Category: Macquarie Business School
From the Macquarie Business School.
What entrepreneurship can tell us about teaching in higher education
Entrepreneurship education encourages students to pursue setting up novel business ventures as a viable career option.
Experiments in teaching: shaking up teamwork, assessment and feedback
Nandini Kumar (Accounting and Corporate Governance) has a passion for teaching which drives her to constantly experiment with techniques to engage students and ensure they have the skills to succeed.
Equipping staff with AI automation skills to streamline marking and feedback
A project in the Department of Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics brings the benefits of AI automated assessment and feedback to the teaching staff who need it most – sessional staff! (But you might like to try it too)
Spotlight on practice: speed dating, electric guitars and goosebumps in accounting – Nandini Krishna Kumar
Nandini Kumar set out to bust the myth that accounting is a boring subject. Here’s how she connects with her students to make learning fun.
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.
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!
Celebrating award-winning educational leadership – Macquarie Business School / Faculty of Science & Engineering
A unique cross-faculty initiative between Macquarie Business School and Faculty of Science and Engineering has developed innovative capstone units that aim to prepare business and science students for post-pandemic ways of working.
Celebrating award-winning teaching – Helen Siuki
Hands-on experience with digital marketing and social media management tools, industry-recognised certifications, and mentoring with industry heavyweights have all been part of Dr Helen Siuki's innovative redesign of the Master of Marketing.