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Surviving the Assignment Lifecycle
Marking season is upon us and, for many, the first hurdle of the semester. For students it can be an anxiety provoking time. We give advice at this time of the year: Don’t leave it till the last...
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Gamifying academic integrity
The topic of academic integrity is not always a particularly interesting or easy thing to get students to think about. Recently the School of Business hosted a really engaging session by Dr Amanda...
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Transforming practice and personalising feedback and engagement – at the...
Join over 100 educators from 7 universities on Tuesday 19 November 2019 to share good practice around personalising student learning using data. Specifically, we’ll be looking at the many ways in which...
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Unit outlines in the palm of students’ hands
In 2020, unit of study outlines will be available on the University’s website in a common format, making them more consistent and accessible, to improve the student experience. The unit outline is...
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Developing a sense of belonging
Overall quality of educational experience, by weighted average grade and sense of belonging. Students’ sense of belonging is closely associated with their ratings on the overall quality of their...
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The 2019 ACUR Undergraduate Research Exchange Colloquium
The 2019 ACUR Undergraduate Research Exchange Colloquium is being held on Wednesday 4 December 2019 by the Australasian Council for Undergraduate Research in conjunction with the University of Sydney...
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Multiple choice quizzes for learning- Part 1
Part 1: MCQs – recognition or retrieval? Students often tell us in unit of study surveys and other student feedback how much they appreciate practice quizzes – and they frequently ask for more of them....
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Fee-free program at Sydney to help you become a better teacher
University staff and affiliates who teach Sydney students can take their skills to the next level through free enrolment in the Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (Higher Education)....
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Multiple choice quizzes for learning – Part 2
Part 2 -MCQs can help reactivate previously known information. We saw in part 1 how retrieval practice, including through practice MCQ testing, helps students to reinforce learning. Other studies show...
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Multiple choice quizzes for learning – Part 3
Part 3 – MCQs, knowledge transfer and the role of feedback We saw in parts 1 and 2 how MCQs can help activate the retrieval process to reinforce learning (testing effect), and how they can stabilise...
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New learning spaces: call for research partners
Over the past ten years we have defined and committed to the enactment of a bold new vision at the University of Sydney. This has involved reimagining our organisational structure, curricula, and...
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Important Canvas updates for semester 1, 2020
Canvas has been updated with new features and improvements, these include a consolidated process for assignments involving Turnitin, a new gradebook, and a new optional alternative to the current quiz...
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How will you use ThinkSpace’s new digital wall in your teaching?
The possibilities are endless with ThinkSpace‘s HUGE digital wall. Use the wall for everything from visual exhibitions, data visualisation, interactive displays, presentations, promotions and...
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Making our curriculum visible: unit outlines now online
Unit of study outlines are now published on the University’s website in a common format, giving staff and students unprecedented and transparent access to our curriculum. Populated with information...
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Transition as one stage of a journey
Starting university is a daunting and life defining moment. The University of Sydney is a very large institution with a wide range of disciplines on offer and a very diverse student population. This...
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Knowing your Students dashboard gets a facelift
Just in time for the commencing semester, the widely popular report Knowing Your Students (KYS) has been given a facelift by Institutional Analytics and Planning (IAP) in collaboration with the Deputy...
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ASCILITE 2019 highlights: Playful Learning
ASCILITE 2019 was held at the Singapore University of Social Sciences at the end of 2019. The theme of the conference was ‘Personalised Learning. Diverse Goals. One Heart’. One of the interesting sub...
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Learn from the OLE Pros
The start of the 2020 academic year marks the two-year birthday for the Open Learning Environment – we’re learning to walk! Across the University we now run over 120 active OLE units covering a huge...
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Help with educational technologies is now easier to find
From February 2020, information and help guides for Canvas, Turnitin, Echo360, SEAMS, ePortfolios, and other online tools for education will be easier to find, browse, and search. We have moved the...
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Don’t just bake any old cake – understanding our students to drive practical...
As the year kicks off, there’s always the fascinating mix of excitement for a fresh semester, intermingled with the more mundane “recipe” of things we need to do to start the semester well. Creation of...
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