5 Ways To Make Lectures More Engaging
Try out these 5 tips for including engaging interactive activities in your lectures.
A Toxic Effect Of ‘Flying Solo’ For Teaching Staff
Research suggests that working in isolation might actually be harmful for your job satisfaction and well-being, especially if you are an ‘early career’ academic.
9 Tips For Designing A Non-Accredited Program: A Case Study
How does one design a non-accredited program? What works and what does not? This case study of a Macquarie program shares some insights...
University Assignments: Why Students Rarely Go ‘Outside Of The Box’
Macquarie undergraduate student Aprill Miles took to the podium to deliver a keynote at the German Undergraduate Research Conference last month. For Aprill, the experience of working on her own research project has been truly transformational. It also opened her...
Program-Level Design: 10 Practical Strategies For ‘Keeping It Real’
Program-level design helps to provide students with a coherent learning pathway, and ensures what they experience is more than a ‘collection of individual units’.
(Almost) All You Need To Know About Program-Based Design
Program-based design is the next big thing at Macquarie. What is it? How and why should it be done? Dr Panos Vlachopoulos has been involved in program-based design for many years in universities in the UK, New Zealand and Australia;...