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:…
Educational excellence
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…
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…
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…
2018 Strategic Education Grants: workshop for applicants
byThe Strategic Education Grants program is a competitive scheme to fund educational innovation and targeted curriculum development to deliver enhanced student learning outcomes across the University. The…
In defence of small teaching
byUniversities can often feel like places of endless optimisation, where grants, research papers, strategic documents and promotions applications, make the case for how much…
Learning analytics to improve referencing – call for collaborators
byThe Library has put together a teaching and outreach initiative to provide personalised feedback and learning activities to students having difficulties with referencing in…