Category: Macquarie Business School
From the Macquarie Business School.
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.
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.
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.
Now here’s an easier way to create assignment groups in large units
Colin Zhang (MQBS) shares a remedy for a vexing problem.
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...
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.
What the flipped is SBATPLEZ?
This capstone unit had 4 modes of offering in S2. How did this work and what did the students think?
Efficiently create multiple versions of an exam or quiz
The Version Generator tool is ideal for large units where multiple versions of an exam are required, each with different variables in the questions.
Blended synchronous learning – an example from professional practice
This post shares a few techniques the MQBS Co-op team, the students and I are using to retain interactive discussions and activities in the blended synchronous environment.