Open Canvas Sites – 2022 edition
How have we adapted our Canvas sites alongside our teaching in recent COVID times? Over the last two years, and since our previous Open…
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In the Margins: Creating Cultural Change in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Online by Our Design provides a platform for innovative teaching practices and tips to be shared across the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences….
Online Communication: Scale, Scope and Simplicity in FASS1000
2021 brought with it further challenges to teaching and new opportunities to reflect and learn. Centred on the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences…
Principles guiding education at Sydney
What will ‘normal’ teaching look like in 2022 and beyond? The challenge of balancing teaching for students who are either in Sydney or overseas…
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…
Managing timely feedback and marking
Most teachers would agree that marking assignments and giving students feedback are crucial aspects of educational practice that contribute significantly to student learning. However,…
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…
Broadening horizons: Online offers good news for experiential and embodied learning
Dr Margaret Spencer joined the social work program in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work as a lecturer. Following her professional qualification…
[Assessment or curriculum-wide shifts] Transforming assessments and classes to engage engineering students [2F]
I used more online-based tools such as Kahoot, Socrative, Zoom whiteboard, and Padlet to support the online learning environment. Students were kept engaged through…