Category: Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences

From the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences.

New Special Consideration Policy, From Session 3

The current Disruption to Studies (DTS) process is being replaced with a new Special Consideration policy which takes effect from Session 3 (4th December 2017).

/ 23 November, 2017

FHS Teacher Of The Week:Tracy Worthington

Dr Tracy Worthington is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Educational Studies I was born in North Ryde, so I’m excited that this past July my life and career brought me back full circle to here thanks to my...

/ 23 November, 2017
iLearn Dropin

iLearn Open House – Featuring EDCN814

This week we feature Dr. Rod Lane and his unit EDCN814 – Assessment Issues. Its purpose - to refine student knowledge and skills in educational assessment.

/ 20 November, 2017
active learning space with bender from Futurama on screens

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are good, right?

What other ways could Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence be leveraged in Higher Ed?

/ 26 October, 2017

Active Learning: Special FLTC Recap

The Special FLTC Meeting on Thursday 12th October, open to all staff in the faculty, explored our big blue sky ideas for active learning in the curriculum.

/ 25 October, 2017

iLearn. Sigh. #justaskbev

There is no type of rubric I have not mastered – a standard (weighted) rubric, a custom rubric, or a qualitative rubric! I am, however, completely confounded by the fact that my rubric is never attached to assignments in the Feedback...

/ 14 September, 2017
Headshot of Beverley Miles, with caption 'just ask Bev'

iLearn. Sigh. #justaskbev

Dear Bev, I go to great lengths to give my students critical concise feedback on their assessments. I follow the university’s evidence-based procedure (examples). I just don’t see any sign that my students are reading the feedback I give them, let alone addressing...

/ 14 September, 2017

EdTech Spotlight: VoiceThread

VoiceThread is an interactive collaboration and sharing tool that enables users to add images, documents, and videos to which other users can add voice, text, audio file or video comments – all asynchronously.

/ 17 August, 2017

Meet your Peer Review of Teaching Leaders

Peer Review of Teaching promotes a culture of ongoing reflection and communication amongst academics, leading to quality enhancement in learning and teaching (Sachs & Parsell, 2014).

/ 11 August, 2017