Insights for educators on interdisciplinary education
I was inspired to write this post after repeatedly having to explain the nature of my teaching. My engineering training and industry experience often…
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Scaffolding International Business learning with Generative AI
Analysing complex, multinational companies and communicating these insights clearly is essential to international business. But it’s no small task! Recently Professor Hans Hendrischke and…
Delivering personalised feedback at scale using peer videos
In a cohort of large numbers of students, feedback can easily become impersonal. But what if the most powerful feedback didn’t come from us,…
Taking the plunge together: A student’s journey in co-designing with staff
In Semester 1 2025 I joined a project in my home area of study, the University of Sydney Business School, to help educators navigate…
Decolonising the curriculum and fostering empathy through intercultural literacy in the french classroom
Intercultural literacy is both a key part of one of Sydney’s graduate qualities, cultural competence, and of our teaching in the School of Languages…
A recipe for relational pedagogy: Combining warmth, competence, high expectations, and academic rigour
In the very first class of a multi-cohort unit I was coordinating some semesters ago—the Ernst & Young Interdisciplinary and Community Project Unit (ICPU)…
Four strategies for implementing custom AIs that help students learn, not outsource
The launch of Cogniti has opened new opportunities for teachers at the University of Sydney to design customised AI agents that align with unit…
A snapshot of student diversity at Sydney
This article has been updated from the original (2021), and the 2022 and 2023 versions, to include data covering our current students. Our students come from many…
The partnership approach: Integrating AI and human feedback for enhanced learning
Feedback has long been recognised as a cornerstone of effective learning, enabling students to identify strengths and areas for improvement in their academic work….
How to design custom AIs that can propel learning
Cogniti, a platform that lets educators easily build their own generative AI ‘agents’, offers exciting opportunities to enhance teaching and learning. The key to…