Engaging students in pre-work – wisdom from the crowd
byMaking sure students prepare for class and complete assigned work is a longstanding challenge for all educators. We’ve written on Teaching@Sydney previously about one…
First Year Coordinators
Tutorial teaching for the first time: some advice for preparation
byWith the beginning of semester 1 looming, many higher degree research candidates will be preparing to tutor for the first time. This is likely…
The myth of the ‘digital native’
byIn 2001, Marc Prensky’s paper ‘Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants’ burst onto the education scene with a metaphor that managed to putinto words what a…
Knowing Your Students – deep insight into your cohort
byAs we meet the many smiling faces in the first few classes of semester, we are often left wondering, who are our students exactly?…
Cultural Competence within Introduction to Geology (GEOS1003)
byBy Gulnaz Beg (student ambassador), with Tom Hubble. We participated in the 2016 ‘Students as Partners for Cultural Competence’ project, designed as collaboration between…
Six quick and impactful changes you can do today on your Blackboard site
byAs we gear up forweek 1, tens of thousands of students across the University will be logging into their Blackboard sites for the first…
Enhancing cultural competence for project management students
byByRoman Eymont, with Dr Ehssan Sakhaee The cultural competence student ambassador role that I undertook in conjunction with Dr Ehssan Sakhaee in 2016 was…
Ensuring your teaching resources are accessible to the widest possible audience
byThe April issue of Teaching@Sydney outlined some simple ways in whichtools such as Word or Powerpointcan be usedto ensure that teaching resources areaccessible to…
Accessible teaching resources: using common authoring tools
byIt has been estimated that the human brain takes in around 34 gigabytes of data each day. For our students, much of this will…