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The new Modular Professional Learning Framework – choose your own...
A flexible new program for educators offers a choice of 19 modules to help you access just the learning that you need, right when you need it. The Modular Professional Learning Framework (MPLF) is a...
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Making relationship-rich experiences the heart of higher education
Students crave personal connections with their teachers and with each other. Even with shifts to more online and blended delivery of content, it is the development of the relationship with their...
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A tipping point for higher education?
The disruption of higher education through forces such as technological innovation, globalisation, shifts in government funding, and changes in the nature of work has long been predicted. Just as...
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Making effective video assignments
As the need for video and other online learning resources becomes more important, empowering students to create their own rich media offers a great way to generate learning resources and place students...
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Thinking outside the box: Bringing a pharmacy into a business classroom
Since 2016, undergraduate and postgraduate students from the Sydney Business School have collaborated with students from the Sydney School of Pharmacy, as part of a interdisciplinary project involving...
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Being a part of Our Place: Designing a transformative and connected learning...
Active participation in shaping and influencing society, whether it is as part of a movement for change, addressing critical global and local challenges, or sharing the experience of being a part of...
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How can our teaching enhance student mental health and wellbeing?
As we approach the beginning of semester 2 and dust off our chalk (or whiteboard markers or PowerPoint files), it’s a key time to examine the significant impact that we, as educators, have on our...
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Support students with a values affirmation exercise
The start of semester can be an exciting and stressful time for students. For those from under-represented groups, a place like The University of Sydney, with its sandstone, traditions, and diverse mix...
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A face-to-face icebreaker for group work assignments
Group assignments require a great deal of planning to achieve successful outcomes and prevent them from becoming a source of dissatisfaction for students. Imbalances in work on tasks, personality...
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From educational innovation grant to national tour
An inter-faculty group of eight University of Sydney academics, as the Sydney Arts and Health Collective, had been working together since 2016 to find creative approaches to respond to student and...
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The Opening Learning Environment: 18 months on
It’s now over 18 months since the Open Learning Environment (OLE) was officially opened as a key and innovative feature of the reimagined Sydney educational experience. The OLE was conceived to...
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Open your classroom and discover someone else’s
Open Door is a University-wide event designed to enable all staff to observe, connect and learn from teaching colleagues. It’s part of the University’s Strategic Plan to support and promote excellence...
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Engage your students in new ways with the help of the DIY recording booth
Educators across the University are engaging students better than ever before, with the help of the University’s DIY recording booth. Located in the Education Building A35 and run by Educational...
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From one-size-fits-all professional learning to choose-your-own-adventure
The University’s newest training program for Sydney educators has changed the professional learning landscape from a single torrential river to a rich interconnected delta in more ways than one. River...
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On the wire – highlights from across the web
The month’s highlights on higher education from across the web 1. Dual Coding and Learning Styles Dual Coding and Learning Styles from The Learning Scientists Many educators still hold the view that...
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HEA Fellowships 2019-2020
A HEA Fellowship provides international recognition for educational excellence. What is HEA Fellowship and why should I apply for one? Fellowships of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) provide...
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A dirty job – Curriculum change and the introduction of compulsory weekly...
Learning through practice is a foundational and essential part of the student experience (Laurillard 2012). Giving students the opportunity to attempt tasks, make mistakes, process why they made...
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Animations in education – why and how?
Teaching students from a broad range of academic backgrounds is a challenge, one that is quite common in many postgraduate coursework degrees. Students in the post-graduate subject Research Inquiry in...
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‘Teaching Tips’– Opening up a faculty resource to the University
Over the past two years, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) has gathered a series of teaching tips from our best teachers. Fittingly called ‘Teaching Tips’, it contains easy to read and...
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On the wire – highlights from across the web
The month’s highlights on higher education from across the web 1. Teaching Online Will Make You a Better Teacher in Any Setting Teaching Online Will Make You a Better Teacher in Any Setting from The...
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