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Danny Liu

Danny Liu

Danny is an associate professor in the Educational Innovation team and an Honorary Associate in the Faculty of Science. A molecular biologist by training, programmer by night, researcher and academic developer by day, and educator at heart, Danny has coordinated, taught, mentored staff in, and redeveloped a number of large units, and has won a few national awards for this. Danny is passionate about student engagement, infusing technology in learning & teaching, the first year experience, learning analytics, and really anything where students are the focus.

News & events, Sydney updates 28 April, 2017 22 January, 2018

DIY Recording Booth now open for all staff

A new do-it-yourself recording booth is now available for any University of Sydney staff member to book and use to record high-quality educational videos….

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First Year Coordinators, LMS transformation, Teaching tips 26 April, 2017 1 May, 2017

Thinking in Canvas

As we move to Canvas as the University-wide learning management system (LMS), we have a key opportunity to refresh the designs and functions of our…

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First Year Coordinators, Teaching tips 30 March, 2017 30 March, 2017

Engaging students in pre-work – wisdom from the crowd

Making sure students prepare for class and complete assigned work is a longstanding challenge for all educators. We’ve written on Teaching@Sydney previously about one…

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Medicine and Health, News & events, Teaching tips 16 March, 2017 31 January, 2020

Week 4 // Open… Site? – Sharing innovations in blended learning

Week 4 // Open Door is an event where staff from around the University are invited to attend colleagues’ face-to-face classes so that we…

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Educational excellence, News & events 16 March, 2017 12 April, 2017

Week 4 // Open Door is back!

The week-long event last year that had staff around the University asking for more is back this semester. Loved it. Should be more! I…

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First Year Coordinators, Teaching tips 27 February, 2017 5 March, 2017

Knowing Your Students – deep insight into your cohort

As we meet the many smiling faces in the first few classes of semester, we are often left wondering, who are our students exactly?…

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First Year Coordinators, Teaching tips 23 February, 2017 18 March, 2017

Six quick and impactful changes you can do today on your Blackboard site

As we gear up for week 1, tens of thousands of students across the University will be logging into their Blackboard sites for the first…

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Teaching tips 28 January, 2017 17 March, 2017

Bringing the world into your lecture – lessons we learnt from observing other lecturers

In week 4 semester 2 last year, lecturers across the University opened their classroom doors and invited colleagues to sit in and observe how…

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News & events, Teaching tips 25 January, 2017 28 January, 2017

Personalising learning support in large units using the SRES

Imagine sitting in a large lecture theatre with 400 other students, your lecturer at the front of the room not knowing who you are,…

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Educational excellence, Teaching tips 28 November, 2016 29 November, 2016

Let your students surprise you: Making a unit relevant and engaging

First year students taking Agricultural Chemistry couldn’t see the relevance of what they were studying, and experienced a lack of cohort identity. How did Dr…

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