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…
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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…
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…
Engaging students on and off campus
Many of us have been teaching and working remotely since mid-March. It seems longer. Much longer. For the most part, we’ve mastered using the…
Teaching flexibly for learning in all locations
It is clear that we will continue to have students who are unable to travel to campus in 2021. Some units of study have…
Helping first-in-family students navigate their university ‘journey’
There is much to be said for conceptualising the experience of transitioning to university as a stage in a ‘journey’ that all students go…
How do ordinary people teach well during extraordinary times?
Having survived semester 1’s rapid shift to online teaching, members of the University of Sydney community gathered together to celebrate and learn from some…
[Engaging large cohorts] Flipping workshops online in Business [1B]
We were very fortunate as a flipped-learning unit of study that we had a large percentage of our modules already online. However, we needed…
[Assessment or curriculum-wide shifts] Connection, care, and consistency in undergraduate Education [2A]
As we watched the headlines come in daily (if not hourly), it became apparent to us very early in Semester 1 that COVID-19 was…
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…