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Alessandra Wollaston

Alessandra Wollaston

Educational Designer, Educational Innovation, Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education)

Learning spaces, Teaching tips 9 December, 2024 11 December, 2024

Space, sound, breath, and body – using your voice

Most of the time, when talking about ‘voice’ in the context of education, it’s an abstract thing—the student voice, the minority voice, the voice…

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Close up of little blackboard with green chalk saying 'Welcome to create space', with a 3d printed yellow octopus and orange Shakespeare near it, on a table with computers, and happy clutter
Assessment, Everyday innovation, Graduate qualities 14 October, 2024 23 October, 2024

Everyday innovation in assessment

The emergence and acceleration of generative AI necessitates reflection on what’s valuable for students to learn, and how this learning can be assessed. The…

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Be human, Everyday innovation, Foster a sense of belonging and community, Student experience 24 June, 2024 14 October, 2024

Everyday innovation with tech tools

The rapid development of generative AI and all its amazing possibilities is quite rightly drawing a lot of attention as people in all industries and fields…

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Be human, Everyday innovation, Foster a sense of belonging and community, Student experience 21 May, 2024 14 October, 2024

Everyday innovation in group work

Group work can be a polarising feature of teaching and learning. Done well, it provides a unique and multidimensional learning experience which goes beyond…

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shot of an old fashioned city arcade featuring a seamstress' window with spools of coloured thread and a sign saying 'Alterations studio'
Be human, Everyday innovation, Foster a sense of belonging and community, Student experience 28 February, 2024 14 October, 2024

Everyday innovation in tutorials

The ideas featured in this inaugural everyday innovation selection have been enacted in the tutorial space. Tutors are an influential part of students’ experiences…

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Portrait of (left to right) Alessandra, Joanne and Alix, on Eastern Avenue on the Camperdown campus, in the afternoon light
Educational excellence, Student experience 17 July, 2023 19 September, 2023

Taking chances – investing in innovative education at Sydney

Prof Joanne Wright, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education) joined the University a year ago as a champion of innovation in education. Innovation is a key feature…

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Be human, Build teacher-student relationships 28 April, 2023 28 April, 2023

Making friends with failing

It can be tempting to think that success looks like things working smoothly and going to plan. It can even be tempting to peg…

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a mind map style storyboard for the unit
Educational excellence, Student experience 14 October, 2022 17 October, 2022

Storyboarding for a successful intensive in FASS3999

In 2021 I had the fun challenge of coordinating the FASS3999 Interdisciplinary Impact December intensive. Storyboarding enabled me to address a number of existing…

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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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Educational excellence, Foster a sense of belonging and community, Teaching tips 25 July, 2022 25 July, 2022

Getting it together – setting up group work for success

I am a huge fan of collaboration – as a set of skills, and a process, it’s one of the best ways to generate…

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