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…
Teaching research
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…
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…
Surviving EdTech’s spin cycle without losing your mind.
byFrom the early mechanical teaching machines of Sidney Pressey (1926) and B. F. Skinner (1953) through to the current spate of apps, games, VR…
Designing Effective Educational Videos
byWhen it comes down to it, as an educational designer I am concerned with the creation of meaningful teaching resources guided by the theory…
Exploring assessment for public health in higher education
byPublic health, as defined by the Encyclopedia of Public Health, is ‘the field of medicine and hygiene dealing with the prevention of disease and…
Building Effective Interactive Polls for Lectures
byIn our previous article on Interactive Polling Tools, we reviewed three popular polling tools with the aim of helping you select the most suitable…
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…
Some design considerations for videos: Segmentation, synchronicity and signaling.
byCognitive design principles are essentially research-based guidelines that take into account the limitations of human cognitive architecture. In other words, if we understand the…