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?…
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Educational Technology Blog Review: Hack Education
There is seemingly endless enthusiasm and hype in the educational technology world.Hack Educationby 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…
Quiet tools for transformation
In terms of new technologies, the arrival of a new enterprise system is not typically of the kind that gets our cheeks flushed and…
How2MCQ – Tips for efficiently writing meaningful automarkable questions
Commonly held beliefs about multiple choice questions and other question types that can be marked by a computer are that they can only really…
Principles and Practice program
The Principles and Practice of University Teaching and Learning (P&P) program is a joint Education Portfolio and Faculty program. It is a basic introduction…
Why design matters when keeping students’ attention online
Web and interaction design has had a long history of making difficult and complicated systems usable.When tech is easy we use words like ‘intuitive’,…
Week 4 // Open Door is back, and with more than just doors
Over 90% of University staff who went to an Open Door last semester found the experience helpful, and an overwhelming 95% would recommend it…