Instagram & Disrupt
Mobile devices and social media have often received a bad rap in education. They are often seen as being disruptive or distracting. This year,…
Hack Your Lecture 2018
The lecture has been around since the Middle Ages and the role the lecture is constantly evolving. Over the past few years you may…
“Thank you so much for your kind words and encouragement!”: Using SRES in a large, first-year sociology course
With over 500 students, lecturing shared among 5 co-coordinators, and 24 tutorials run by 10 tutors, reaching out to particular students in a first-year…
EdTech Blog Review – Stanford University’s Tomorrow’s Professor – Flipped Classrooms Old or New?
Stanford University’s Tomorrow’s Professor blog series is a reproduction of a newsletter associated with the National Teaching & Learning Forum. A post which drew me in…
Open Canvas sites – 2018 students’ choice
What makes a really great Canvas site from students’ perspectives? At the end of semester 1, 2018, over 5000 students from across the University…
Mapping the curriculum: deriving how units of study contribute to the graduate qualities
Curriculum mapping involves tracing the connections between the learning outcomes, activities, and assessments in each unit of study to the outcomes for students graduating…
“A great opportunity to reflect on your teaching”: Undertaking Peer Observation of Teaching in FASS
This post was co-contributed by Alex Page, Alyson Simpson, and Tanya Doulaveras from FASS Education, and participants in the Peer Observation of Teaching Program, Semester…
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…
Canvas workshops: foundations and assignments & anonymous marking
Canvas has many powerful features and tools to help your students learn online and for you to support, interact and assess them. Because it…
Knowing Your Students is back!
As we meet the many smiling faces in the first few classes of semester, we are often left wondering, who are our students exactly?…