Results for: design for change
Turnitin setting changes to improve student academic writing
All students enabled to view their similarity report by default from S2, 2021
Assessment policy brief: changes to group assessment weighting in a unit
Policy changes include a shift from applying weighting limits on group marking from the task level to the unit level
Kindness as push-back and designing for care
Dr Charlotte Overgaard and Dr Jacqueline Mackaway are on a mission to promote kindness as a teaching practice.
Learning design that fosters student engagement and autonomy
Leveraging the affordances of technology readily available in iLearn, a team of Convenors and Lecturers on a Linguistics Unit, developed a series of tasks to simulate the face-to-face experience of micro-teaching. The learning design changes had numerous positive outcomes, including...
“How do you change their mind?” Dame Jane Goodall
When Dame Jane Goodall visited Macquarie University on the occasion of speaking on the Compassionate Leadership and Effective Advocacy day, I was fortunate to see her in action. Her work was groundbreaking, not only for deepening our understanding of primates,...
Design, Develop, Implement (DDI)
What is DDI? As universities seek to refresh their courses in order to deliver a curriculum that is responsive to the evolving nature and needs of the community, the process of curriculum renewal itself has become an increasingly researched topic. One such methodology for curriculum renewal – Design, Develop, Implement...
Exchanges are not just for students!
Macquarie has an amazing Staff exchange program for professional staff and I was lucky enough to be part of it.
eLearning in Germany Through The Eyes Of A Macquarie University Learning Designer (Part 2)
I recently went on a staff exchange to Germany at Potsdam and Hamburg Universities via the Macquarie International 2017 Staff Exchange program.
eLearning in Germany Through The Eyes Of A Macquarie University Learning Designer
I recently went on a staff exchange to Germany at Potsdam and Hamburg Universities via the Macquarie International 2017 Staff Exchange program.