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Welcoming students back to campus
A successful orientation and transition experience is vital in developing a sense of belonging to the University, which is itself strongly linked to both student satisfaction and success. In the last...
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“Why is my lecturer a robot now?” Using AI-assisted technology to teach.
“Why is my lecturer a robot now”? This was the question entered into the chat function of Zoom by a student when I first used an AI-assisted avatar of my voice to teach into an undergraduate class in...
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Principles for transformational educational experiences
For many of us, our higher education journeys led to a marked change in our life, hugely increasing our aspirations and career expectations leading to higher standards of living and allowing us to have...
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Well-being first: Building relationships in online teaching spaces
Phillip Poulton and Rachel Yoo are PhD candidates and tutors in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work, and also qualified primary school teachers with years of experience in the classroom...
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Let’s talk about PhD skills
Many PhD candidates will agree that the question “How is your PhD going” might send shivers down their spine – depending on how productive the day was. Many will advise to never EVER ask a candidate...
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‘It’s the pedagogy not the technology that counts’ in HyFlex teaching
In Semester 1 2021, Tamara Neal taught in HyFlex for the first time, in two language units with multiple workshops a week, and continues to do so. HyFlex is a teaching mode where students attend...
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Boost student engagement with a universal approach to learning design
Student engagement, connectedness, and sense of belonging feature prominently in our day-to-day conversations about learning design. There are so many factors to consider when teaching a diverse...
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Using peer review as evidence and improvement of your teaching
The wider uptake of peer review of teaching has the potential to make a valuable contribution to the advancement of higher education — among its various benefits, peer review can play an important role...
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Disconnection and humanising teaching
Recently there have been reports of a growing phenomenon of disconnection among students in the media. I’m sure that many of us can relate to the feelings of exhaustion and burnout that 2 + years of...
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Wayfinding – your guide to (some) teaching resources at Sydney
When I started teaching at Sydney I was definitely winging it! My first class was early in my PhD studies, as sole tutor in a second year subject of 46 participants. Despite faculty and department...
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Top 5 questions about making videos for teaching – with simple answers
Making video content for your teaching can sometimes be a little daunting. The Educational Innovation Media Team creates all sorts of video content, and we also support staff to make their own (you can...
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Assessment and integrity in the age of essay-writing artificial intelligence
Contract cheating, particularly ghostwriting, is a growing challenge for higher education teachers and students. There are a few reasons for this. The internet has made it much easier for students to...
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Engaging students in Law with active learning
Traditionally, law lectures are generally didactic in nature, with limited student participation or interaction, which is usually reserved for weekly tutorial classes. However, in response to recent...
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Using Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) in Courses
Information Overload Source: INSIDE Higher ED Several years ago, a picture of an American professor angrily pointing to a t-shirt underneath his unbuttoned dress shirt went viral. The t-shirt read:...
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Research and reflections on being a ‘good’ teacher
The Sydney Law School hosts several legal education seminars each year, and theme for 2022 is Award Winning Teachers. In April, the series was kicked off by none other that our own award-winning...
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‘If we want student engagement, we need to engage academic staff first’:...
Dr Simon Kwok holds a PhD from Cornell University and specialises in time series econometrics and finance: ‘essentially a study of how observations align over time, like the stock prices over time or...
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Australasian Conference of Undergraduate Research is turning 10 and is coming...
We introduced the Australasian Council of Undergraduate Research (ACUR) to the Teaching@Sydney community in 2019 when we announced a colloquium organised on the University of Sydney campus in...
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Getting it together – setting up group work for success
I am a huge fan of collaboration – as a set of skills, and a process, it’s one of the best ways to generate innovative and unexpected approaches and ideas (1), and, as a process in which learning and...
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Relationships are not enough: What it takes for students to belong
For a long time, I’ve been waxing lyrical about the importance of relationships in higher education, particularly the relationships that teachers form with students, and that students form with peers....
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It’s your time: A vision for education at Sydney
Our new Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education) Professor Joanne Wright welcomed people to the recent 2022 Sydney Teaching Symposium and spoke about how we can all work together to improve teaching quality...
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