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…
Why design matters when keeping students’ attention online
Web and interaction design has had a long history of making difficult and complicated systems usable. When tech is easy we use words like ‘intuitive’,…
In defence of small teaching
Universities can often feel like places of endless optimisation, where grants, research papers, strategic documents and promotions applications, make the case for how much…
Graduate qualities – what are they and why are they important?
Throughout higher education there has been a lot of talk about graduate qualities – sometimes referred to as graduate attributes. Graduate qualities are usually defined…
(Re)designing your unit of study – learning outcomes and constructive alignment
Whether you are designing from scratch, or revising an existing course or subject, a few key principles can help steer you in the right…