Learning on and off campus in the new normal – key insights from Sydney students
byA few weeks ago during the 2021 Sydney Teaching Symposium, students from a range of faculties, backgrounds, and year levels spoke about their own…
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How to better ‘feel the room’ when remote teaching
byWith Sydney facing an extended and uncertain lockdown, we find ourselves again starting the semester with remote teaching, facing a wall of black boxes,…
Recipe for student success – the key ingredients for achievement
byIn designing the effective learning and teaching approaches that will emerge from the ‘experiential classroom’ of the pandemic, it is sensible and logical to…
Referencing in first year – what’s the point?
byBeing able to reference correctly is often taken to be a fundamental academic competency and core to the values of academic scholarship. In assessments…
Pharmacists’ Ways of Thinking and Ways of Doing through Object Based Learning
byI found teaching inspiration for pharmacy education in the most unexpected place – Ancient Greece. It all started with a digital collection of artefacts…
Working it out for themselves: the effect of active learning on student outcomes
byThere are many definitions of what active learning is. One of the simplest comes from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) in North…
To See, or Not To See? Who Decides The Answer?
byThe rapid transition to online teaching due to COVID-19 both in Australia and abroad has left us all in a strange new world. One…
Smart Responses to Communicating Health Messages: Developing a podcast assessment in first year of nursing studies
byPopulation Health Population Health is a first-year unit for pre-registration nursing students that takes a broad perspective of health and focuses students on the…
Learning from the best: A case for intra-unit peer observation
byPeer observation is terrifying. There, I said it. Many of us tertiary teachers walk into our first class with naught but a half-day orientation…
With living voice: the power of oral examinations
byThe oral exam, sometimes referred to as a “viva voce” or just “viva”, is most commonly associated with the formal defence of a PhD…