Teaching critical self-reflection with help from generative AI
byWe live in a world marked by environmental challenges, social inequities and political uncertainty. These issues are not peripheral to universities; they are central…
Offer meaningful assessment, feedback and academic integrity
Delivering personalised feedback at scale using peer videos
byIn a cohort of large numbers of students, feedback can easily become impersonal. But what if the most powerful feedback didn’t come from us,…
Closing the feedback loop: What we learned when our assessment changes failed
byWhat do you do as an educator when a successful teaching innovation completely backfires with a different student cohort? In a previous Teaching@Sydney article,…
Feedback, fairness and flow: Group work management reimagined with SRES
byAs a new hire through the Sydney Education Horizon pathway, I was excited to be exposed to and amazed by the range of university-developed…
The partnership approach: Integrating AI and human feedback for enhanced learning
byFeedback has long been recognised as a cornerstone of effective learning, enabling students to identify strengths and areas for improvement in their academic work….
How to design custom AIs that can propel learning
byCogniti, a platform that lets educators easily build their own generative AI ‘agents’, offers exciting opportunities to enhance teaching and learning. The key to…
Guide to curriculum mapping: A systematic process for program redesign
byThe introduction of AI has encouraged us to look at our program designs and ensure that we are thoroughly supporting and assessing learning (Cantú-Ortiz…
Simplify communication using AI: Easy Read and Plain English
byUniversity communications can be overwhelming and confusing for students, especially as they contain unfamiliar or very technical language. So, we built a custom AI…
The 6R’s of using GenAI: How generative AI tools are shaping my engineering classrooms and beyond
byI’ve been teaching engineering courses for quite a while now, and it goes without saying that generative AI (Gen AI) tools have had a…
AI as a research and feedback assistant in essay plans and annotated bibliographies
byWhen ChatGPT first landed, this seemed particularly bad news for people, like myself, who are based in a discipline that is very writing-intensive and…