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Alix Thoeming

Alix Thoeming

Educational Design Manager at Educational Innovation, Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education)

First Year Coordinators, Inclusive teaching, Medicine and Health, Student experience 16 September, 2022 24 September, 2022

Pharmacy Students Working with Museum Collections and Artefacts – A Case for Object-Based Learning

For an incoming first-year pharmacy student, understanding how their chosen profession has evolved and developed over time will enable a better appreciation and connection…

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Be human, Build teacher-student relationships, Core pedagogical principles, Foster a sense of belonging and community, Inclusive teaching, News & events, Off-campus learning, Student experience, Teaching tips 26 July, 2022 26 July, 2022

Being human together – insights from students and teachers at the 2022 Sydney Teaching Symposium roundtable

It’s the middle of 2022 and we’ve had two and a half very strange years at Sydney. Two and a half years of figuring…

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Socially diverse multicultural and multiracial people on an isolated white background. Happy old and young women and men with children, as well as people with disabilities standing together.
Be human, Build teacher-student relationships, Core pedagogical principles, Foster a sense of belonging and community, Inclusive teaching 31 January, 2022 1 February, 2022

A shared sense of place – empowering culturally responsive teaching

What is culturally responsive teaching? To be a culturally responsive teacher is to be “able to understand and consider the different cultural backgrounds of the people (we) teach“. The University of Sydney is an…

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News & events, Sydney updates 30 January, 2022 31 January, 2022

Important Canvas updates for semester 1 2022

Canvas has been updated with new features for 2022 including anonymous posting on discussion boards, the ability to add and/or request your pronouns to…

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Arts and Social Sciences, Core pedagogical principles, First Year Coordinators, Have clear communications and expectations, Teaching tips 24 November, 2021 24 November, 2021

Online Communication: Scale, Scope and Simplicity in FASS1000

2021 brought with it further challenges to teaching and new opportunities to reflect and learn. Centred on the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences…

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Assessment, Medicine and Health, Teaching tips, Use engaging approaches to content delivery 22 July, 2021 22 July, 2021

Pharmacists’ Ways of Thinking and Ways of Doing through Object Based Learning

I found teaching inspiration for pharmacy education in the most unexpected place – Ancient Greece.  It all started with a digital collection of artefacts…

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Be human, Build teacher-student relationships, Off-campus learning, Student experience, Teaching tips 16 July, 2021 17 July, 2021

To See, or Not To See? Who Decides The Answer?

The rapid transition to online teaching due to COVID-19 both in Australia and abroad has left us all in a strange new world. One…

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Arts and Social Sciences, First Year Coordinators, News & events, Teaching tips 9 July, 2021 16 July, 2021

Learning from the best: A case for intra-unit peer observation

Peer observation is terrifying. There, I said it. Many of us tertiary teachers walk into our first class with naught but a half-day orientation…

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First Year Coordinators, Measure and support engagement, Offer meaningful assessment, feedback and academic integrity, Student experience, Sydney updates, Teaching research, Teaching tips, Transition 5 February, 2021 17 July, 2021

Supporting students through HELP funding changes

Since the end of the free tertiary education reforms introduced by the Whitlam government, most domestic students have seen their time at university supported…

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Off-campus learning, Teaching tips 30 October, 2020 30 October, 2020

Helping students prepare for proctored final exams

Those of us who assess with exams have seen remote online proctoring become a big part of our lives in 2020. Exams are stressful…

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