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Ruth Weeks

Ruth Weeks

News & events, Student experience, Teaching tips, Transition 8 February, 2021 8 February, 2021

Welcoming students to Sydney

Starting university can be an exciting but stressful time. The University of Sydney is a very large institution with a wide range of disciplines…

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First Year Coordinators, News & events, Student experience, Transition 16 September, 2020 21 September, 2020

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…

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News & events, Student experience 28 May, 2020 28 May, 2020

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…

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Educational excellence, News & events, Off-campus learning, Student experience 26 May, 2020 30 July, 2020

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…

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Off-campus learning, Teaching tips 2 April, 2020 8 April, 2020

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!…

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News & events, Off-campus learning 22 March, 2020 22 March, 2020

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…

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News & events, Off-campus learning 22 March, 2020 22 March, 2020

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…

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News & events, Teaching research, Teaching tips 31 January, 2020 31 January, 2020

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….

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Educational excellence, News & events, Student experience, Transition 12 October, 2019 31 January, 2020

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…

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News & events, Sydney updates 1 September, 2019 3 September, 2019

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….

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