Teaching@Sydney
The current University of Sydney Assessment Procedures has highlighted the need and requirements to apply standards-based assessments to our teaching. It explains what standards-based…
One of the best improvements in building content in Canvas, as compared to Blackboard, is the ability to quickly and easily link to other…
Commonly held beliefs about multiple choice questions and other question types that can be marked by a computer are that they can only really…
Over the past few months, I have used the University’s new learning management system, Canvas, to build several sites. These include an OLE, a…
From the early mechanical teaching machines of Sidney Pressey (1926) and B. F. Skinner (1953) through to the current spate of apps, games, VR…
We often assume our students are “digital natives” and are familiar with the social conventions of online discussion – but this is not necessarily…
When it comes down to it, as an educational designer I am concerned with the creation of meaningful teaching resources guided by the theory…
Providing high quality education is a matter of social justice, and ‘Universal Design for Learning’ (UDL) is an innovative framework that supports all learners…
Online discussion boards, whether those that come as part of Blackboard/Canvas or come from an external provider, are a great way to engage your…
During the year 2000, in the height of the dot-com bubble, Steve Krug’s slim and conversational book Don’t Make Me Think burst onto the scene. Neither the first nor the…