In defence of small teaching
byUniversities can often feel like places of endless optimisation, where grants, research papers, strategic documents and promotions applications, make the case for how much…
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A New Peer Learning Experience at the Business School
byThe Master of Commerce is the largest postgraduate program at the University of Sydney Business School. This program has a very high proportion of…
Video project to enhance learning for criminology students in Law
byLaw School Educational Innovation Grant uses expert and student generated multimedia to help students connect theories from the classroom to real-world cases. For Sydney Law…
Enhancing cultural competence for project management students
byBy Roman Eymont, with Dr Ehssan Sakhaee The cultural competence student ambassador role that I undertook in conjunction with Dr Ehssan Sakhaee in 2016 was…
Podcasts on Legal History – An interview with Professor Joe Campbell
byLegal history is part of our shared history of ideas. In this interview, Adjunct Professor Joe Campbell talks about his Legal History Podcast series…
Engage your students with Track & Connect
byDo you coordinate a large, first-year undergraduate or postgraduate unit? The Track & Connect program, a proactive retention strategy designed to increase student engagement…
Small changes in teaching: the last 5 minutes of class
byIn a series of articles in The Chronicle from his book “Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning“, James M. Lang presents simple and practical…
Ensuring your teaching resources are accessible to the widest possible audience
byThe April issue of Teaching@Sydney outlined some simple ways in which tools such as Word or Powerpoint can be used to ensure that teaching resources are accessible to…
#EdTech Talks: Student-generated digital media with Susan Coulson
byAugust’s #edtech talk will be by Susan Coulson on student-generated blended digital media for assessment. Susan will speak about how integrating different media forms…
Introducing the 2016 Student Ambassadors for Cultural Competence
byThis project builds on the success of the 2014 and 2015 Sydney Teaching Colloquium ambassadors and involves five student ambassadors, supported by a student mentor,…