From educational innovation grant to national tour
byAn inter-faculty group of eight University of Sydney academics, as the Sydney Arts and Health Collective, had been working together since 2016 to find…
Medicine and Health
Love learning – a colloquium on interactive lecture sessions
byIn this Colloquium, participants in the 2018 Peer Observation and Review of Teaching (PORT) program from The University of Sydney’s Faculty of Science and…
Making Sense of Feedback in Public Health Assessments
byThe importance of feedback in higher education is already well established. This is even more so the case given the move towards more student-centred…
The use of technology for assessment in public health
byTechnology has dramatically changed the way we teach in universities. We increasingly see laptops, mobile phones, or tablets in classrooms, and bigger changes are…
Sydney Open Textbooks
byAre you passionate about open access and making education more affordable for your students? Would you like to publish an open textbook for your…
Peer Observation and Review of Teaching (PORT) Colloquium
byReviving the ‘lecture’ – resuscitation toolkit In this colloquium, participants in the 2017 Peer Observation and Review of Teaching (PORT) program from The University…
Standards-based assessments for public health education: Use of rubrics and exemplars
byThe current University of Sydney Assessment Procedures has highlighted the need and requirements to apply standards-based assessments to our teaching. It explains what standards-based…
Designing Effective Educational Videos
byWhen it comes down to it, as an educational designer I am concerned with the creation of meaningful teaching resources guided by the theory…
Designing assessment tasks for public health teaching – Constructive alignment with learning outcomes and graduate qualities
byDesigning assessment tasks is probably the greatest challenge in curriculum development. Based on Professor David Boud’s criteria proposed in the 1990s, which are still…
Exploring assessment for public health in higher education
byPublic health, as defined by the Encyclopedia of Public Health, is ‘the field of medicine and hygiene dealing with the prevention of disease and…