
Transforming the Student Experience

What did you do during your sabbatical anyway?
Three days to go. I remember vividly how emotional I felt, my cold naked feet on the creaky floor of our Madrid apartment, staring at the laptop on the dining table, the window open. I…

Developing Learning Skills through through Multi-Part Assessment
British academic and author Phil Race in his excellent and straightforward guide for teaching in higher education called Making Learning Happen, declared that assessment is the most powerful lever we have to influence student behaviour.…

Adding the Affective to the Cognitive in assessment
TEQSA are about to release guidelines on assessment reform for the age of artificial intelligence. Traditional approaches to assessment were already under threat from contract cheating (Ellis et al., 2020). The advent of generative artificial…

Co-designing a Students as Partners Charter
The University of Sydney wants to activate their commitment to involve students as citizens in their own lifelong learning journey by developing a Students as Partners Charter. On Melbourne Cup day, 2023, more than seventy…

Object-Based Learning at the Business School – New connections and old memories
New connections and old memories were ignited when students from The University of Sydney Business School studying social action and leadership visited the Chau Chak Wing Museum for an Object-Based Learning (OBL) program. OBL is the…

Co-design practices in innovative education projects in higher education
‘The purpose of an educational co-design project is to design collaborative solutions, which can include designing new courses, educational tools, student experiences or curricula’. In a rapidly evolving educational landscape, higher education institutions are always…

Reimagining Peer Review
As a reviewer, you’re not just giving back; you’re expanding your own knowledge and gaining insights into what makes strong research. It can be like networking, making connections with colleagues globally. Academic research publications and…

National Students as Partners Roundtable
Students and educators from around Australia and further afield gathered at the National Students as Partners Roundtable in the last week of September, 2023. We shared experiences and ideas, tips and warnings. We heard from…
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