Category: Teaching Practice
Discussions around teaching practice.
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Professors Profess: Deborah Richards
We’re in this together”. There will be mutual respect and understanding with an attitude that we (students and teachers) are “doing life” together.
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iLearn Open House – Featuring EDCN814
This week we feature Dr. Rod Lane and his unit EDCN814 – Assessment Issues. Its purpose - to refine student knowledge and skills in educational assessment.
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Turn Feedback into Feedforward or a Degustation Menu
Lessons learned from a recent workshop on feedback, based on a large-scale Australian project titled ‘Feedback for Learning: Closing the Assessment Loop’.
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Educational Media Production Internship – Call for Expressions of Interest
Are you a staff member keen to work with media students? Are you a student interested in producing educational media?
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A Day in the Life:
Professor Sherman Young, Pro Vice-Chancellor Learning & Teaching
"One of the great things about my role is that every day is different" says Professor Sherman Young.
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Academic Promotion 2018 Dates
Considering applying for promotion? The next round of academic promotions will be held in June 2018. Applications for promotion to all levels are due on 1 June 2018. Academic staff thinking of applying for promotion next year are encouraged to...
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A student-centred look at Active Learning Spaces
Active Learning Spaces (C5A 430, C5A 435, W2.4A 2.300and E7B 163at Macquarie) are student-centered classrooms, designed to facilitate and promote student participation and engagement. At Macquarie the spaces contain large, group-sized desks, each equipped with AV (moveable monitors and keyboard per table), which can...
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Pracademics – Teaching during the PHD
For this article we asked Learning Innovation Hub Senior Learning Designer and Teche regular Dr Lilia Mantai, who graduated on 21 September 2017 with a PhD on doctoral education (very meta) at Macquarie.
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Pracademics – Teaching during the PHD
"One’s networks and communities, friends, family and colleagues all contribute to how one develops and views themselves as a researcher."