Integrating Text and Data Mining into a History Course
byThis article was authored by Mathew Toll and Marco Duranti. Being introduced to conventional statistical programs can be daunting for students put off by…
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On the wire – highlights from across the web
byThe month’s highlights on higher education from across the web 1.‘Is It Ever OK to Lecture?’ Is it ever ok to lecture? Good question….
Building student capacity through educational technologies – reports from ASCILITE 2018
byASCILITE 2018 was held at Deakin University from 25-28 November 2018. The annual ASCILITE conference brings together academics, developers, researchers, and technologists from around…
Start this semester off with SRES
byWhile there’s admittedly a lot that you can do in an Excel spreadsheet (like pulling together different sources of information with vlookup, late penalties…
Getting to Know Your Students
byWelcome to Welcome Week! Week 1 is just around the corner, and with it brings a new cohort of students to meet and engage….
Best practice guide for lecture recordings
byStudents with a wide range of disabilities may require access to lecture recordings in order to offset the impacts of their condition. Providing access…
Wrangling student cohorts in Canvas
byWith a little help from the Educational Innovation team and some experimentation, I’ve found that organising student cohorts in Canvas to be a case…
On the wire – highlights from across the web
byThe month’s highlights on higher education from across the web 1.My university forced me into teaching training It was all dry ‘eduspeak’ This month…
When intuition is not enough
byIn this extended piece for Teaching@Sydney, Jessica Frawley makes the case for scholarly approaches to teaching and learning. This month The Guardian’s Academics Anonymous (higher ed’s go-to…
Multimodal assessment – what, why and how?
byAll acts of communication are inevitably ‘multimodal’, in that all communication acts are a combination of modes. In written texts, the use of different…