Multiple choice quizzes for learning – Part 2
byPart 2 -MCQs can help reactivate previously known information. We saw in part 1 how retrieval practice, including through practice MCQ testing, helps students…
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Surviving the Assignment Lifecycle
byMarking season is upon us and, for many, the first hurdle of the semester. For students it can be an anxiety provoking time. We…
‘Teaching Tips’ – Opening up a faculty resource to the University
byOver the past two years, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) has gathered a series of teaching tips from our best teachers….
A dirty job – Curriculum change and the introduction of compulsory weekly revision quizzes in a small second year Science unit
byLearning through practice is a foundational and essential part of the student experience (Laurillard 2012). Giving students the opportunity to attempt tasks, make mistakes,…
Making effective video assignments
byAs the need for video and other online learning resources becomes more important, empowering students to create their own rich media offers a great…
Deep student learning while crowdsourcing quality questions? The power of PeerWise
byPeerWise is an award-winning online platform that helps students engage with unit concepts more deeply and critically. It does this by providing a space…
Rethinking Assessment in Higher Education
byOne of the key goals of the University Strategic Plan for 2016-2020 is to deliver a unique learning experience. Assessment, although may not be…
Building student capacity through educational technologies – reports from ASCILITE 2018
byASCILITE 2018 was held at Deakin University from 25-28 November 2018. The annual ASCILITE conference brings together academics, developers, researchers, and technologists from around…
Wrangling student cohorts in Canvas
byWith a little help from the Educational Innovation team and some experimentation, I’ve found that organising student cohorts in Canvas to be a case…
Multimodal assessment – what, why and how?
byAll acts of communication are inevitably ‘multimodal’, in that all communication acts are a combination of modes. In written texts, the use of different…