Teaching@Sydney
Population 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…
Peer observation is terrifying. There, I said it. Many of us tertiary teachers walk into our first class with naught but a half-day orientation…
The oral exam, sometimes referred to as a “viva voce” or just “viva”, is most commonly associated with the formal defence of a PhD…
With constructivism as its theoretical underpinning, group work relies upon social interactions to enhance learning by building connections between existing and new ideas or…
For many teachers at Sydney diving into HyFlex teaching this semester for the first time, it has been like learning to drive; how do…
In 2020, the transition unit pilot in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences asked teachers and unit coordinators to enact a new vision…
The move to online learning and the subsequent impacts of our opportunities to teach at scale in large rooms has seen many academics rethinking…
Last January, in those halcyon pre-COVID days, I was preparing to teach a unit of study that was new to me. This was a…
As part of teaching in higher education, we often ask students to read various texts such as academic journals and theory. In tutorials, we…
The return to campus has ushered in new ways of teaching for many at Sydney; one of these is optimistically referred to as “HyFlex”….