How to better ‘feel the room’ when remote teaching
With Sydney facing an extended and uncertain lockdown, we find ourselves again starting the semester with remote teaching, facing a wall of black boxes,…
Recipe for student success – the key ingredients for achievement
In designing the effective learning and teaching approaches that will emerge from the ‘experiential classroom’ of the pandemic, it is sensible and logical to…
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…