Facing challenges positively – using framing interventions in your class
What are framing interventions? In Tinto’s important article from 1975, anxiety and self efficacy were identified as two of the key barriers to students developing…
Scaling up use of SRES in semester 2, 2020
The ‘Student Relationship and Engagement System’ (SRES) was developed by teachers at Sydney to help other teachers personalise engagement with large student cohorts. By…
Design for online – opportunities to enrich your students’ education for semester 2 and beyond
Preparing for semester 2 2020 has certainly been a very challenging year so far, but it seems likely that there will be a slow…
Lectures in the time of COVID-19 – synchronous or asynchronous?
Although March 2020 seems to have been going on for about 45 years, we’ve actually only been teaching remotely for just over 2 weeks!…
Learning while off campus
We are living in very challenging times. For our students, the move to studying remotely for the next few months is certainly a big…
Teaching when you’re off campus yourself
Principles for teaching in the time of COVID-19 As the University moves to offering a totally off-campus experience for students and staff, the following…
ASCILITE 2019 highlights: Playful Learning
ASCILITE 2019 was held at the Singapore University of Social Sciences at the end of 2019. The theme of the conference was ‘Personalised Learning….
Gamifying academic integrity
The topic of academic integrity is not always a particularly interesting or easy thing to get students to think about. Recently the School of…
The Opening Learning Environment: 18 months on
It’s now over 18 months since the Open Learning Environment (OLE) was officially opened as a key and innovative feature of the reimagined Sydney educational experience….
Making relationship-rich experiences the heart of higher education
Students crave personal connections with their teachers and with each other. Even with shifts to more online and blended delivery of content, it is…