In defence of small teaching
Universities can often feel like places of endless optimisation, where grants, research papers, strategic documents and promotions applications, make the case for how much…
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Bridging first year barriers: fostering belonging in the biology learning space
First year teaching often requires a delicate and deft hand – teachers balance the delivery of important foundational content with facilitating student transition to…
Designing for diversity – creating bridges and lowering barriers
Throughout most of its history, universities have been largely known for their exclusivity. Terms such as the “ivory tower” have come to reflect not…
Embedding Universal Design for Learning in an online course and creation of a faculty resource
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a set of principles for curriculum development that give all individuals equal opportunities to learn. UDL was developed…
Recipe for student success – the key ingredients for achievement
In designing the effective learning and teaching approaches that will emerge from the ‘experiential classroom’ of the pandemic, it is sensible and logical to…
On the wire – highlights from across the web
The month’s highlights on higher education from across the web 1. Dual Coding and Learning Styles Dual Coding and Learning Styles from The Learning Scientists Many…
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…
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?…
Surviving EdTech’s spin cycle without losing your mind.
From the early mechanical teaching machines of Sidney Pressey (1926) and B. F. Skinner (1953) through to the current spate of apps, games, VR…
Knowing Your Students – deep insight into your cohort
As we meet the many smiling faces in the first few classes of semester, we are often left wondering, who are our students exactly?…