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...
iLearn Open House – Featuring ENGL121, ENGL231 & ENGL389
This week’s iLearn Open House features three units from Associate Professor Marcelle Freiman from the Department of English: ENGL121 Creative Writing 1: An Introduction, ENGL231 Writing: From Manuscript to the Digital Age, and ENGL389 Textual Practices. Marcelle uses the iLearn platform to strategically frame content,...
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.
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."
iLearn. Sigh. #justaskbev
There is no type of rubric I have not mastered – a standard (weighted) rubric, a custom rubric, or a qualitative rubric! I am, however, completely confounded by the fact that my rubric is never attached to assignments in the Feedback...
Have You Lost Momentum?
"Have I lost momentum in my career, and life in general? And if so, how do I get these proverbial balls rolling again?"
Designing Classroom Interaction with Digital Technology
Classroom response systems (CRS) are well recognised active learning strategies. Although student participation and engagement doesn’t necessarily equal learning, we know that active learning strategies promote learning. We also know that many lecturers who teach large student cohorts employ various active...