Online teaching articles and resources
To support Navitas teaching staff as they commence to teach remotely or online, we have curated a number of articles on online teaching developed by our global learning and teaching community.
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Mood before matter: Building student-teacher relationships
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The world at your feet: Preparing students for real life with VR
Culminating from lessons about beach safety which incorporated VR, students from Navitas English Bankstown visited Tamarama Beach to experience things firsthand.
Engaging teachers, engaging students: Reflections on an engagement conference
In this recording, Ann Wilson explores the six elements that are used to measure student engagement (as identified by the AUSSE).
Engaging teachers, engaging students: Reflections on an engagement conference
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Putting engagement back into STEM with active learning
A design-based STEM course has students engaged in (and enjoying) the learning process. Dr Saad Odeh shares a few ideas for hands-on activities.
Appsolutely! Creating engaging content for students with Visme
In this recording, Roxanie Hibbins introduces Visme to demonstrate how to condense Moodle Book content and make it more engaging and interactive.
Creating engaging content for students using Visme
The latest teacher to share in the Appsolutely! series, Roxanie Hibbins explains how she is grabbing her students’ attention with infographic app Visme.
Appsolutely! Creating engaging content for students with Visme
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Appsolutely! Using Flipgrid to ignite student discussion and engagement
In this recording, Jonathan Brown explains how the app works, show you an example and offer some ideas about how it can be incorporated into curriculum design.
Appsolutely! Using Flipgrid to ignite student discussion and engagement
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All aboard! Effective starters for your first lesson with a new cohort
Three useful strategies to help start a class and achieve not only academic and behavioural engagement but emotional engagement too.
‘It’s affirmative’: Student debates are a great alternative to presentations
If you’re still battling death by PowerPoint, why not design a better assessment? SIBT’s Karen McRae swapped presentations for debates, with some lively results!
Buried by readings!
In this recording, Victoria Roberts shares her experience teaching international students’ business law at the Masters level and breathing life into otherwise rather dull and complex readings.
The power of partnerships: transforming learning, engagement and innovation
In this recording, Andrea Chester shares powerful partnership models between students as peer mentors, peer partnerships with teaching staff and student-staff partnerships.
Ready? Get set… Using Socrative in the classroom
After experimenting with Socrative this semester, Simon Thompson from UNIC shares how he integrated quizzes into his teaching.