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…
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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…
Supporting Online Group Work
byWith constructivism as its theoretical underpinning, group work relies upon social interactions to enhance learning by building connections between existing and new ideas or…
In Defence of “Good Enough” in HyFlex Teaching
byFor many teachers at Sydney diving into HyFlex teaching this semester for the first time, it has been like learning to drive; how do…
I speak of place, I speak of me: integrating Indigenous knowledge collaboratively in a first-year unit.
byIn 2020, the transition unit pilot in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences asked teachers and unit coordinators to enact a new vision…
Designing your lecture for the 2021 world (and beyond)
byThe move to online learning and the subsequent impacts of our opportunities to teach at scale in large rooms has seen many academics rethinking…
Teaching Through Podcasts: Reflections on a year of practice
byLast January, in those halcyon pre-COVID days, I was preparing to teach a unit of study that was new to me. This was a…