Zooming in on the mind’s ear: Aural Perception exams in a pandemic
byLate one Tuesday afternoon in March 2020, I was at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music busily preparing handouts for the following morning’s solfège tutorials….
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Teaching Through Podcasts: Reflections on a year of practice
byLast January, in those halcyon pre-COVID days, I was preparing to teach a unit of study that was new to me. This was a…
What do students think about working as ‘students as partners’?
byIn 2020, a group of student co-designers partnered with the University of Sydney’s Educational Innovation team to develop Get Prepared, a learning resource supporting…
Supporting students to become leaders for good in a post-COVID world
byThe global, local and personal challenges facing students engaging in their university studies in 2020 cannot be underestimated. The immediate impacts of the pandemic…
Online By Our Design: Our Community and Our Stories
byObserving the rapid, creative, and in some cases experimental approaches colleagues took to engaging students in online learning throughout Semester 1, the Dean of…
A tipping point for higher education?
byThe disruption of higher education through forces such as technological innovation, globalisation, shifts in government funding, and changes in the nature of work has…
Digital Writing and the English Classroom
byIn a 2015 report, the Foundation for Young Australians highlighted the importance of enterprise skills, including digital literacy and critical thinking, for navigating a…
2018 Strategic Education Grants: workshop for applicants
byThe Strategic Education Grants program is a competitive scheme to fund educational innovation and targeted curriculum development to deliver enhanced student learning outcomes across the University. The…
Assessing Communication Skills in a Clinical Environment using iPads
byIn the Faculty of Health Sciences we know how essential it is that students receive specific and timely feedback to help them improve…
Recap – Health Education Innovation Forum, Monday 5 December 2016
byAcademic and professional staff from Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy and the Faculty of Health Science took part in the inaugural Health Education Innovation Forum…