Category: Featured

Featuring our best stories and articles.

Thoughts On The Inspired Learning Summit

I recently attended the Inspired Learning Summit at UNSW which focused on 'students as partners'. Check out what I learned about putting students in the centre of design, and about adaptive learning technologies, interactive tools and emerging video trends.

/ 15 October, 2018
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Top 5 Tips To Make Feedback Effective

To conclude the 5-part Coffee Course on Feedback, we draw out the Top 5 tips to help make feedback most effective.

/ 15 October, 2018
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Learning in Partnership – The Beni Hassan Research Group

We know that doing hands-on research is an excellent way of developing critical thinking, communication skills, attention to detail, and much more – in short, skills which would be handy in any job. The Department of Ancient History is running a...

/ 10 October, 2018
Academic Senate

Academic Senate Top 5, September 2018

Top 5 Academic Senate Updates for September 2018 - Approval of Future Academic Senate Composition, Grade Appeal Policy Review Update, Curriculum Architecture Update, Establishing 2019 projects and the Chair's report.

/ 10 October, 2018
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“Team X” – Developing a Teamwork Experience to Support ‘Teamwork Capable’ Student Employability

Team X, an in-development Strategic Priority Grant Project, aims to arm teachers and learners with the resources needed to create meaningful and successful teamwork experiences. Find out more and get involved >

/ 10 October, 2018
MUIC DDI

5 Tips To Refresh Your Curriculum

As the new Curriculum Architecture is picking up steam and there is an increasing number of curriculum re-design projects across campus, here are some top tips for curriculum refreshment.

/ 10 October, 2018
Michael Donovan

Embedding Indigenous Knowledges Across The Curriculum – Meet Michael Donovan

Meet Michael Donovan, the new Academic Director, Indigenous Learning and Teaching in Walanga Muru, who, through the new Curriculum Architecture, will be helping faculties embed Indigenous knowledges across all courses by 2020.

/ 3 October, 2018
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Building Your iLearn Unit For Session 3 

Building an iLearn unit to support your compressed curriculum for Session 3 (S3) is challenging. Your S3 iLearn unit must suit the shorter five-week study period whilst still maintaining identical learning outcomes, equivalent assessment and student workload as S1 and...

/ 3 October, 2018
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Dispelling Big Worries for Little Kids

It can be frustrating and even heart-breaking to watch a parent struggle to calm a child suffering from extreme anxiety, but researchers have found a solution that’s been proven to arm little kids and their parents with the skills to...

/ 2 October, 2018