Category: Featured

Featuring our best stories and articles.

Ian Paulsen

Professors Profess: Ian Paulsen

Professor Ian Paulsen expresses his mutual love of science and gaming and the problem solving involved in both, his initial concerns about teaching and how diversifying and seizing opportunities is the way to survive the academic adventure.

/ 29 August, 2018
volleyball

Make iLearn Fun and Engaging with H5P

H5P is an tool that can help you create fun and engaging interactive activities in iLearn. There are over 40 content types including course presentation, drag and drop, fill in the blanks, hot spots, image sequencing and many more.

/ 29 August, 2018
watering plants

Coffee Course Day 1: Why Is Feedback So Tricky To Get Right?

Olga and Geraldine, as guest writers for The ANU 'Coffee Courses' Professional Learning Program, have written a 5-day course on Feedback for Learning. Day 1 goes through common misconceptions about Feedback and how to rethink them.

/ 23 August, 2018
Zoe, Pierre, Matthew and Jacqueline

The Hum: Humans Of Macquarie

Zoe talks about Macquarie's collegial spirit, Pierre shares how he loves helping people, Jacqueline recalls how happy she's been to help establish the Medical Faculty and Matthew explains why uni's more enjoyable than school.

/ 23 August, 2018
Lighthouse beacon

Project Beacon Kicks Off

Project Beacon, the newly named Student Management Program Project, has kicked off Phase 1 this week with a demo of the chosen Curriculum Management System, CourseLoop.

Macquarie Lighthouse

Curriculum Renewal: One Week Left For EOIs, Support Portal Info and Comp Winner Announced

A reminder there's one week left for Faculties to submit EOIs (the first stage of the submission process for 2020 course offerings); support portal and key resource links provided; and the new name for the Student Management Program is revealed.

Women sitting in audience

I Stand With You: How To Support The Respect.Now.Always. Project

With the Respect.Now.Always (RNA) Action Plan launched, learn what steps you can take to combat sexual assault and harassment in the Macquarie University Community.

/ 17 August, 2018
students at a whiteboard

The Journey Of A Learning & Teaching Philosophy

Find out how MUIC (Macquarie University International College) developed its learning and teaching philosophy, how they introduced it to their community, and how they make it work.

/ 16 August, 2018
Screenshot of video showing lectern fundamentals

Pracademics: The Small Things

The Learning Innovation Hub and AVTS recently created two short videos on Lectern Fundamentals and Microphone Techniques. And people kind of flipped out. Why? Because it's the small things that go a long way when it comes to making the...

/ 9 August, 2018