Category: Teaching Practice

Discussions around teaching practice.

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Feedback Literacies In A Minute: What and How

Receiving critical feedback hurts. How can we turn the feedback experience from a negative to a positive one?

/ 24 May, 2018
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Boost Your Professional Development with Lynda

Access over 6500 professional learning courses with Lynda.com to boost your professional development and learn new skills.

/ 17 May, 2018
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Most Online Students Are NOT Satisfied – And 3 Practical Ideas on How to Improve This

Delivering units to external students online shouldn't mean just taking face-to-face content or activities and putting them online. Here are 3 ideas to improve the online experience for external students.

/ 17 May, 2018
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Unleashing the pedagogical power of object-based learning

Join forces with the MQ Object-based Learning Pilot project team and use museum collections to support students 'leaping lightly over knowledge hurdles' in your teaching unit

/ 17 May, 2018
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Connecting Literacies Portal Launched

Connecting Literacies, a central online repository where you can both share and find quality teaching and learning support resources, has just launched as a community unit in iLearn.

/ 15 May, 2018
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The Stickiness of Storytelling In Teaching

Here I delve into the magic and stickiness of storytelling. If you need some inspiration or a reminder to try out some storytelling in your teaching practice, here aresome simple pointers.

/ 11 May, 2018
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What Makes Good Educational Media? We Asked Macquarie Students

What makes good educational media? Our recent Media Production interns weighed in on the matter.

/ 10 May, 2018
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Sharing is Caring – The Many Advantages of Using iShare

iShare is MQ's digital content repository for learning and teaching. Search and contribute resources, link them directly in iLearn in multiple places at once and update files without having make adjustments in iLearn.

/ 4 May, 2018