Sharon Aris looks at how knowledge is valued and practised in industry to reveal how it can be made more explicit to students in their classroom and assessment work.
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Academic Integrity Awareness Week: Be aware, keep it real, reference right
ACAP’s Academic Integrity Awareness Week aimed to raise awareness of the importance of academic integrity to students and staff.
The stress bucket: Managing your mental health at university
The stress bucket is a metaphorical bucket which helps to visualise the things that stress you out and how you can then deal with them.
Linguistically responsive teaching: Strategies to support international students and language learners
Margot Volem presents theories in SLA research and strategies to support multi-language language learners in the classroom.
Excel gradebook spreadsheet: Making it easy to record student grades
Lauren Angel takes you through the different features of an Excel spreadsheet that was created to support unit coordinators to complete their gradebooks.
‘Thriving in changing times’: teachers as change agents (EA Conference)
Lucy Blakemore and Danielle Rock, two attendees at this year’s English Australia Conference, share a handful of takeaways from noteworthy sessions.
Multidisciplinary teaching: an approach to active learning
Dr Saad Odeh introduces contemporary approaches to curriculum integration to highlight their potential impact on students’ learning process.
Connecting your students to the online sphere using hyperlinks
Alyce Hogg introduces the principles of the hyperlink and shares strategies for using the tool across multiple disciplines.
Mastering the art of facilitation in virtual classrooms
Anselm Paul shares ideas and resources to skilfully facilitate interactive virtual classrooms.
Keeping connected to industry: Preparing new graduates for employment
Ben Mayne from Navitas Professional highlights the real and meaningful value in engaging our industry partners to speak with students.
Sailing into the blue: Losing yourself to gain new focus as a teacher
No matter how experienced you are as a teacher, to regain empathy for the challenges faced by learners it’s important you become a student again, writes Gemma Clarke.
Linking learners to their learning goals: constructive alignment and assessment design
Bronwyn Mortimer and Gemma Clarke highlight the importance of constructive alignment and describe how it shapes transparent and fair assessment design.
Setting students up for success through independent learning
Independent learning is critical for success in higher education. Paul Lockhart-Thomas from Cambridge Ruskin International College shares approaches to directing and supporting independent learning.
The value of higher education in recent times: HERDSA conference recap
Conference takeaways from the 41st annual HERDSA conference, where participants reflected on the value and purpose of higher education in changing times.
Strategies for giving effective written feedback to international students
Chad Eller draws from his own experiences with grading assignments to demonstrate how you can provide engaging and useful feedback for international students.