Introducing Sydney Data Stories
Sydney Data Stories is a campus-wide interdisciplinary project which aims to inspire students with the importance of statistical thinking by showcasing the way researchers…
Start this semester off with SRES
While there’s admittedly a lot that you can do in an Excel spreadsheet (like pulling together different sources of information with vlookup, late penalties…
Getting to Know Your Students
Welcome to Welcome Week! Week 1 is just around the corner, and with it brings a new cohort of students to meet and engage….
Track & Connect is back in Semester 1, 2019
Do you coordinate a large, first-year undergraduate or postgraduate unit? The Track and Connect program is back again in Semester 1 2019, entering…
Best practice guide for lecture recordings
Students with a wide range of disabilities may require access to lecture recordings in order to offset the impacts of their condition. Providing access…
ASCILITE Keynote Review – Paul LeBlanc and the “Benevolent” Mega-University
Paul LeBlanc leads the Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) which has taken dramatic and innovative approaches in tertiary education. Beyond the buzzwords, they have…
Wrangling student cohorts in Canvas
With a little help from the Educational Innovation team and some experimentation, I’ve found that organising student cohorts in Canvas to be a case…
In Transition – mini conference December 10th
Do you or your colleagues have something to share about supporting your students to develop the graduate quality of communication? Abstracts for contributions to the…
On the wire – highlights from across the web
The month’s highlights on higher education from across the web 1.My university forced me into teaching training It was all dry ‘eduspeak’ This month…
When intuition is not enough
In this extended piece for Teaching@Sydney, Jessica Frawley makes the case for scholarly approaches to teaching and learning. This month The Guardian’s Academics Anonymous (higher ed’s go-to…