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…
Educational excellence
Writing Workshops for 2018 HEA Fellows
byWhat is the Sydney Educational Fellowship Program? In 2018 the University of Sydney became an accredited partner of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), allowing…
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…
Open Canvas Sites – 2018 edition
byAs the University started to explore Canvas in semester 2, 2017, almost 100 unit coordinators designed their sites in Canvas for the first time,…
Open Door Week – now in week 8!
byThe Week 4 // Open Door initiative over the past three semesters allowed teachers from across the University to openly invite their colleagues to…
Fellowship opportunities with the Higher Education Academy
byFollowing a successful pilot program last year, the University of Sydney has been awarded accreditation by the UK’s Higher Education Academy for two programs:…
Connecting the dots in the new curriculum
byCurriculum is ambitious business. In designing it, we make a claim about what we ought to teach, and what our students ought to learn….
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…
Learning outcomes on the horizon
byIntended learning outcome descriptions present the distilled essence of a period of study in the form of a brief list of abilities that students “will…