Tort law ‘on the go’: using podcasts to cover key cases
byPrimary materials for teaching tort law are case law and statutes. This year, Dr Gemma Turton experimented with using podcasts in LAWS5001 Torts, to…
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2022 Business School Learning and Teaching Forum – 28 September 2022
byThe University of Sydney Business School would like to invite you to our 2022 Learning & Teaching Forum where colleagues from across the Business School and beyond…
Being human together – insights from students and teachers at the 2022 Sydney Teaching Symposium roundtable
byIt’s the middle of 2022 and we’ve had two and a half very strange years at Sydney. Two and a half years of figuring…
It’s your time: A vision for education at Sydney
byOur new Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education) Professor Joanne Wright welcomed people to the recent 2022 Sydney Teaching Symposium and spoke about how we can…
Relationships are not enough: What it takes for students to belong
byFor a long time, I’ve been waxing lyrical about the importance of relationships in higher education, particularly the relationships that teachers form with students,…
Getting it together – setting up group work for success
byI am a huge fan of collaboration – as a set of skills, and a process, it’s one of the best ways to generate…
‘If we want student engagement, we need to engage academic staff first’: teaching in a changing online environment.
byDr Simon Kwok holds a PhD from Cornell University and specialises in time series econometrics and finance: ‘essentially a study of how observations align…
Research and reflections on being a ‘good’ teacher
byThe Sydney Law School hosts several legal education seminars each year, and theme for 2022 is Award Winning Teachers. In April, the series was…
Engaging students in Law with active learning
byTraditionally, law lectures are generally didactic in nature, with limited student participation or interaction, which is usually reserved for weekly tutorial classes. However, in…
Assessment and integrity in the age of essay-writing artificial intelligence
byContract cheating, particularly ghostwriting, is a growing challenge for higher education teachers and students. There are a few reasons for this. The internet has…