Teaching@Sydney
The 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…
One of the best improvements in building content in Canvas, as compared to Blackboard, is the ability to quickly and easily link to other…
In terms of new technologies, the arrival of a new enterprise system is not typically of the kind that gets our cheeks flushed and…
Commonly held beliefs about multiple choice questions and other question types that can be marked by a computer are that they can only really…
There are two Widening Participation Network seminars coming up on 12 and 13 October 2017. Indigenous students’ experiences of higher education: rippling stories of…
Over the past few months, I have used the University’s new learning management system, Canvas, to build several sites. These include an OLE, a…
For the first time, the University will have an enterprise curriculum mapping software system across the institution, along with a new unit of study…
From the early mechanical teaching machines of Sidney Pressey (1926) and B. F. Skinner (1953) through to the current spate of apps, games, VR…
We often assume our students are “digital natives” and are familiar with the social conventions of online discussion – but this is not necessarily…
When it comes down to it, as an educational designer I am concerned with the creation of meaningful teaching resources guided by the theory…