Educational Fellowships 2020
What is the Sydney Educational Fellowship Program? In 2018 the University of Sydney became an accredited partner of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), allowing…
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Don’t just bake any old cake – understanding our students to drive practical changes in our teaching
As the year kicks off, there’s always the fascinating mix of excitement for a fresh semester, intermingled with the more mundane “recipe” of things…
Help with educational technologies is now easier to find
From February 2020, information and help guides for Canvas, Turnitin, Echo360, SEAMS, ePortfolios, and other online tools for education will be easier to find,…
Learn from the OLE Pros
The start of the 2020 academic year marks the two-year birthday for the Open Learning Environment – we’re learning to walk! Across the University…
Making our curriculum visible: unit outlines now online
Unit of study outlines are now published on the University’s website in a common format, giving staff and students unprecedented and transparent access to our…
Multiple choice quizzes for learning – Part 3
Part 3 – MCQs, knowledge transfer and the role of feedback We saw in parts 1 and 2 how MCQs can help activate the…
Multiple choice quizzes for learning – Part 2
Part 2 -MCQs can help reactivate previously known information. We saw in part 1 how retrieval practice, including through practice MCQ testing, helps students…
Multiple choice quizzes for learning- Part 1
Part 1: MCQs – recognition or retrieval? Students often tell us in unit of study surveys and other student feedback how much they appreciate…
Developing a sense of belonging
Students’ sense of belonging is closely associated with their ratings on the overall quality of their educational experience at the University (figure to the…
Unit outlines in the palm of students’ hands
In 2020, unit of study outlines will be available on the University’s website in a common format, making them more consistent and accessible, to…