Category: Assessment
Academic Senate Top 5, May 2018
In this meeting we covered the Curriculum Architecture Project, the Purpose and Composition of Academic Senate, the Global MBA, Policy Approvals of HDR Supervision Policy and Procedure, the Assessment and the Unit Guide, and we sent a big thank you...
Massively Adaptive Complex Realistic Online Simulations with Interactive Mentoring (MACROSIMS)
Using role play create a virtual internship to develop professional identity and thinking
Let’s Talk…. About Contract Cheating
What is it, how can you tell if an assignment has been written by one of these services and what can be done to combat it?
Academic Senate Top 5, April 2018
Check out the Academic Senate's top 5 topics from its recent meeting- Vertical Double Degrees, Master of Research (MRes) updates, Fitness to Practice procedure, Assessment, Unit Guide and Grade Appeal Policy Reviews and welcome to Co-opted Student Senators.
Rethinking assessment: learner-generated digital media
Ideas on how students-as-partners can participate in assessment practice.
Turn Feedback into Feedforward or a Degustation Menu
Lessons learned from a recent workshop on feedback, based on a large-scale Australian project titled ‘Feedback for Learning: Closing the Assessment Loop’.
Ten Easy Ways To Put Research And Inquiry Into Units (9/10)
[Almost there! ] This series of posts presents ten simple suggestions to help you change your units or parts of your units to develop students’ research skills and competencies that you can adapt to suit your particular context. 10 easy ways...
Macquarie University runs first trial Of BYOD E-Exams
Macquarie University recently ran its first trial of BYOD e-Exams. How did it go?
Ideas From HERDSA2017
This year’s theme was “Curriculum Transformation” with presentations organised around practical implications, drivers and facilitators in curriculum transformation. Here is what I learned based on selected presentations I attended.