Power up your preparation for small class teaching
The first classroom that most of us step into as tertiary educators is usually a small, rather than a large one. Small class teaching…
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What is a rubric?
Why use marking rubrics? Assessments are important educational tools, but they can cause confusion and stress if academic expectations are not clear. Some students…
Making group work relevant, meaningful and accessible – Universal Design for Learning in practice
In the April Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Chat meeting, we met with Dr Anne Quain from Veterinary Science to talk about the redesign…
Standardising presentation marking and improving student performance in large scale units [2A2]
We used the University’s Student Relationship Engagement System (SRES) in BUSS5220 Responsible Business Mindset to standardize the marking of presentations. Our goal was to…
Technology to provide customised feedback and reduce examiner workload in authentic case-based assessments [1C2]
This talk will present the evaluation and feedback methodologies of a hands-on end-semester exam, enhanced by technology like SRES for automated, tailored feedback. Previously,…
AI generated stories for prediction activities: Get students engaged before you even start! [1A3]
The strategy of “Prediction” in education is a fairly well-known technique in which students are asked to make informed predictions to a certain question/questions…
Rethinking unit design to support students in entering Occupational Therapy
This case study outlines an ongoing collaboration between Dr Joanne Hinitt, unit coordinator of OCCP1104 Analysing and Teaching Occupations, and educational designer Kria Coleman,…
Innovation through educational design collaboration
Refreshing your unit can happen for many reasons: maybe there is an assignment that’s not working quite the way you intended or maybe you’d…
Prompt engineering for educators – making generative AI work for you
ChatGPT has received a lot of attention across numerous industries. Bill Gates, drawing on the recent advances in AI which include ChatGPT, proclaimed in…
How AI can be used meaningfully by teachers and students in 2023
There has been a lot of hype over the last few weeks about students using ChatGPT, a conversational artificial intelligence (AI) that can write…