On the wire – highlights from across the web
The month’s highlights on higher education from across the web 1.My university forced me into teaching training It was all dry ‘eduspeak’ This month…
When intuition is not enough
In this extended piece for Teaching@Sydney, Jessica Frawley makes the case for scholarly approaches to teaching and learning. This month The Guardian’s Academics Anonymous (higher ed’s go-to…
On the wire – highlights from across the web
The month’s highlights on higher education from across the web 1. 2018 NMC Horizon Report The New Media Consortium has become synonymous with its…
On the wire – highlights from across the web
The month’s highlights on higher-ed from across the web 1. How to Prepare for Class Without Overpreparing If you have ever had the experience…
Writing Workshops for 2018 HEA Fellows
What is the Sydney Educational Fellowship Program? In 2018 the University of Sydney became an accredited partner of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), allowing…
Connecting the dots in the new curriculum
Curriculum is ambitious business. In designing it, we make a claim about what we ought to teach, and what our students ought to learn….
Teaching Leadership as Design – November Events
This November we are spoilt for choice with some wonderful events hosted by the Centre for Research on Learning and Innovation (CRLI). On the 14th November Bill…
Quiet tools for transformation
In terms of new technologies, the arrival of a new enterprise system is not typically of the kind that gets our cheeks flushed and…
Surviving EdTech’s spin cycle without losing your mind.
From the early mechanical teaching machines of Sidney Pressey (1926) and B. F. Skinner (1953) through to the current spate of apps, games, VR…
(Don’t) Make Me Think
During the year 2000, in the height of the dot-com bubble, Steve Krug’s slim and conversational book Don’t Make Me Think burst onto the scene. Neither the first nor the…