Learning to learn after lockdown: the transition journey from alpha to omega
Transition is key to developing a sense of belonging which is itself strongly associated with retention, student satisfaction and achievement. At Sydney, even in…
Transition is key to developing a sense of belonging which is itself strongly associated with retention, student satisfaction and achievement. At Sydney, even in…
What will ‘normal’ teaching look like in 2022 and beyond? The challenge of balancing teaching for students who are either in Sydney or overseas…
In designing the effective learning and teaching approaches that will emerge from the ‘experiential classroom’ of the pandemic, it is sensible and logical to…
Being able to reference correctly is often taken to be a fundamental academic competency and core to the values of academic scholarship. In assessments…
There are many definitions of what active learning is. One of the simplest comes from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) in North…
The oral exam, sometimes referred to as a “viva voce” or just “viva”, is most commonly associated with the formal defence of a PhD…
Most units in semester 1 will be taught through a mixture of in-person and remote options, enabling great flexibility in teaching modes to meet the…
For this year’s first year students, classes started on 24th February. Those affected by the travel ban were studying remotely from day 1. The…
Many of us have been teaching and working remotely since mid-March. It seems longer. Much longer. For the most part, we’ve mastered using the…
It is clear that we will continue to have students who are unable to travel to campus in 2021. Some units of study have…