[1A3] Replacing placements with authentic, simulated experiences for work-integrated learning
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in many speech pathology (SP) placements being cancelled; in May 2020 we had a 52% shortfall of SP placements. In…
[1A2] Physics@Home: Authentic experiments and community building online and anywhere
A major challenge with teaching physics online is how to provide students with critical skills in experimental lab. Last year PHYS1001 was completely redesigned…
[1A1] Building connection and belonging in large remote and on-campus cohorts
Launching a brand new, large, core unit in 2021 was a unique and exciting challenge for the FASS1000 teaching team. With the lessons we…
Keynote: Relationship-rich education and the ‘new normal’
The novelist Arundhati Roy has argued that historically pandemics force “humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew”. A liminal moment…
With living voice: the power of oral examinations
The oral exam, sometimes referred to as a “viva voce” or just “viva”, is most commonly associated with the formal defence of a PhD…
Zooming in on the mind’s ear: Aural Perception exams in a pandemic
Late one Tuesday afternoon in March 2020, I was at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music busily preparing handouts for the following morning’s solfège tutorials….
Supporting Online Group Work
With constructivism as its theoretical underpinning, group work relies upon social interactions to enhance learning by building connections between existing and new ideas or…