Start this semester off with SRES
While there’s admittedly a lot that you can do in an Excel spreadsheet (like pulling together different sources of information with vlookup, late penalties…
think in canvas
Hacking your lectures to make them unmissable: Wisdom from the crowd
How would you design a lecture that would achieve 100% attendance and engagement? What would make a lecture ‘unmissable’? That was the challenge set…
Instagram & Disrupt
Mobile devices and social media have often received a bad rap in education. They are often seen as being disruptive or distracting. This year,…
“Thank you so much for your kind words and encouragement!”: Using SRES in a large, first-year sociology course
With over 500 students, lecturing shared among 5 co-coordinators, and 24 tutorials run by 10 tutors, reaching out to particular students in a first-year…
“A great opportunity to reflect on your teaching”: Undertaking Peer Observation of Teaching in FASS
This post was co-contributed by Alex Page, Alyson Simpson, and Tanya Doulaveras from FASS Education, and participants in the Peer Observation of Teaching Program, Semester…
Knowing Your Students is back!
As we meet the many smiling faces in the first few classes of semester, we are often left wondering, who are our students exactly?…
Educational Technology Blog Review: Hack Education
There is seemingly endless enthusiasm and hype in the educational technology world. Hack Education by Audrey Watters is one of my favourite blogs because the author…
Digital Writing and the English Classroom
In a 2015 report, the Foundation for Young Australians highlighted the importance of enterprise skills, including digital literacy and critical thinking, for navigating a…
What OLE choice will you make?
In June last year over 100 academics chose to embark on a bold expedition to turn concept into reality and create the Open Learning…
How interactive teaching can work: A response to Dirk Moses
In this extended piece for Teaching@Sydney, Julia Kindt, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History in the Faculty of Arts and…