Week 4 // Open Door is back!
The week-long event last year that had staff around the University asking for more is back this semester. Loved it. Should be more! I…
2017 Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies Lunch and Learn Series
Online registrations for the 2017 Lunch and Learn series are now open. This series is an initiative of the newly formed Faculty of Engineering…
Peer Observation and Review of Teaching takes off in Health Sciences
Do you want to improve your teaching with some constructive feedback from your peers? An expanded Peer Observation and Review of Teaching program is being…
‘Academic Skills for University Success’ Capstone MOOC goes live!
‘Academic Skills for University Success: Capstone’, the fifth and final MOOC in CET’s ‘Academic Skills for University Success’ Specialization on Coursera, goes live…
Tutorial teaching for the first time: some advice for preparation
With the beginning of semester 1 looming, many higher degree research candidates will be preparing to tutor for the first time. This is likely…
Workshop: Models and principles for working in partnership with students
There is a groundswell of people at the University of Sydney working in partnership with students to transform higher education. There are examples across…
The myth of the ‘digital native’
In 2001, Marc Prensky’s paper ‘Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants’ burst onto the education scene with a metaphor that managed to put into words what a…
Knowing Your Students – deep insight into your cohort
As we meet the many smiling faces in the first few classes of semester, we are often left wondering, who are our students exactly?…
Engaging students with tough topics using informal tutorial quizzes
On paper, tutorials are small classes that allow students to apply, discuss, debate or practice the week’s lecture content. Though often imagined as a forum for student…