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Increasing students’ engagement with feedback
Providing positive and constructive feedback can be the most effective way to support students. This takes various forms, such as in-class discussions or written comments on assignments. Teachers...
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Everyday innovation in assessment
The emergence and acceleration of generative AI necessitates reflection on what’s valuable for students to learn, and how this learning can be assessed. The Australian Universities Accord Final Report,...
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Reflective journals as meaningful authentic asessments in art history fieldwork
With the advance of generative AI and its integration into both the classroom and assessments, teachers are exploring approaches evaluate students’ authentic learning. Here, we highlight the benefits...
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Research for education focused academics: A current conversation
My journey as an education focused academic Education focused (EF) pathways enable academics to build and sustain identities and careers that capitalise on their strengths as educators. I have found my...
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What does excellent scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) look like?
My journey as a scholar of teaching in learning In a companion article, I reflected on how satisfying my career as an education focused academic has been. Alongside a love of teaching, I have developed...
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Designing for authenticity: early feedback in music
In 2024, the Support for Students Policy introduced early feedback tasks across all 1000-level units at the University of Sydney. These tasks aim to identify students at risk of failure and provide...
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Leveraging AI for enhanced financial analysis: A case study with GPT-4...
Recognising the escalating integration of AI in the financial markets, we identified the need for students to develop the ability to critically evaluate AI-processed financial information....
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Increased student engagement and belonging through continually randomised...
Imagine: It is week one of the semester, and the classroom is buzzing with students eager to engage and learn. In small group activities, students discuss ideas and work on set problems. There is a...
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Early Feedback Tasks – Design ideas from Arts and Social Sciences
This year, all 1000-level units at the University are introducing an Early Feedback Task (EFT) as part of the new Support for Students Policy (2023). In 2025 EFTs will be implemented in all 1000-level...
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The Course Design Institute comes to Sydney: February 2025
The University of Sydney is committed to delivering a student-focused, transformative learning experience that evolves to meet global educational challenges. As part of this commitment, the Educational...
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Aligning our assessments to the age of generative AI
TL;DR: The reality of assessment in the age of generative AI Generative AI tools exist that can accurately create content (including written work, images, music, video, and the spoken word) and answer...
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Aligning assessments in histology within the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine
The Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) program has now introduced a novel approach to assessment alignment in the histology module. This initiative is part of a broader shift towards a...
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Navigating transitions and fostering lifelong learning in pharmacy practice
As coordinators for the nationally accredited NAPE Pharmacy Intern Training, we place a lot of importance on advancing the communication skills of our pre-registered pharmacists. By mastering crucial...
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AI as a virtual colleague to help develop courses & teaching materials
Toward the end of last year, a colleague and I published an article about our experiments with using ChatGPT as a virtual colleague for postgraduate course development. Following another year of...
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Incorporating the use of AI tools in a student research project program
The University of Sydney Doctor of Medicine (MD) Program has a mandatory 14-week, individual student research project in year 3 of the 4-year postgraduate degree. This program has ~300 students per...
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Riskee – an AI Assistant to Engage Students in Risk Management
Like many educators, unit coordinators Dr Carlos Vazquez and Dr Zeerim Cheung have been experimenting with strategies to help students deepen their critical thinking while embracing generative AI in...
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Space, sound, breath, and body – using your voice
Most of the time, when talking about ‘voice’ in the context of education, it’s an abstract thing—the student voice, the minority voice, the voice of the community—rather than referring to our own...
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Supporting students with early feedback in 2025
Higher Education Support Amendment Bill 2023 The Higher Education Support Amendment (Response to the Australian Universities Accord Interim Report) Bill 2023 requires universities establish a...
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Engaging coordinators in informal communities of practice for the Early...
With the introduction of the Higher Education Support Amendment Bill 2023 and the Support for Students Policy, the Early Feedback Task was implemented across 1000-level units at the University in 2024....
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How academics in the business school are using generative AI with report writing
As generative AI tools reshape industries, educators at the University of Sydney Business School are rethinking how AI can enhance students’ learning experiences and professional skills. Below we...
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Navigating biology with AI: Transforming first-year learning with Socratic...
Last year, we introduced a Cogniti AI assistant to help educators provide more personalised and constructive feedback on first-year biology scientific reports. Cogniti allows educators to guide large...
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More than just a game: Jeopardy, careers, and dynamic hybrid workshops
HyFlex learning (face-to-face + Zoom) offers great flexibility for our students. However, creating a truly engaging learning experience for both in-person and online students in a large unit like...
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Spotlight on the Library’s Reading Lists service: a partnership to enable...
At the heart of every successful learning experience is access to quality resources. The Library’s Reading Lists service exemplifies this by ensuring students have seamless access to the course...
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AI as a research and feedback assistant in essay plans and annotated...
When ChatGPT first landed, this seemed particularly bad news for people, like myself, who are based in a discipline that is very writing-intensive and where we pride ourselves in teaching students how...
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Strengthening social connections in the classroom: The impact of group work...
The University’s values include actively creating an inclusive and collaborative environment. In regards to student mental wellbeing, this value of inclusivity and collaboration is said to “promote a...
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Designing language and culture AI assistants to develop students’...
I coordinate language and culture undergraduate courses in Spanish and Latin American Studies (SLAS) at different levels of proficiency and I wanted to introduce generative AI (GenAI) assistants in...
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Navigating AI in education: Reflections on a year of innovation and...
Our journey with generative artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education began in late 2023 with the release of Cogniti, a generative AI tool developed by educators at the University of Sydney....
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Bridging academic gaps: A collaborative approach to communication skills...
First year Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) students complete a unit (OCCP5256) that involves high fidelity simulation learning. The unit focuses on the development of professional reasoning and...
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Teaching and learning with kindness
I heard someone say of their students recently that, “you cannot show them weakness or they’ll exploit it.” I’m certainly familiar with this attitude. Some version of it was my own in my early years of...
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The Sydney Assessment Framework
The 6,700 unit of study availabilities in 2024 each had an average of 4.4 assessments. Students took around 30,000 individual assessments and there were over 2.2 million assessment submissions....
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