Referencing in first year – what’s the point?
Being able to reference correctly is often taken to be a fundamental academic competency and core to the values of academic scholarship. In assessments…
Core pedagogical principles
A shared educational philosophy At Sydney, students learn in a diverse, inclusive and intellectually exciting environment where knowledge and skills are constructed through collaborative…
Pharmacists’ Ways of Thinking and Ways of Doing through Object Based Learning
I found teaching inspiration for pharmacy education in the most unexpected place – Ancient Greece. It all started with a digital collection of artefacts…
Working it out for themselves: the effect of active learning on student outcomes
There are many definitions of what active learning is. One of the simplest comes from the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) in North…
To See, or Not To See? Who Decides The Answer?
The rapid transition to online teaching due to COVID-19 both in Australia and abroad has left us all in a strange new world. One…
2021 Sydney Teaching Symposium – Resources
Sustaining and maintaining teaching innovation for a new normal This University-wide symposium on Wednesday 14 July 2021 celebrated simple and shareable innovations in active…
The power of feedforward
In Semester 1, 2020, I coordinated the postgraduate research capstone unit in the Master of Economics (MEc) program – Economics Research Project (ECON7030). The…