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Engaging first-year students in research: An example from the Netherlands
Mayke Vereijken, PhD Candidate from Leiden University in The Netherlands, on how to engage first-year students in research through their learning activities, appropriate to discipline.
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Ten Easy Ways To Put Research And Inquiry Into Units (5/10)
This series of posts presents ten simple suggestions to help you change your units or parts of your units to develop students’ research skills and competencies that you can adapt to suit your particular context.
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iLearn. Sigh. #justaskbev
Sorting and arranging student names, IDs and marks into the format the iLearn Gradebook needs from the chaos I receive is just so time-consuming and frustrating. Importing marks drives me bonkers. Surely there's a way that iLearn can do most...
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Ten Easy Ways To Put Research And Inquiry Into Units (2/10)
This series of posts presents ten simple suggestions to help you change your units or parts of your units to develop students’ research skills and competencies that you can adapt to suit your particular context.
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Peer Review of Teaching – Update
Agnes Bosanquet provides an update on Peer Review of Teaching and some of the ideas and issues that Macquarie's community will need to consider. She is currently leading the Peer Review of Teaching initiative at the Faculty of Human Sciences.
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Ten Easy Ways To Put Research And Inquiry Into Units (2/10)
This series of posts presents ten simple suggestions to help you change your units or parts of your units to develop students’ research skills and competencies that you can adapt to suit your particular context. 10 easy ways Change an...
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Peer Review of Teaching
Peer review of teaching can take many different forms, of which classroom observation is probably the most well-known one. However, it also encompasses online teaching and teaching related activities, such as revision of teaching materials, development of units, writing of assessment tasks, mapping program...
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Surviving and managing marking
Here are some helpful tips on how to manage intense marking periods and stay sane
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Ten Easy Ways To Put Research And Inquiry Into Units (1/10)
This series of posts presents ten simple ways you can adjust your units, or parts of your units, to develop students’ research skills and competencies, which you can adapt to suit your particular context.