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…
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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…
2021 Fellowship opportunities
In 2021 the University of Sydney as part of its Strategic Partnership with AdvanceHE is offering all staff the chance to receive professional recognition for…
HyFlex Teaching: Let the environment and students scaffold you
It is hard to drive a car and simultaneously engage in a serious conversation for a P-plate driver, particularly when they need to steer…
Designing your lecture for the 2021 world (and beyond)
The move to online learning and the subsequent impacts of our opportunities to teach at scale in large rooms has seen many academics rethinking…
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,…
Doing learning design for online, while online
One of the things that the pandemic has shown us is that quality teaching and learning needs to look a bit different in different…
What do students think about working as ‘students as partners’?
In 2020, a group of student co-designers partnered with the University of Sydney’s Educational Innovation team to develop Get Prepared, a learning resource supporting…
Students’ perspective on supporting them in their transition to university
The recently launched Get Prepared Canvas site emerged from a collaboration between a group of student co-designers from a number of faculties across the University and Educational Innovation….