The Opening Learning Environment: 18 months on
byIt’s now over 18 months since the Open Learning Environment (OLE) was officially opened as a key and innovative feature of the reimagined Sydney educational experience….
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Gamification in Education: The future of soft skills development
byIn an era filled with newfound technologies and innovation, it comes as no surprise that the education sector is facing the trend of mobile…
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…
Industry and Community Project Units – Preparing Our Students for the Real World
byThe world is changing rapidly; the next generation will need to be equipped to face urgent problems and challenges unlike any time before. Higher…
Our new robot overlords, the future of work, graduate qualities and the redeeming power of education
byThis year’s big media theme is that we human workers will be replaced by robots and AI (Artificial Intelligence). Computers are efficient and unsentimental,…
Connecting the dots in the new curriculum
byCurriculum is ambitious business. In designing it, we make a claim about what we ought to teach, and what our students ought to learn….
Integrated learning: a Faculty/Library Partnership for Embedding Digital Literacy in the Curriculum
byMany of us are aware that embedding the new Graduate Qualities in the curriculum has been going on for some time, even prior to…
Storyboarding – It’s now or never!
byStage 1 – Visualising your UoS design Jessica Frawley’s recent article in Teaching@Sydney, ‘(Re)designing Your Unit of Study – Learning Outcomes and Constructive Alignment’,…
Innovation Week 2017: Sydney Teaching Colloquium – The Creative Curriculum
byRegister and save the date for this year’s Sydney Teaching Colloquium on Wednesday 16th August From 1-4 pm on Wednesday 16th August in the Education Building Lecture…
Graduate qualities – what are they and why are they important?
byThroughout higher education there has been a lot of talk about graduate qualities – sometimes referred to as graduate attributes. Graduate qualities are usually defined…