Ensuring your teaching resources are accessible to the widest possible audience
byThe April issue of Teaching@Sydney outlined some simple ways in whichtools such as Word or Powerpointcan be usedto ensure that teaching resources areaccessible to…
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Small changes in teaching: making connections
byIn a series of articles inThe Chroniclefrom 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 twoscreens in your lecture theatre, you…
53 Powerful Ideas All Teachers Should Know About
byThe pick this month fromGraham Gibbs’ blog is Idea 33 – that ‘motivating students is not magic‘. The end of a long semester seems…
53 Powerful Ideas All Teachers Should Know About
byIn Idea 30 – Departments differ widely in their teaching quality, Graham Gibbs focuses on the significance of the local departmental culture and respectfor…
Small changes in teaching: the minutes before class
byIn a series of articles inThe Chroniclefrom his book “Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning“,James M. Lang presents simple and practical…
Tools for flipping your class #2: response systems for polling, formative assessment and feedback
byFlipping the classby encouragingstudents to prepare before a lecture, perhaps byproviding short videos,helps build engagement andattendance. It alsoensures that they are ready to be…
Accessible teaching resources: using common authoring tools
byIt has been estimated that the human brain takes in around 34 gigabytes of data each day. For our students, much of this will…
Personalising learning support using the SRES
byDo you want to be able to contact and support individual students based on their performance and engagement but find it difficult in your…
Assessment and professional judgement – 53 Powerful Ideas All Teachers Should Know About
byGraham Gibbs revisits the notion that objective assessment is likely to be near impossible. In Idea 43: Most assessment involves (unreliable) professional judgement and…