Innovation at the core of the vision for education in the Strategic Plan
byThe 2016–20 Strategic Plan sets out a vision for a distinctive Sydney education. Alongside a renewal of what students learn is a focus on how they…
April, 2016
Tools for flipping your class #2: response systems for polling, formative assessment and feedback
byFlipping the class by encouraging students to prepare before a lecture, perhaps by providing short videos, helps build engagement and attendance. It also ensures that they are ready to be…
Uncertainty around the future of the OLT
bySince the establishment of the Office for Learning and Teaching in 2012 Australian universities have benefitted from its awards, grants and fellowship programs and…
OLT Teaching Excellence and Program Awards 2016l
byThe OLT Teaching Excellence and Program Awards are highly prestigious and provide recognition of significant achievements in teaching at a national level. The University…
Accessible teaching resources: using common authoring tools
byIt has been estimated that the human brain takes in around 34 gigabytes of data each day. For our students, much of this will…
Personalising learning support using the SRES
byDo you want to be able to contact and support individual students based on their performance and engagement but find it difficult in your…
Assessment and professional judgement – 53 Powerful Ideas All Teachers Should Know About
byGraham Gibbs revisits the notion that objective assessment is likely to be near impossible. In Idea 43: Most assessment involves (unreliable) professional judgement and…
Small changes in teaching: the first 5 minutes of class
byIn a series of articles in The Chronicle from his book “Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning”, James M. Lang presents simple and…