(Don’t) Make Me Think
During the year 2000, in the height of the dot-com bubble, Steve Krug’s slim and conversational book Don’t Make Me Think burst onto the scene. Neither the first nor the…
Why design matters when keeping students’ attention online
Web and interaction design has had a long history of making difficult and complicated systems usable. When tech is easy we use words like ‘intuitive’,…
EdTool Tips #9: Canvas and Turnitin – Guide to New Setup and Workflow
I’m really excited to be working in the central Educational Innovation team on the transition to Canvas. As our early adopters begin to hit…
Tour open Canvas sites from the University and get ready for Thinking in Canvas
Over 70 physical classroom doors are being flung open across the University during the Week 4 // Open Door event. As more and more…
Exploring assessment for public health in higher education
Public health, as defined by the Encyclopedia of Public Health, is ‘the field of medicine and hygiene dealing with the prevention of disease and…
Week 4 // Open Door is back, and with more than just doors
Over 90% of University staff who went to an Open Door last semester found the experience helpful, and an overwhelming 95% would recommend it…
Launch of the Immersive Learning Laboratory
Join the Faculty of Engineering and IT on Thursday 17 August for the launch of the Immersive Learning Laboratory – the largest of its…
Synergy shines on
Who remembers Synergy? (Bonus points if you published in Synergy). Synergy was a publication by the Institute for Teaching and Learning. There were 31…
Thinking in Canvas: Get inspired by innovative Canvas sites from around the University
As we move into semester 2, over 90 units of study will be running their unit sites in Canvas for the first time. The…
Building Effective Interactive Polls for Lectures
In our previous article on Interactive Polling Tools, we reviewed three popular polling tools with the aim of helping you select the most suitable…