Teaching tips – Page 9 – Teaching@Sydney

31 January, 2020 31 January, 2020

ASCILITE 2019 highlights: Playful Learning

by Ruth Weeks

ASCILITE 2019 was held at the Singapore University of Social Sciences at the end of 2019. The theme of the conference was ‘Personalised Learning….

31 January, 2020 25 May, 2022

Knowing your Students dashboard gets a facelift

by Educational Innovation

Just in time for the commencing semester, the widely popular report Knowing Your Students (KYS) has been given a facelift by Institutional Analytics and…

30 January, 2020 7 October, 2020

Transition as one stage of a journey

by Adam James Bridgeman

Starting university is a daunting and life defining moment. The University of Sydney is a very large institution with a wide range of disciplines…

22 January, 2020 22 January, 2020

Important Canvas updates for semester 1, 2020

by Colin Lowe

Canvas has been updated with new features and improvements, these include a consolidated process for assignments involving Turnitin, a new gradebook, and a new optional alternative to…

12 November, 2019 14 November, 2019

Multiple choice quizzes for learning – Part 2

by Rebecca Anne Denham

Part 2 -MCQs can help reactivate previously known information. We saw in part 1 how retrieval practice, including through practice MCQ testing, helps students…

15 October, 2019 31 January, 2020

Developing a sense of belonging

by Adam James Bridgeman

Students’ sense of belonging is closely associated with their ratings on the overall quality of their educational experience at the University (figure to the…

12 October, 2019 11 November, 2019

Transforming practice and personalising feedback and engagement – at the inaugural SRESCon2019

by Danny Liu

Join over 100 educators from 7 universities on Tuesday 19 November 2019 to share good practice around personalising student learning using data. Specifically, we’ll be…