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…
Faculty
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…
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…
Enhancing your Canvas designs: Using flexboxes, pad boxes and Feedwind to enhance your Canvas sites
byOver the past few months, I have used the University’s new learning management system, Canvas, to build several sites. These include an OLE, a…
Coming Soon: An Institution-Wide Curriculum Mapping System and Unit Outline Template
byFor the first time, the University will have an enterprise curriculum mapping software system across the institution, along with a new unit of study…
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…
Inclusive Culture in Our Teaching: Universal Design in Canvas Event
byProviding high quality education is a matter of social justice, and ‘Universal Design for Learning’ (UDL) is an innovative framework that supports all learners…
Innovative uses of discussion boards for collaboration and community engagement
byOnline discussion boards, whether those that come as part of Blackboard/Canvas or come from an external provider, are a great way to engage your…