Where are we with generative AI as semester 1 starts?
With students streaming back to campus as the Australian university year starts, educators are faced with an incoming cohort with widely variable experience with…
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About Educational Innovation
Educational Innovation is a central team within the DVC (Education) Portfolio at the University of Sydney which collaborates with the University’s staff, affiliates, and…
Game Changer: 5 ways to make peer feedback constructive and promote positive teamwork experiences
Collaborative learning and teamwork skills continue to be the competency and graduate qualities that employers look for in graduates. As educators, we incorporate group…
Getting Every Student to Open the Book and do Assigned Readings: An Integrated Workshop Design in First-Year Pharmacy
In 2023, the Sydney Pharmacy School implemented a new vertically integrated curriculum. Incoming first-year students enrolled in the Pharmaceutics and Pharmacy Practice (PHAR1921) unit…
2024 AI in Higher Education Symposium – Australia & New Zealand – Resources
Scroll down for the recordings Program Note that summaries for most presentations were written by the organisers (with assistance of GPT-4) and…
How Sydney educators are building ‘AI doubles’ of themselves to help their students
If you had an ‘AI double’ of yourself, what would you tell that clone to do? This is a question we’ve posed to over…
2024 AI in Higher Education Symposium – Australia & New Zealand
Over the last year, educators have been doing some amazing things with generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Midjourney, Cogniti, and others. At…
Learning Spaces at Sydney Principle 1: Take an activity-centred approach
This post explores the first of the seven Principles for the (re)development of Learning Spaces at Sydney. Principle 1 is foundational, asking us to take…
Engaging students on placement through asynchronous online modules
Asynchronous online learning is a key part of many degrees at Sydney, but one that students often struggle to engage with. Add in professional…
Unravelling the teaching-research nexus
The Higher Education Standards Framework legislation requires Australian universities to research and teach. Indeed, higher education is distinguished from other parts of education by…