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Getting students talking through masks and mics – active learning in times of COVID-19

For better or for worse we’ve made it. As we exit semester 1 and the great COVID-19 online pivot, we do so with mixed…

Collaborative assignments via Zoom: “It was a new experience but a good one.”

In Semester 1, 2020 among the many challenges with rapidly going online was how to modify complex assignments to achieve the same learning outcomes…

Students building a structure out of spaghetti

A face-to-face icebreaker for group work assignments

Group assignments require a great deal of planning to achieve successful outcomes and prevent them from becoming a source of dissatisfaction for students. Imbalances…

Widening Participation Grants

A new Widening Participation grant category has recently been established as part of the University’s Strategic Education Grant (SEG) scheme. This new category aims…

On the wire – highlights from across the web

The month’s highlights on higher-ed from across the web 1. How to Prepare for Class Without Overpreparing If you have ever had the experience…

The Abercrombie Sandpit: Tracing connections between the designed environment and learning activity

The Abercrombie Sandpit is a new learning space in the Abercrombie Building. We like to think of it as a ‘living, learning laboratory’ where…

A chimpanzee using a stick to extract food from a tree trunk.

Quiet tools for transformation

In terms of new technologies, the arrival of a new enterprise system is not typically of the kind that gets our cheeks flushed and…

Team work by Budzlife http://flic.kr/p/3GvKXT CC by 2.0

Thinking in Canvas: Using pages for collaborative learning

Collaborative learning involves groups of students learning together leading to shared creation of ideas, solutions and resources. Problem-based learning classes, workshops and laboratories are…