Thinking in Canvas: Arc turns videos into two-way learning experiences
byHow do you get the most out of videos in teaching? Arc is a new video platform that will allow you to do so…
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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…
EdTool Tips #10: Canvas inaugURL Short Guide to Linking Content
byOne of the best improvements in building content in Canvas, as compared to Blackboard, is the ability to quickly and easily link to other…
Quiet tools for transformation
byIn terms of new technologies, the arrival of a new enterprise system is not typically of the kind that gets our cheeks flushed and…
How2MCQ – Tips for efficiently writing meaningful automarkable questions
byCommonly held beliefs about multiple choice questions and other question types that can be marked by a computer are that they can only really…
Upcoming seminars on Indigenous, Maori and Pasifika students’ experiences of higher education
byThere are two Widening Participation Network seminars coming up on 12 and 13 October 2017. Indigenous students’ experiences of higher education: rippling stories of…
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…