The Abercrombie Sandpit: Tracing connections between the designed environment and learning activity
byThe Abercrombie Sandpit is a new learning space in the Abercrombie Building. We like to think of it as a ‘living, learning laboratory’ where…
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Digital Writing and the English Classroom
byIn a 2015 report, the Foundation for Young Australians highlighted the importance of enterprise skills, including digital literacy and critical thinking, for navigating a…
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…
How interactive teaching can work: A response to Dirk Moses
byIn this extended piece for Teaching@Sydney, Julia Kindt, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History in the Faculty of Arts and…
Improving feedback on written assignments in a large economics unit
byGood writing skills are a key job market attribute of university graduates. However, most junior units of study in economics do not provide writing…
‘I know that this is what you want me to learn’: More Tips for Friendly Canvas Courses
byOver the past fortnight, the FASS Teaching and Technology Innovation Team ran two feedback workshops with a dozen students testing new Canvas sites for…
Students’ Top Tips for Friendly Canvas Courses
byEarlier this month the FASS Teaching and Technology Innovation Team spent a few hours with a dozen students testing a suite of new Canvas…
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…
Flipping in the Classroom: Evaluating an Experiment in the Humanities
byIn this extended article for Teaching@Sydney, Dirk Moses, Professor of Modern History in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, explores the hype, hopes and realities…