Deep student learning while crowdsourcing quality questions? The power of PeerWise
PeerWise is an award-winning online platform that helps students engage with unit concepts more deeply and critically. It does this by providing a space…
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Getting your students to know you!
Student engagement and student experience in the classroom are two of the pinnacles of the University’s Strategic Plan for 2016-2020. For me, transforming the…
Business Studio Teaching & Learning – A Sydney-Copenhagen Collaboration
The University of Sydney Business School and Copenhagen Business School (CBS) have initiated a strategic partnership around teaching development. The first tangible outcome of…
Padlet and collaborative learning
University of Sydney staff now have unlimited access to Padlet, making it a great time to take a closer look at what this versatile…
Integrating Text and Data Mining into a History Course
This article was authored by Mathew Toll and Marco Duranti. Being introduced to conventional statistical programs can be daunting for students put off by…
Introducing Sydney Data Stories
Sydney Data Stories is a campus-wide interdisciplinary project which aims to inspire students with the importance of statistical thinking by showcasing the way researchers…
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…
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…