Category: Featured
Featuring our best stories and articles.
ABCs of pedagogy: G is for game-based learning
Gamification can motivate students to become active participants in their learning.
Live class workbooks
Create a shared document to monitor student activity responses in real time during live classes.
From confusion to confidence – mapping the journey for first-year students.
Lisa Rohanek (MQBS) outlines how she nurtures the students in her first-year units and then teaches them to be self-reliant. Is it mothering or just good teaching practice? Read on – and then judge for yourself.
A recipe for teaching success: Free Development Opportunities
All of the ingredients laid out ready for you to cook up a feast!
What to do with quizzes now that ChatGPT quickly aces them? Here’s one idea…
If you have automatically graded quizzes in iLearn, then read on.
Spotlight on practice: Using rich case studies to make learning stick – Joel Fuller
Joel Fuller (Health Sciences) explains how connecting students with real stories develops holistic clinical skills.
Teachers beware: The Feedback Sandwich might be off the menu!
Before you craft your next Feedback Sandwich, consider reassessing its ingredients! While the Sandwich method is popular, its effectiveness is under debate.
Where’s Hector? And why has he been popping up all over campus?
Dr Hector Viveros Tapia (MQBS) is using our beautiful campus to foster connections with, and between, students – and they’re all having a great time in the process!
A faculty-wide approach to improving first-year student experience boosts retention in MQBS
Lisa Rohanek (MQBS) explains how support from the top and right across the faculty is really driving a shared strategic approach to student success – and it’s working!