Doing learning design for online, while online
One of the things that the pandemic has shown us is that quality teaching and learning needs to look a bit different in different…
What do students think about working as ‘students as partners’?
In 2020, a group of student co-designers partnered with the University of Sydney’s Educational Innovation team to develop Get Prepared, a learning resource supporting…
Students’ perspective on supporting them in their transition to university
The recently launched Get Prepared Canvas site emerged from a collaboration between a group of student co-designers from a number of faculties across the University and Educational Innovation….
Connecting across borders
Do you remember your first few days and weeks at university? It’s an exciting but daunting time for most and can define how strongly…
Welcoming students to Sydney
Starting university can be an exciting but stressful time. The University of Sydney is a very large institution with a wide range of disciplines…
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…
Get Prepared: Helping students transition to university
In 2020, the year like no other, a team of staff from Educational Innovation and students from across the university came together in partnership…
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…
Designing and implementing learning outcomes
Higher education units are designed in a structured way. Part of the backbone of this structure are learning outcomes that detail what a student…