Spotlight on practice: Beating the COVID blues and teaching online – John Knox
His students consider him a 'knowledge master' when it comes to helping them learn online. Here, John Knox (Linguistics) shares his thoughts on what works for him when teaching online.
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...
Focus in the Zoom Room
The English Language Centre developed guidelines to promote connection and community when using Zoom with their international students.
Learning and Teaching Podcast Discussion Club
The Learning and Teaching Podcast Discussion Club is like a book club... but with podcasts!
iLearn Drop-in Clinic: S2 Recap
The iLearn Drop-in clinic has been revised this year by going fully online on Zoom and has been met with great success.
Presentation: Using Blended Synchronous Learning approaches to simultaneously teach remote and face-to-face students
Presenting an integrated framework for teaching in blended synchronous learning environments
Beginning to Teach (BTT) Program – Expressions of interest are now open
This new 12-hour program, commencing on 17 August, is designed to develop the teaching capability of those with limited or no experience of teaching.
Encourage student participation in the Student Experience Survey (SES) 2020
The results of this survey will help Macquarie University and the government to improve the student experience.
Academic Senate Top 5, July 2020
On Tuesday 21 July, Academic Senate held a 'flipped' meeting via Zoom, the final meeting for myself in the role of Chair. Here are the Top 5 items discussed at the meeting.