Projecting student work into the public sphere
byThe dissemination of Enlightenment ideas during the 17th and 18th centuries was fostered by a ‘Republic of Letters’. The greatest thinkers of the day…
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Group work – rich, meaningful and transformative learning
byGroup learning is an increasingly popular approach to assessment; it provides opportunities for collaborative and authentic learning experiences. However, it is not without controversy; teachers report…
2022 Business School Learning and Teaching Forum – 28 September 2022
byThe University of Sydney Business School would like to invite you to our 2022 Learning & Teaching Forum where colleagues from across the Business School and beyond…
‘If we want student engagement, we need to engage academic staff first’: teaching in a changing online environment.
byDr Simon Kwok holds a PhD from Cornell University and specialises in time series econometrics and finance: ‘essentially a study of how observations align…
Assessment and integrity in the age of essay-writing artificial intelligence
byContract cheating, particularly ghostwriting, is a growing challenge for higher education teachers and students. There are a few reasons for this. The internet has…
Jisc’s new principles of good assessment and feedback
byIn case you missed it, Jisc has recently published an excellent resource on the principles of good assessment and feedback. A UK not-for-profit organisation, Jisc…
Authentic online assessment: strategy, innovation and management
byRecent years have seen an increased emphasis on authentic assessments in business courses, designed to mirror the real-world tasks that graduates face in the…
Referencing in first year – what’s the point?
byBeing able to reference correctly is often taken to be a fundamental academic competency and core to the values of academic scholarship. In assessments…
Pharmacists’ Ways of Thinking and Ways of Doing through Object Based Learning
byI found teaching inspiration for pharmacy education in the most unexpected place – Ancient Greece. It all started with a digital collection of artefacts…
Designing and implementing learning outcomes
byHigher education units are designed in a structured way. Part of the backbone of this structure are learning outcomes that detail what a student…