Maximising student engagement, connection and learning with Mentimeter
byWelcome news – online polling tool Mentimeter is now available for all University of Sydney Staff! Engaging students, particularly in large classes, is one…
Teaching tips
Transitioning students from laptop to lab
byTransitioning pharmacy students back to lab-based learning in a pharmaceutical compounding unit Pharmaceutical compounding refers to the process of combining, mixing, or altering ingredients…
How can I update assessments to deal with ChatGPT and other generative AI?
byThere is a constant stream of news and opinions about ChatGPT, a relatively new generative artificial intelligence (AI) that can produce paragraphs of human-sounding…
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…
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…