Designing your lecture for the 2021 world (and beyond)
byThe move to online learning and the subsequent impacts of our opportunities to teach at scale in large rooms has seen many academics rethinking…
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A style guide to provide clarity and improve students’ experience
byComments shared by students in the semester 1 USS, and presented as a qualitative topic–model analysis at this year’s Symposium by Jess Frawley and Sam Clarke, highlighted something that we know well: students value clear communication and clear expectations. By way of the…
Assessing Clinical Skills in light of COVID-19
byThe first year of the renewed MD 2020 curriculum was implemented in January of this year. The Year 1 program focuses on developing the…
Are they even watching? Ask your students to let you know what they are getting out of your videos!
byDo you want to know whether your students are benefiting from your carefully developed videos? Ask them to share their reactions by commenting. They…
‘Hello my dear tutor’ – Helping off-campus students have a supportive and personal learning experience in EDUF1018
byWith my colleagues Remy Low and Valerie Harwood, I co-coordinate EDUF1018 Education, Teachers and Teaching, a core first year unit in Education Studies. This…
Welcoming students with SRES
byI started my tertiary education journey here at the University of Sydney. While I was fortunate enough to have somewhat of a soft landing…
Important Canvas updates for semester 1, 2020
byCanvas has been updated with new features and improvements, these include a consolidated process for assignments involving Turnitin, a new gradebook, and a new optional alternative to…
Multiple choice quizzes for learning – Part 3
byPart 3 – MCQs, knowledge transfer and the role of feedback We saw in parts 1 and 2 how MCQs can help activate the…
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…
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…