Learning on and off campus in the new normal – key insights from Sydney students
A few weeks ago during the 2021 Sydney Teaching Symposium, students from a range of faculties, backgrounds, and year levels spoke about their own…
authentic assessment
Core pedagogical principles
A shared educational philosophy At Sydney, students learn in a diverse, inclusive and intellectually exciting environment where knowledge and skills are constructed through collaborative…
Pharmacists’ Ways of Thinking and Ways of Doing through Object Based Learning
I found teaching inspiration for pharmacy education in the most unexpected place – Ancient Greece. It all started with a digital collection of artefacts…
With living voice: the power of oral examinations
The oral exam, sometimes referred to as a “viva voce” or just “viva”, is most commonly associated with the formal defence of a PhD…
Zooming in on the mind’s ear: Aural Perception exams in a pandemic
Late one Tuesday afternoon in March 2020, I was at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music busily preparing handouts for the following morning’s solfège tutorials….
Supporting Online Group Work
With constructivism as its theoretical underpinning, group work relies upon social interactions to enhance learning by building connections between existing and new ideas or…
Four meaningful ways to enhance student relationships and engagement with the right data
Students consistently say that they value their relationships with their teachers and their support and feedback. As we move into a COVID-normal teaching context,…
Engaging students on and off campus
Many of us have been teaching and working remotely since mid-March. It seems longer. Much longer. For the most part, we’ve mastered using the…
Teaching flexibly for learning in all locations
It is clear that we will continue to have students who are unable to travel to campus in 2021. Some units of study have…
How do ordinary people teach well during extraordinary times?
Having survived semester 1’s rapid shift to online teaching, members of the University of Sydney community gathered together to celebrate and learn from some…