Category: Macquarie Business School

From the Macquarie Business School.

Teach Them the Art of Fishing: a metacognitive learning approach to teaching technology

Dr Ali Amrollahi (Macquarie Business School) reflects on how he meets the challenge of teaching rapidly-emerging technologies to business students.

/ 20 March, 2023

Celebrating award-winning teaching: David Orsmond

Professor David Orsmond might hook his students into Economics by looking at its impact in their own lives - but it's his ability to make complex material accessible while equipping students with sought-after job skills that keeps students engaged and...

/ 10 March, 2023

Revving up engagement and understanding using augmented reality

Who would have thought to use augmented reality to teach financial modelling? Colin Zhang did and here’s how it went.

/ 30 September, 2022

Spotlight on practice: Dealing with emergencies in life and teaching – Michael Volkov

In this TECHE 'long read', Michael Volkov (Marketing) talks about his approach to teaching and why niceness is underrated.

/ 11 July, 2022
Astronaut floating in space above Earth

How to achieve student success with EdTech: new partnership with Forage leads the way

Paul Somers and Dr Shazia K Jan look at how a partnership collectively pushes the boundaries between higher education and EdTech to address a long-standing and common problem.

/ 4 February, 2022

Ask Us Anything!

Dr Lurion De Mello has been running Ask Us Anything sessions on Friday afternoons for his students - and colleagues - to discuss all things finance.

/ 4 November, 2021

Postgraduate post-experience blended learning: can it be done?

Changing a highly rated course which has been around for over 30 years is not a trivial exercise. Especially when you change from face-to-face to a blended learning environment. This is currently underway at Macquarie Business School's Master of Applied...

/ 17 June, 2021

Making economic principles pop with cultural references

Embedding pop culture references and viral trends into your unit can enhance students' understanding of key concepts. Paul Crosby and Dylan Thompson highlight some examples from Principles of Economics 1.

/ 13 May, 2021