Staff across the science, engineering and health disciplines are working creatively to replicate or simulate lab sessions to give students as authentic an experience as possible. One of the challenges is providing students with the chance to actively engage in
Learning & Teaching
Creating Canvas Quiz Questions
Did you know the learning enhancement team can help you convert an existing word document into a Canvas quiz? In this Sister post we looked at some of the different questions types you can use in a Quiz. This semester
Chunking your lectures; redesigning your old lecture slides for online learning
Cognitive load theory explains why students can only take so much in when listening to lectures; after a time, the mind will simply switch off to new information. The way to handle this, is by limiting the amount of ‘listening’
Sustaining Student Interactions in Large Scale Collaborate Ultra Sessions
A large scale session in Collaborate Ultra is one with more than 250 but fewer than 500 participants. Collaborate Ultra currently supports a maximum of 500 participants. For large scale sessions, features that normally promote participant interactions are restricted. Specifically,
‘We all worked together…’: Student Voices in Teaching and Learning
Recently, the School of Engineering hosted an all-school T&L Forum to explore what worked (and didn’t) in their Semester 1 courses, the panel consisted two staff and two students who had studied in the courses taught by the staff members.
Improving student engagement and the GTS in the online environment
Improving engagement and enhancement of online learning In this last semester as we pivoted to online learning, many changes were made to how we deliver our courses. With little time to focus on designing the best online learning environment it
Large Collaborate Ultra Sessions with 250+ Students
Course coordinators with large number of students in Collaborate Ultra sessions are experiencing some connectivity, stability and presentation issues. The issues include: Large CU sessions crashing Presenters locked out (before or after a crash) due to session numbers Dropping out
Student Stories Episode 2
Episode 2: (New) Rules of Engagement Student Stories is a collection of resources designed in collaboration with students from the In2Science programme. Together, we have produced some short videos and activities which can be used by teaching staff to explore
#DryLabsDownUnder
#DryLabsDownUnder is an ideas exchange forum that was inspired by colleagues from the UK. A team from University of Oxford started #DryLabs20 and Dino Spagnoli is hosting the Australian and New Zealand equivalent. Our very own Sylvia Urban, School of
