Personalising learning support using the SRES
byDo you want to be able to contact and support individual students based on their performance and engagement but find it difficult in your…
Do you want to be able to contact and support individual students based on their performance and engagement but find it difficult in your…
Graham Gibbs revisits the notion that objective assessment is likely to be near impossible. In Idea 43: Most assessment involves (unreliable) professional judgement and…
In a series of articles in The Chronicle from his book “Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning”, James M. Lang presents simple and…
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The flipped classroom makes the best use of both preparation and in-class time to maximise student engagement and success. Could the pre-lecture video be…
Move more, sit less According to a 2013 survey of University of Sydney staff and students, many of us don’t get enough daily physical…
In idea 42, Gibbs argues that student engagement has now become too slippery a concept, and that in invoking it, we need to be…
After attending a faculty-based introduction to university teaching, casual teaching academics may be keen to find other opportunities for professional learning. Here are some…
In idea 19, Graham Gibbs revisits the issue of ‘class sizes’ in universities arguing that cohort size is strongly negatively correlated with student performance. In…
We are pleased to announce that the University of Sydney has recently become an insitutional member of the Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR)….