University Assignments: Why Students Rarely Go ‘Outside Of The Box’
Macquarie undergraduate student Aprill Miles took to the podium to deliver a keynote at the German Undergraduate Research Conference last month. For Aprill, the experience of working on her own research project has been truly transformational. It also opened her...
Program-Level Design: 10 Practical Strategies For ‘Keeping It Real’
Program-level design helps to provide students with a coherent learning pathway, and ensures what they experience is more than a ‘collection of individual units’.
(Almost) All You Need To Know About Program-Based Design
Program-based design is the next big thing at Macquarie. What is it? How and why should it be done? Dr Panos Vlachopoulos has been involved in program-based design for many years in universities in the UK, New Zealand and Australia;...
How to Cut Onions without crying: Michael Gillings on teaching
Michael's students have voted him amongst the top four lecturers in Australia for each of the past five years. Is his success just down to sheer numbers?