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Learning to learn after lockdown: the transition journey from alpha to omega
byTransition is key to developing a sense of belonging which is itself strongly associated with retention, student satisfaction and achievement. At Sydney, even in…
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Head, heart and hands: reflections on a new unit on Disability and Decolonising Practices
byEmbedding equity and inclusivity into the curriculum can be challenging. Amani Bell from Work Integrated Learning in the Sydney School of Health Sciences (SSHS) recently had…
Assessment in first year – what the evidence tells us
byTransition to university in 2022 Throughout 2020 and much of 2021, students will have had variable school experiences, with fewer opportunities to learn study skills,…
Encouraging collaborative learning
byWhat is collaborative learning? Recently, a fantastic new resource for staff has been launched on the hows and whys of using collaborative learning with…
Embedding Universal Design for Learning in an online course and creation of a faculty resource
byUniversal Design for Learning (UDL) is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. UDL was developed…
Learning to learn after lockdown: the transition journey from alpha to omega
byTransition is key to developing a sense of belonging which is itself strongly associated with retention, student satisfaction and achievement. At Sydney, even in…
Bringing online learning to life: Students find inspiration and peer engagement across borders
bySupporting learning success through peer and community connections: The Australian Consul-General in Guangzhou was recently guest of honour at a special University of Sydney…
Digital Object-Based Learning PD workshops
byThe Chau Chak Wing Museum’s Academic Engagement Program invites you to a professional development workshop on Digital Object-Based Learning (OBL) skills. Join us for…
Business School’s Learning and Teaching Forum 2021
byThe L&T Forum committee would like to invite you to the Learning & Teaching Forum 2021 where colleagues from across the Business School will…
Authentic online assessment: strategy, innovation and management
byRecent years have seen an increased emphasis on authentic assessments in business courses, designed to mirror the real-world tasks that graduates face in the…
Principles guiding education at Sydney
byWhat will ‘normal’ teaching look like in 2022 and beyond? The challenge of balancing teaching for students who are either in Sydney or overseas…
New program to connect students with support and their peers
byvSydney Study Connect launches with over 1000 students in first week vSydney Study Connect is an online program connecting students from the same faculties…
Learning on and off campus in the new normal – key insights from Sydney students
byA few weeks ago during the 2021 Sydney Teaching Symposium, students from a range of faculties, backgrounds, and year levels spoke about their own…
How to better ‘feel the room’ when remote teaching
byWith Sydney facing an extended and uncertain lockdown, we find ourselves again starting the semester with remote teaching, facing a wall of black boxes,…
Recipe for student success – the key ingredients for achievement
byIn designing the effective learning and teaching approaches that will emerge from the ‘experiential classroom’ of the pandemic, it is sensible and logical to…
Referencing in first year – what’s the point?
byBeing able to reference correctly is often taken to be a fundamental academic competency and core to the values of academic scholarship. In assessments…
Pharmacists’ Ways of Thinking and Ways of Doing through Object Based Learning
byI found teaching inspiration for pharmacy education in the most unexpected place – Ancient Greece. It all started with a digital collection of artefacts…
Working it out for themselves: the effect of active learning on student outcomes
byThere are many definitions of what active learning is. One of the simplest comes from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) in North…
To See, or Not To See? Who Decides The Answer?
byThe rapid transition to online teaching due to COVID-19 both in Australia and abroad has left us all in a strange new world. One…
The power of feedforward
byIn Semester 1, 2020, I coordinated the postgraduate research capstone unit in the Master of Economics (MEc) program – Economics Research Project (ECON7030). The…
Smart Responses to Communicating Health Messages: Developing a podcast assessment in first year of nursing studies
byPopulation Health Population Health is a first-year unit for pre-registration nursing students that takes a broad perspective of health and focuses students on the…
Learning from the best: A case for intra-unit peer observation
byPeer observation is terrifying. There, I said it. Many of us tertiary teachers walk into our first class with naught but a half-day orientation…
With living voice: the power of oral examinations
byThe oral exam, sometimes referred to as a “viva voce” or just “viva”, is most commonly associated with the formal defence of a PhD…
Zooming in on the mind’s ear: Aural Perception exams in a pandemic
byLate one Tuesday afternoon in March 2020, I was at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music busily preparing handouts for the following morning’s solfège tutorials….
Supporting Online Group Work
byWith constructivism as its theoretical underpinning, group work relies upon social interactions to enhance learning by building connections between existing and new ideas or…