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Launch of the Immersive Learning Laboratory
Join the Faculty of Engineering and IT on Thursday 17 August for the launch of the Immersive Learning Laboratory – the largest of its kind in Australia. Discover firsthand how virtual reality...
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Week 4 // Open Door is back, and with more than just doors
Over 90% of University staff who went to an Open Door last semester found the experience helpful, and an overwhelming 95% would recommend it to their colleagues. Week 4 // Open Door is a chance for any...
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Exploring assessment for public health in higher education
Public health, as defined by the Encyclopedia of Public Health, is ‘the field of medicine and hygiene dealing with the prevention of disease and the promotion of health’. Public health saves millions...
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Tour open Canvas sites from the University and get ready for Thinking in Canvas
Over 70 physical classroom doors are being flung open across the University during the Week 4 // Open Door event. As more and more units pick up Canvas, the University’s new learning management system,...
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EdTool Tips #9: Canvas and Turnitin – Guide to New Setup and Workflow
I’m really excited to be working in the central Educational Innovation team on the transition to Canvas. As our early adopters begin to hit their first round of assessment using Turnitin inside...
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Why design matters when keeping students’ attention online
Web and interaction design has had a long history of making difficult and complicated systems usable. When tech is easy we use words like ‘intuitive’, ‘easy to use’, ‘user friendly’, ‘enjoyable’ Good...
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(Don’t) Make Me Think
Don’t Make Me Think (Krug 2000) During the year 2000, in the height of the dot-com bubble, Steve Krug’s slim and conversational book Don’t Make Me Think burst onto the scene. Neither the first nor the...
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Innovative uses of discussion boards for collaboration and community engagement
Online discussion boards, whether those that come as part of Blackboard/Canvas or come from an external provider, are a great way to engage your students outside of class. Q&As, lively debates,...
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Inclusive Culture in Our Teaching: Universal Design in Canvas Event
Providing high quality education is a matter of social justice, and ‘Universal Design for Learning’ (UDL) is an innovative framework that supports all learners – regardless of socioeconomic, cultural,...
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Strategic Partnership with the Higher Education Academy
Following a successful pilot, the University of Sydney has become a Strategic Partner of the Higher Education Academy (HEA). The University is now working towards accreditation of some of its...
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Engaging students in internationalisation – symposium and call for papers
For those interested in engaging students in internationalisation global learning, please read on… Symposium – Engaging students as partners in global learning This National Symposium on Engaging...
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Principles and Practice program – register for November
The Principles and Practice of University Teaching and Learning (P&P) program is a joint Education Portfolio and Faculty program. It is a basic introduction to teaching and learning principles in...
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Designing assessment tasks for public health teaching – Constructive...
Designing assessment tasks is probably the greatest challenge in curriculum development. Based on Professor David Boud’s criteria proposed in the 1990s, which are still valid today, well-designed...
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Designing Effective Educational Videos
When it comes down to it, as an educational designer I am concerned with the creation of meaningful teaching resources guided by the theory behind learning. With a firm understanding of the manner in...
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The Lesson as a Work of Art
The German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) said of the work of art, that it is a “setting-forth of earth” and the “setting-up of a world”, in his essay on The Origin of the Work of Art. When...
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The dos and don’ts in online posting spaces
We often assume our students are “digital natives” and are familiar with the social conventions of online discussion – but this is not necessarily the case; and besides, the educational environment is...
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Surviving EdTech’s spin cycle without losing your mind.
From the early mechanical teaching machines of Sidney Pressey (1926) and B. F. Skinner (1953) through to the current spate of apps, games, VR and AI – educational technology has repeatedly traversed a...
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Coming Soon: An Institution-Wide Curriculum Mapping System and Unit Outline...
For the first time, the University will have an enterprise curriculum mapping software system across the institution, along with a new unit of study outline template for all units. The Akari system...
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Enhancing your Canvas designs: Using flexboxes, pad boxes and Feedwind to...
Over the past few months, I have used the University’s new learning management system, Canvas, to build several sites. These include an OLE, a faculty-wide site, and a dashboard. The approach I take to...
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Upcoming seminars on Indigenous, Maori and Pasifika students’ experiences of...
There are two Widening Participation Network seminars coming up on 12 and 13 October 2017. Indigenous students’ experiences of higher education: rippling stories of success On Thursday 12 October from...
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