Effective Lecturing: Encouraging Students to Take Notes
byThere are lots of benefits in taking notes during lectures. Before slides and handouts, students used to spend the majority of the class trying to…
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53 Powerful Ideas All Teachers Should Know About – Configuring Exams
byIn Idea 10 of Graham Gibbs’ blog, he discusses the idea that “Students’ marks are often determined as much by the way assessment is configured…
Small changes in teaching: Spacing out learning
byIn a series of articles in The Chronicle from his book “Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning“, James M. Lang presents simple and practical…
Small changes in teaching: Giving them a say
byIn a series of articles in The Chronicle from his book “Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning“, James M. Lang presents simple and practical…
53 Powerful Ideas All Teachers Should Know About
byIn Idea 40 – that ‘self assessment is central to intrinsic motivation‘ – from Graham Gibb’s blog, he argues for the importance of involving students…
Week 4 // Open Door: observe and refresh your teaching
byWeek 4 // Open Door is a university-wide event designed to enable people to see how others teach and to observe how innovative approaches…
Small changes in teaching: the last 5 minutes of class
byIn a series of articles in The Chronicle from his book “Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning“, James M. Lang presents simple and practical…
Ensuring your teaching resources are accessible to the widest possible audience
byThe April issue of Teaching@Sydney outlined some simple ways in which tools such as Word or Powerpoint can be used to ensure that teaching resources are accessible to…
Small changes in teaching: making connections
byIn a series of articles in The Chronicle from his book “Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning“, James M. Lang presents simple and practical…
EdTech News: Lecture recording and a change to how student names appear in the LMS
byThere are some small changes to lecture recording and the LMS for semester 2. First, if there are two screens in your lecture theatre, you…