Flipping in the Classroom: Evaluating an Experiment in the Humanities
byIn this extended article for Teaching@Sydney, Dirk Moses, Professor of Modern History in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, explores the hype, hopes and realities…
active learning
Three Interactive Polling Tools Reviewed
byTo poll or not to poll, that is the question! Interactive Polling Tools (also called student response systems, ‘clickers’, or classroom response systems) have been…
Active Teaching Tips: One way to share and display students’ handwritten work during lectures
byGiven the opportunity, students are keen to actively participate in a lecture by doing things such as completing a poll or worksheet. Yet both…
Improving Student Engagement and Preparation: The successful implementation of an EI grant
byProfessor Hans Zoellner and Dr Babak Sarrafpour from the School of Dentistry were recipients of an Educational Innovation grant this year to improve student…
Video project to enhance learning for criminology students in Law
byLaw School Educational Innovation Grant uses expert and student generated multimedia to help students connect theories from the classroom to real-world cases. For Sydney Law…
Enhancing cultural competence for project management students
byBy Roman Eymont, with Dr Ehssan Sakhaee The cultural competence student ambassador role that I undertook in conjunction with Dr Ehssan Sakhaee in 2016 was…
Chunking your class – lessons we learnt from observing other lecturers
byIn week 4, lecturers across the University opened the doors to their classrooms and invited colleagues in to observe how they engage their students….
Education Innovation Grant – Success for the Sydney Design Thinking Toolkit
byAs commerce, business and IT increasingly see the value of design thinking for addressing a range of problems, more students from non-design backgrounds are…
Small changes in teaching: the last 5 minutes of class
byIn a series of articles in The Chronicle from his book “Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning“, James M. Lang presents simple and practical…
Innovation at the core of the vision for education in the Strategic Plan
byThe 2016–20 Strategic Plan sets out a vision for a distinctive Sydney education. Alongside a renewal of what students learn is a focus on how they…