How AI can be used meaningfully by teachers and students in 2023
byThere has been a lot of hype over the last few weeks about students using ChatGPT, a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) that can write…
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What teachers and students should know about AI in 2023
by2022 ended with a tremendous amount of discussion on artificial intelligence (AI) and the trend has continued in 2023. People on social media are…
A rich Twitter experience on Canvas
byDespite the perils that are currently besetting the social media platform, Twitter is at the centre of the public promotion and discussion of science….
Projecting student work into the public sphere
byThe dissemination of Enlightenment ideas during the 17th and 18th centuries was fostered by a ‘Republic of Letters’. The greatest thinkers of the day…
Managing difficult conversations in the classroom
byWith around 75,000 students at The University of Sydney it should come as no surprise that occasionally they, and we, might feel differently about…
Tort law ‘on the go’: using podcasts to cover key cases
byPrimary materials for teaching tort law are case law and statutes. This year, Dr Gemma Turton experimented with using podcasts in LAWS5001 Torts, to…
Being human together – insights from students and teachers at the 2022 Sydney Teaching Symposium roundtable
byIt’s the middle of 2022 and we’ve had two and a half very strange years at Sydney. Two and a half years of figuring…
Relationships are not enough: What it takes for students to belong
byFor a long time, I’ve been waxing lyrical about the importance of relationships in higher education, particularly the relationships that teachers form with students,…
Getting it together – setting up group work for success
byI am a huge fan of collaboration – as a set of skills, and a process, it’s one of the best ways to generate…
‘If we want student engagement, we need to engage academic staff first’: teaching in a changing online environment.
byDr Simon Kwok holds a PhD from Cornell University and specialises in time series econometrics and finance: ‘essentially a study of how observations align…