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?
Active Learning: Special FLTC Recap
The Special FLTC Meeting on Thursday 12th October, open to all staff in the faculty, explored our big blue sky ideas for active learning in the curriculum.
How To Get A Unit From Idea To iLearn In 7 Steps
New to Macquarie? Toying with a new unit idea? First time developing a unit? We have you covered. Even seasoned Macquarie staff get confused and overwhelmed by all the acronyms, committees, technologies and systems that are being thrown around in...
TBL: Totally Brilliant Learning … man
Over 90% of students who trialled Team-Based Learning (TBL) in the Bachelor of Clinical Science stated that the TBL format motivated them to prepare for tutorials, provided an effective way to apply their learning, helped them develop their synthesising skills and took their learning a...