2021 Sydney Teaching Symposium
Sustaining and maintaining teaching innovation for a new normal This University-wide symposium on Wednesday 14 July 2021 will celebrate simple and shareable innovations in…
SRES
[2B3] An ‘active learning ecosystem’ to transform online student collaboration and time-efficient support
In this presentation I will share a range of online systems (including SRES, Padlet, Google Slides and Mentimeter) used in a case-based speech pathology…
Four meaningful ways to enhance student relationships and engagement with the right data
Students consistently say that they value their relationships with their teachers and their support and feedback. As we move into a COVID-normal teaching context,…
Get set for semester – changes and updates for 2021
Most units in semester 1 will be taught through a mixture of in-person and remote options, enabling great flexibility in teaching modes to meet the…
Supporting students through HELP funding changes
Since the end of the free tertiary education reforms introduced by the Whitlam government, most domestic students have seen their time at university supported…
Working with the wind
To be honest, my first years of unit co-ordination were somewhat of a challenge. Sweeping into the wind when all I had to do…
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…
Helping first-in-family students navigate their university ‘journey’
There is much to be said for conceptualising the experience of transitioning to university as a stage in a ‘journey’ that all students go…
How do ordinary people teach well during extraordinary times?
Having survived semester 1’s rapid shift to online teaching, members of the University of Sydney community gathered together to celebrate and learn from some…