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…
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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…
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…