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Taking the plunge together: A student’s journey in co-designing with staff
byIn Semester 1 2025 I joined a project in my home area of study, the University of Sydney Business School, to help educators navigate…
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Taking the plunge together: A student’s journey in co-designing with staff
byIn Semester 1 2025 I joined a project in my home area of study, the University of Sydney Business School, to help educators navigate…
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Student Voices Driving Assessment Innovation
byJust like the iconic song that spells out RESPECT, successful co-design in education begins with valuing student voices. A recent strategic education project in…
Decolonising the curriculum and fostering empathy through intercultural literacy in the french classroom
byIntercultural literacy is both a key part of one of Sydney’s graduate qualities, cultural competence, and of our teaching in the School of Languages…
Two parallel lanes: the roadmap for a future-ready transformative education
byGenerative AI is a revolutionary technology whose impact on society, industry and individuals is likely to be far larger than the invention of the…
Navigating AI in Higher Education: tasks ahead for 2025 and 2026
byThe rise of generative AI marks a seismic shift in education: one that rivals the impact of the internet, the printing press, and electricity….
A recipe for relational pedagogy: Combining warmth, competence, high expectations, and academic rigour
byIn the very first class of a multi-cohort unit I was coordinating some semesters ago—the Ernst & Young Interdisciplinary and Community Project Unit (ICPU)…
Should I dispense this? Teaching pharmacists to decide with confidence
byLegal and ethical decision-making skills are essential for many healthcare professions, including pharmacists. Every day, pharmacists need to make decisions about whether prescriptions meet…
Listening to What Works: Insights from Sydney Coordinators on Student Experience
byIn early 2025, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education and Students) and the Strategy Portfolio partnered to engage nearly 100 Unit of Study Coordinators across the…
Closing the feedback loop: What we learned when our assessment changes failed
byWhat do you do as an educator when a successful teaching innovation completely backfires with a different student cohort? In a previous Teaching@Sydney article,…
From Page to Performance: How Interactive Orals Transform Academic Writing Pedagogy
bySince 2020, I have been teaching academic writing across undergraduate and postgraduate levels within the Discipline of English and Writing Studies at the University…
Feedback, fairness and flow: Group work management reimagined with SRES
byAs a new hire through the Sydney Education Horizon pathway, I was excited to be exposed to and amazed by the range of university-developed…
Guide to unit alignment: A systematic process for aligning your unit
byEnsuring coherent and purposeful program-level design has become a strategic and educational imperative as universities grapple with the challenges of digital transformation, shifting student…
Four strategies for implementing custom AIs that help students learn, not outsource
byThe launch of Cogniti has opened new opportunities for teachers at the University of Sydney to design customised AI agents that align with unit…
From Drawing to Predicting: An Integrated and Scaffolded Approach to Connecting Theory and Practice in Vet Medicine
byHow often do your students memorise content but struggle to explain the deeper connections that make that knowledge meaningful? In veterinary education, understanding the…
The Futures of Open Student Longform Writing at the University of Sydney
byIn 2022, just as ChatGPT became widely available, Stephen Marché declared in a much-quoted article that “The College Essay is Dead”[1] . Marché’s clickbait…
The Educational Design Accelerator: Making meaningful and sustainable changes to your assessment
byMaking changes to assessments can be challenging, whether it’s a unit you’ve taught many times or your first time teaching it. Educational practices thrive…
A snapshot of student diversity at Sydney
byThis article has been updated from the original (2021), and the 2022 and 2023 versions, to include data covering our current students. Our students come from many…
The partnership approach: Integrating AI and human feedback for enhanced learning
byFeedback has long been recognised as a cornerstone of effective learning, enabling students to identify strengths and areas for improvement in their academic work….
How to design custom AIs that can propel learning
byCogniti, a platform that lets educators easily build their own generative AI ‘agents’, offers exciting opportunities to enhance teaching and learning. The key to…
From AI Anxiety to Teaching Confidence: Ways Forward
byYour students are already using AI. The question isn’t whether AI belongs in higher education; it’s how you can engage with it thoughtfully and…
From Confused to Confident: How AI Chat Agents Enhanced Finance Learning
byLearning complex financial concepts like derivative securities is challenging. Students can struggle with the technical terminology, the trading platforms, and find it difficult to…
From Reactive to Intentional: The Impact and Opportunity of the Proactive Design Intensive
byTransparent, inclusive, and intentional course design is no longer a “nice to have”—it’s essential. As university classrooms become more diverse and student needs more…
Mapping students’ assumed mathematical knowledge with the Learning Hub’s Mathematics Academic Planner
byIn 2025, the University of Sydney removed HSC Mathematics Advanced as a compulsory prerequisite for several degrees, including Commerce, Economics, Science, Medicine, and Psychology….
Rethinking student evaluations: evidence and practice
byIn years gone by at the end of each semester, we would open an envelope containing hand-written student evaluations with a mix of expectation…