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.
Welcome to the New Teche
Welcome to the new Teche, Macquarie's Learning and Teaching Community.
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’.
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?
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.
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...
If there was a university in Westeros … [making videos]
… all the academics would be using Personal Video Capture to connect more effectively with their students! There are 3 options for creating your own videos to share with students. We first took a bit of advice from the wise...
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...
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are good, right?
What other ways could Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence be leveraged in Higher Ed?