of data.––Assistance from the College’s ADG in recruiting and running studentfocus groups.––Funding associated with the project as well as LTIF grant funding for theaudience response system project in Marketing Principles.Have you developed any resources that may be useful for others to achievethese outcomes? Describe or list or append.This document will be made available on the School’s internal network driveand the initiatives described may be of use to other staff members.In addition the following Conference publications and Journal submissionshave been made :Mulye, R. and Westberg, K. (2009). 'Mobile Phone Clickers in the Classroom:Experiences from a Large Introductory Marketing Class.' Paper presentedat The World Universities Forum, IIT Powai, India, 16-18 January.Page 113