MPLF M16 - Research and ethics in evidence-based learning and teaching

This 2-hour session is part of Module 16 of the Modular Professional Learning Framework and will be delivered via Zoom.

The aim of this module is to upskill staff in performing 'scholarship of teaching and learning' (SoTL), which involves systematic inquiry into the processes and outcomes of student learning in order to make these public and further improve teaching practices. We will discuss the ins and outs and practical techniques for 'doing research' on your own students and your own learning and teaching, as well as approaches to human ethics approvals..

For full module details visit: M16 - Research and ethics in evidence-based learning and teaching

To find out more about the Modular Professional Learning Framework and to enrol, visit the MPLF Canvas site.

MPLF M17 - Designers' Community of Practice - Connections

Designers' Community of Practice - Connections is a community of practice for educational designers, educational support officers, and anyone interested in advancing learning design at the University. 

In this two-hour session, colleagues from across the University (please click through for more about our speakers) showcase their recent projects.

MPLF M17 - Designers' Community of Practice - Connections

Designers' Community of Practice - Connections is a community of practice for educational designers, educational support officers, and anyone interested in advancing learning design at the University. 

In this two-hour session, colleagues from across the University (please click through for more about our speakers) showcase their recent projects.

SEFP D1 and D2 - Writing for Associate Fellowship and Fellowship PSF 2023

This workshop provides two hours of structured time for applicants submitting for AFHEA or FHEA recognition to work on their written application while asking questions on aspects related to writing, submission or assessment process.

SEFP D3 - Writing for Senior Fellowship PSF 2023

This workshop provides two hours of structured time for applicants submitting for SFHEA recognition to work on their written application while asking questions on aspects related to writing, submission or assessment process.

SEFP D1 and D2 - Writing for Associate Fellowship and Fellowship PSF 2023

This workshop provides two hours of structured time for applicants submitting for AFHEA or FHEA recognition to work on their written application while asking questions on aspects related to writing, submission or assessment process.

SEFP D3 - Writing for Senior Fellowship PSF 2023

This workshop provides two hours of structured time for applicants submitting for SFHEA recognition to work on their written application while asking questions on aspects related to writing, submission or assessment process.

Demystifying Gen-AI for Educators

Turn AI anxiety to classroom clarity: join our 60-minute tailored workshop where we'll use pre-session polls to focus on what matters to you–bring along your questions and concerns, invite a buddy and leave with practical resources you can use tomorrow. 

[FULLY BOOKED] Introduction to Cogniti - an AI that teachers can steer

Cogniti is a new generative AI tool that lets teachers build custom chatbot agents that can be given specific instructions, and specific resources, to assist student learning in context-sensitive ways. Developed here at the University of Sydney, Cogniti allows you to create steerable and accurate agents powered by generative AI. This workshop will introduce you to Cogniti and how it might help support your teaching and assessments. Through hands-on practice with the platform, you'll easily build a custom AI agent for teaching that can behave how you need it to.

Find out more about Cogniti at https://cogniti.ai/ 

AI workshop lab 2 - AI as a creative assessment partner

Transform one creative assessment in 90 minutes. Learn how AI can enhance debates, performances, and creative projects without losing authenticity for both educators and students.

Generative AI workshop lab 3 - Student-centred activity prototyping with AI

In this hands-on design sprint you’ll prototype a short activity where students use AI meaningfully and ethically. Choose your tools, focus, and student input level. Leave this session with the elements of lesson plan that incorporates AI in a student cantered, discipline appropriate way. 

Generative AI workshop lab 1 - Prompting

Not all prompts are created equal. This lab demystifies prompting by blending tool knowledge with sound pedagogy. Experiment with refining ineffective prompts, applying the RTRI framework and steps to craft dual-purpose prompts for student learning and feedback, and comparing outputs across tools, including Cogniti.

[FULLY BOOKED] Introduction to Cogniti - an AI that teachers can steer

Cogniti is a new generative AI tool that lets teachers build custom chatbot agents that can be given specific instructions, and specific resources, to assist student learning in context-sensitive ways. Developed here at the University of Sydney, Cogniti allows you to create steerable and accurate agents powered by generative AI. This workshop will introduce you to Cogniti and how it might help support your teaching and assessments. Through hands-on practice with the platform, you'll easily build a custom AI agent for teaching that can behave how you need it to.

Find out more about Cogniti at https://cogniti.ai/ 

Demystifying Gen-AI for Educators

Turn AI anxiety to classroom clarity: join our 60-minute tailored workshop where we'll use pre-session polls to focus on what matters to you–bring along your questions and concerns, invite a buddy and leave with practical resources you can use tomorrow. 

Generative AI workshop lab 1 - Prompting

Not all prompts are created equal. This lab demystifies prompting by blending tool knowledge with sound pedagogy. Experiment with refining ineffective prompts, applying the RTRI framework and steps to craft dual-purpose prompts for student learning and feedback, and comparing outputs across tools, including Cogniti.

AI workshop lab 2 - AI as a creative assessment partner

Transform one creative assessment in 90 minutes. Learn how AI can enhance debates, performances, and creative projects without losing authenticity for both educators and students.

Cogniti masterclass

In this masterclass for experienced users of Cogniti, we'll take a deep dive into ways to build better agents and share with each other our discoveries and tips. There will also be time for a live clinic where we can review and improve your agent together.

Find out more about Cogniti at https://cogniti.ai/ 

Generative AI workshop lab 1 - Prompting

Not all prompts are created equal. This lab demystifies prompting by blending tool knowledge with sound pedagogy. Experiment with refining ineffective prompts, applying the RTRI framework and steps to craft dual-purpose prompts for student learning and feedback, and comparing outputs across tools, including Cogniti.

Introduction to Cogniti - an AI that teachers can steer

Cogniti is a new generative AI tool that lets teachers build custom chatbot agents that can be given specific instructions, and specific resources, to assist student learning in context-sensitive ways. Developed here at the University of Sydney, Cogniti allows you to create steerable and accurate agents powered by generative AI. This workshop will introduce you to Cogniti and how it might help support your teaching and assessments. Through hands-on practice with the platform, you'll easily build a custom AI agent for teaching that can behave how you need it to.

Find out more about Cogniti at https://cogniti.ai/ 

AI workshop lab 2 - AI as a creative assessment partner

Transform one creative assessment in 90 minutes. Learn how AI can enhance debates, performances, and creative projects without losing authenticity for both educators and students.

Introduction to Cogniti - an AI that teachers can steer

Cogniti is a new generative AI tool that lets teachers build custom chatbot agents that can be given specific instructions, and specific resources, to assist student learning in context-sensitive ways. Developed here at the University of Sydney, Cogniti allows you to create steerable and accurate agents powered by generative AI. This workshop will introduce you to Cogniti and how it might help support your teaching and assessments. Through hands-on practice with the platform, you'll easily build a custom AI agent for teaching that can behave how you need it to.

Find out more about Cogniti at https://cogniti.ai/ 

Cogniti masterclass

In this masterclass for experienced users of Cogniti, we'll take a deep dive into ways to build better agents and share with each other our discoveries and tips. There will also be time for a live clinic where we can review and improve your agent together.

Find out more about Cogniti at https://cogniti.ai/ 

Introduction to Cogniti - an AI that teachers can steer

Cogniti is a new generative AI tool that lets teachers build custom chatbot agents that can be given specific instructions, and specific resources, to assist student learning in context-sensitive ways. Developed here at the University of Sydney, Cogniti allows you to create steerable and accurate agents powered by generative AI. This workshop will introduce you to Cogniti and how it might help support your teaching and assessments. Through hands-on practice with the platform, you'll easily build a custom AI agent for teaching that can behave how you need it to.

Find out more about Cogniti at https://cogniti.ai/ 

AI and Assessment Seminars - Guiding students' use of AI

This new seminar series invites colleagues to share practices around AI and assessment that are transferable, practical, and authentic. Incorporating useful guidance for students on how to use AI well for their learning and assessment tasks is an important part of implementing the New Assessment Framework and developing AI-literate graduates ready for the future of work. In addition, students and academics alike can benefit from prompting well to get higher quality ouputs from AI. In this session, Tatjana Seizova-Cajic (Faculty of Medicine and Health) will walk us through how to create an AI prompt guide tailored for one’s own teaching context. Attendees will have the opportunity to create their own AI prompt guide for use in their unit of study – just in time for semester 2 assignments!

AI workshop lab 2 - AI as a creative assessment partner

Transform one creative assessment in 90 minutes. Learn how AI can enhance debates, performances, and creative projects without losing authenticity for both educators and students.

AI and Assessment Seminars - Structured groupwork

This new seminar series invites colleagues to share practices around AI and assessment that are transferable, practical, and authentic. Educators know that attendance alone does not guarantee engagement in class, nor learning of course material. However, in this session, we will hear Natalie Silver (Sydney Law School) describe how she successfully uses structured groupwork to guide and support student engagement with class material, develop leadership skills and capabilities in her students, and how she uses this structured groupwork as an authentic assessable task for individual students in her course.

AI workshop lab 2 - AI as a creative assessment partner

Transform one creative assessment in 90 minutes. Learn how AI can enhance debates, performances, and creative projects without losing authenticity for both educators and students.

AI workshop lab 2 - AI as a creative assessment partner

Transform one creative assessment in 90 minutes. Learn how AI can enhance debates, performances, and creative projects without losing authenticity for both educators and students.

AI and Assessment Seminars - Essays in the era of LLMs

This new seminar series invites colleagues to share practices around AI and assessment that are transferable, practical, and authentic.

In the age of GenAI, you may be worrying or simply wondering, how can I help my students still learn to write in the age of AI? A topic is relevant university-wide to anyone who asks students to write in their submitted assessment tasks, in this seminar, A/Prof Huw Griffiths from the Discipline of English and Writing, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, will guide us to discover possible futures for student writing. As well as an introduction to key issues, we will canvass practical strategies.

[ALMOST FULL] SRES for beginners - Getting started with personalisation

The SRES is a system built by academics at the University of Sydney to help other academics personalise student learning and support. This workshop is for new or beginner users of the tool, and will give you guided hands-on experience in setting it up and using it in your unit of study.

Read more about the SRES, or register here.

Introduction to Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Join us for a 70-minute workshop (with additional 20 minutes Q&A) where we explore the CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework.

Introduction to Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Join us for a 70-minute workshop (with additional 20 minutes Q&A) where we explore the CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework.

Designing for Diversity

Join us for a 120 minute workshop where we explore how to enhance inclusivity in the classroom and lower barriers in the learning environment for students by drawing on the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). This workshop will be an opportunity to understand the designing for diversity mindset and brainstorm ideas for your learning environment.

Designing for Diversity

Join us for a 120 minute workshop where we explore how to enhance inclusivity in the classroom and lower barriers in the learning environment for students by drawing on the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). This workshop will be an opportunity to understand the designing for diversity mindset and brainstorm ideas for your learning environment.

Introduction to Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Join us for a 70-minute workshop (with additional 20 minutes Q&A) where we explore the CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework.

Introduction to Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Join us for a 70-minute workshop (with additional 20 minutes Q&A) where we explore the CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework.

DIY Recording Booth Face to Face Orientation Session 23 September

The orientation is a 1.5-hour interactive workshop aimed at introducing you to recording, editing and publishing videos in the DIY Recording Booth.

DIY Recording Booth Face to Face Orientation Session 25 September

The orientation is a 1.5-hour interactive workshop aimed at introducing you to recording, editing and publishing videos in the DIY Recording Booth.

DIY Recording Booth Face to Face Orientation Session 25 Novemeber

The orientation is a 1.5-hour interactive workshop aimed at introducing you to recording, editing and publishing videos in the DIY Recording Booth.

DIY Recording Booth Face to Face Orientation Session 27 November

The orientation is a 1.5-hour interactive workshop aimed at introducing you to recording, editing and publishing videos in the DIY Recording Booth.

Echo360 for Professional Staff

This workshop is for professional staff who use and/or support academic staff with Echo360. You’ll learn about how Echo360 interacts with other Sydney systems like timetabling and SEAMS, understand how to support common use cases, and know how to get help. 

SEAMS for professional staff

This workshop is for professional staff who support academic staff with the Faculty admin role in SEAMS.

SEAMS for professional staff

This workshop is for professional staff who support academic staff with the Faculty admin role in SEAMS.

MPLF M16 - Research and ethics in evidence-based learning and teaching

This 2-hour session is part of Module 16 of the Modular Professional Learning Framework and will be delivered via Zoom.

The aim of this module is to upskill staff in performing 'scholarship of teaching and learning' (SoTL), which involves systematic inquiry into the processes and outcomes of student learning in order to make these public and further improve teaching practices. We will discuss the ins and outs and practical techniques for 'doing research' on your own students and your own learning and teaching, as well as approaches to human ethics approvals..

For full module details visit: M16 - Research and ethics in evidence-based learning and teaching

To find out more about the Modular Professional Learning Framework and to enrol, visit the MPLF Canvas site.

AI and Assessment Seminars - Guiding students' use of AI

This new seminar series invites colleagues to share practices around AI and assessment that are transferable, practical, and authentic. Incorporating useful guidance for students on how to use AI well for their learning and assessment tasks is an important part of implementing the New Assessment Framework and developing AI-literate graduates ready for the future of work. In addition, students and academics alike can benefit from prompting well to get higher quality ouputs from AI. In this session, Tatjana Seizova-Cajic (Faculty of Medicine and Health) will walk us through how to create an AI prompt guide tailored for one’s own teaching context. Attendees will have the opportunity to create their own AI prompt guide for use in their unit of study – just in time for semester 2 assignments!

[ALMOST FULL] SRES for beginners - Getting started with personalisation

The SRES is a system built by academics at the University of Sydney to help other academics personalise student learning and support. This workshop is for new or beginner users of the tool, and will give you guided hands-on experience in setting it up and using it in your unit of study.

Read more about the SRES, or register here.

Demystifying Gen-AI for Educators

Turn AI anxiety to classroom clarity: join our 60-minute tailored workshop where we'll use pre-session polls to focus on what matters to you–bring along your questions and concerns, invite a buddy and leave with practical resources you can use tomorrow. 

[FULLY BOOKED] Introduction to Cogniti - an AI that teachers can steer

Cogniti is a new generative AI tool that lets teachers build custom chatbot agents that can be given specific instructions, and specific resources, to assist student learning in context-sensitive ways. Developed here at the University of Sydney, Cogniti allows you to create steerable and accurate agents powered by generative AI. This workshop will introduce you to Cogniti and how it might help support your teaching and assessments. Through hands-on practice with the platform, you'll easily build a custom AI agent for teaching that can behave how you need it to.

Find out more about Cogniti at https://cogniti.ai/ 

AI workshop lab 2 - AI as a creative assessment partner

Transform one creative assessment in 90 minutes. Learn how AI can enhance debates, performances, and creative projects without losing authenticity for both educators and students.

Echo360 for Professional Staff

This workshop is for professional staff who use and/or support academic staff with Echo360. You’ll learn about how Echo360 interacts with other Sydney systems like timetabling and SEAMS, understand how to support common use cases, and know how to get help. 

SEFP D1 and D2 - Writing for Associate Fellowship and Fellowship PSF 2023

This workshop provides two hours of structured time for applicants submitting for AFHEA or FHEA recognition to work on their written application while asking questions on aspects related to writing, submission or assessment process.

Generative AI workshop lab 3 - Student-centred activity prototyping with AI

In this hands-on design sprint you’ll prototype a short activity where students use AI meaningfully and ethically. Choose your tools, focus, and student input level. Leave this session with the elements of lesson plan that incorporates AI in a student cantered, discipline appropriate way. 

SEFP D3 - Writing for Senior Fellowship PSF 2023

This workshop provides two hours of structured time for applicants submitting for SFHEA recognition to work on their written application while asking questions on aspects related to writing, submission or assessment process.

Generative AI workshop lab 1 - Prompting

Not all prompts are created equal. This lab demystifies prompting by blending tool knowledge with sound pedagogy. Experiment with refining ineffective prompts, applying the RTRI framework and steps to craft dual-purpose prompts for student learning and feedback, and comparing outputs across tools, including Cogniti.

Introduction to Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Join us for a 70-minute workshop (with additional 20 minutes Q&A) where we explore the CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework.

[FULLY BOOKED] Introduction to Cogniti - an AI that teachers can steer

Cogniti is a new generative AI tool that lets teachers build custom chatbot agents that can be given specific instructions, and specific resources, to assist student learning in context-sensitive ways. Developed here at the University of Sydney, Cogniti allows you to create steerable and accurate agents powered by generative AI. This workshop will introduce you to Cogniti and how it might help support your teaching and assessments. Through hands-on practice with the platform, you'll easily build a custom AI agent for teaching that can behave how you need it to.

Find out more about Cogniti at https://cogniti.ai/ 

MPLF M17 - Designers' Community of Practice - Connections

Designers' Community of Practice - Connections is a community of practice for educational designers, educational support officers, and anyone interested in advancing learning design at the University. 

In this two-hour session, colleagues from across the University (please click through for more about our speakers) showcase their recent projects.

AI and Assessment Seminars - Structured groupwork

This new seminar series invites colleagues to share practices around AI and assessment that are transferable, practical, and authentic. Educators know that attendance alone does not guarantee engagement in class, nor learning of course material. However, in this session, we will hear Natalie Silver (Sydney Law School) describe how she successfully uses structured groupwork to guide and support student engagement with class material, develop leadership skills and capabilities in her students, and how she uses this structured groupwork as an authentic assessable task for individual students in her course.

SEFP D1 and D2 - Writing for Associate Fellowship and Fellowship PSF 2023

This workshop provides two hours of structured time for applicants submitting for AFHEA or FHEA recognition to work on their written application while asking questions on aspects related to writing, submission or assessment process.

Demystifying Gen-AI for Educators

Turn AI anxiety to classroom clarity: join our 60-minute tailored workshop where we'll use pre-session polls to focus on what matters to you–bring along your questions and concerns, invite a buddy and leave with practical resources you can use tomorrow. 

SEFP D3 - Writing for Senior Fellowship PSF 2023

This workshop provides two hours of structured time for applicants submitting for SFHEA recognition to work on their written application while asking questions on aspects related to writing, submission or assessment process.

Introduction to Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Join us for a 70-minute workshop (with additional 20 minutes Q&A) where we explore the CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework.

Designing for Diversity

Join us for a 120 minute workshop where we explore how to enhance inclusivity in the classroom and lower barriers in the learning environment for students by drawing on the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). This workshop will be an opportunity to understand the designing for diversity mindset and brainstorm ideas for your learning environment.

Generative AI workshop lab 1 - Prompting

Not all prompts are created equal. This lab demystifies prompting by blending tool knowledge with sound pedagogy. Experiment with refining ineffective prompts, applying the RTRI framework and steps to craft dual-purpose prompts for student learning and feedback, and comparing outputs across tools, including Cogniti.

AI workshop lab 2 - AI as a creative assessment partner

Transform one creative assessment in 90 minutes. Learn how AI can enhance debates, performances, and creative projects without losing authenticity for both educators and students.

Designing for Diversity

Join us for a 120 minute workshop where we explore how to enhance inclusivity in the classroom and lower barriers in the learning environment for students by drawing on the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). This workshop will be an opportunity to understand the designing for diversity mindset and brainstorm ideas for your learning environment.

Cogniti masterclass

In this masterclass for experienced users of Cogniti, we'll take a deep dive into ways to build better agents and share with each other our discoveries and tips. There will also be time for a live clinic where we can review and improve your agent together.

Find out more about Cogniti at https://cogniti.ai/ 

DIY Recording Booth Face to Face Orientation Session 23 September

The orientation is a 1.5-hour interactive workshop aimed at introducing you to recording, editing and publishing videos in the DIY Recording Booth.

SEAMS for professional staff

This workshop is for professional staff who support academic staff with the Faculty admin role in SEAMS.

Generative AI workshop lab 1 - Prompting

Not all prompts are created equal. This lab demystifies prompting by blending tool knowledge with sound pedagogy. Experiment with refining ineffective prompts, applying the RTRI framework and steps to craft dual-purpose prompts for student learning and feedback, and comparing outputs across tools, including Cogniti.

Introduction to Cogniti - an AI that teachers can steer

Cogniti is a new generative AI tool that lets teachers build custom chatbot agents that can be given specific instructions, and specific resources, to assist student learning in context-sensitive ways. Developed here at the University of Sydney, Cogniti allows you to create steerable and accurate agents powered by generative AI. This workshop will introduce you to Cogniti and how it might help support your teaching and assessments. Through hands-on practice with the platform, you'll easily build a custom AI agent for teaching that can behave how you need it to.

Find out more about Cogniti at https://cogniti.ai/ 

DIY Recording Booth Face to Face Orientation Session 25 September

The orientation is a 1.5-hour interactive workshop aimed at introducing you to recording, editing and publishing videos in the DIY Recording Booth.

AI workshop lab 2 - AI as a creative assessment partner

Transform one creative assessment in 90 minutes. Learn how AI can enhance debates, performances, and creative projects without losing authenticity for both educators and students.

AI and Assessment Seminars - Essays in the era of LLMs

This new seminar series invites colleagues to share practices around AI and assessment that are transferable, practical, and authentic.

In the age of GenAI, you may be worrying or simply wondering, how can I help my students still learn to write in the age of AI? A topic is relevant university-wide to anyone who asks students to write in their submitted assessment tasks, in this seminar, A/Prof Huw Griffiths from the Discipline of English and Writing, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, will guide us to discover possible futures for student writing. As well as an introduction to key issues, we will canvass practical strategies.

SEAMS for professional staff

This workshop is for professional staff who support academic staff with the Faculty admin role in SEAMS.

Introduction to Cogniti - an AI that teachers can steer

Cogniti is a new generative AI tool that lets teachers build custom chatbot agents that can be given specific instructions, and specific resources, to assist student learning in context-sensitive ways. Developed here at the University of Sydney, Cogniti allows you to create steerable and accurate agents powered by generative AI. This workshop will introduce you to Cogniti and how it might help support your teaching and assessments. Through hands-on practice with the platform, you'll easily build a custom AI agent for teaching that can behave how you need it to.

Find out more about Cogniti at https://cogniti.ai/ 

Cogniti masterclass

In this masterclass for experienced users of Cogniti, we'll take a deep dive into ways to build better agents and share with each other our discoveries and tips. There will also be time for a live clinic where we can review and improve your agent together.

Find out more about Cogniti at https://cogniti.ai/ 

Introduction to Cogniti - an AI that teachers can steer

Cogniti is a new generative AI tool that lets teachers build custom chatbot agents that can be given specific instructions, and specific resources, to assist student learning in context-sensitive ways. Developed here at the University of Sydney, Cogniti allows you to create steerable and accurate agents powered by generative AI. This workshop will introduce you to Cogniti and how it might help support your teaching and assessments. Through hands-on practice with the platform, you'll easily build a custom AI agent for teaching that can behave how you need it to.

Find out more about Cogniti at https://cogniti.ai/ 

MPLF M17 - Designers' Community of Practice - Connections

Designers' Community of Practice - Connections is a community of practice for educational designers, educational support officers, and anyone interested in advancing learning design at the University. 

In this two-hour session, colleagues from across the University (please click through for more about our speakers) showcase their recent projects.

DIY Recording Booth Face to Face Orientation Session 25 Novemeber

The orientation is a 1.5-hour interactive workshop aimed at introducing you to recording, editing and publishing videos in the DIY Recording Booth.

DIY Recording Booth Face to Face Orientation Session 27 November

The orientation is a 1.5-hour interactive workshop aimed at introducing you to recording, editing and publishing videos in the DIY Recording Booth.

Introduction to Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Join us for a 70-minute workshop (with additional 20 minutes Q&A) where we explore the CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework.

Introduction to Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Join us for a 70-minute workshop (with additional 20 minutes Q&A) where we explore the CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework.