Transforming the Student Experience
Developing the reflective student-entrepreneur by integrating reflection into assessments
How can we encourage reflexivity among students, so they gain insights from their experiences? This unit utilised a novel and highly effective approach that incorporated reflection into sequenced assessments. What is true knowledge acquisition? “Yo…
Navigating the dissonances of authenticity in assessment: (Re)defining authentic assessment in business education (part 2)
As we discussed in the first part of this blog, the practices of assessment in higher education have been problematic for decades. From a student experience perspective, assessment is the root cause of significant institutional…
Learning at Scale conference: Reflections
In this post, we share highlights from the annual conference on Learning at Scale. In addition to exploring keynote addresses by Professor Simon Buckingham-Shum and Professor Oleksandra Poquet and unveiling two collaborative work-in-progress papers presented…
Navigating the dissonances of authenticity in assessment: (Re)defining authentic assessment in business education (part 1)
This three-part blog post will look at the challenges of assessment in modern universities, both in terms of defining it but also deigning and enhancing it to ensure that it can deliver both the benefits…
Meet Sara, a young student researcher at USyd
I am on the Executive Group of the Australasian Council of Undergraduate Research (ACUR Council), a not-for profit member association that promotes undergraduate research opportunities and supports universities in better supporting young research talent. Apart…
Quality Assurance – is it just a game in the higher education sector?
What is ‘quality assurance’? Lemaitre says, “Quality assurance in higher education is a process of establishing stakeholder confidence that provision (input, processes, outcomes) fulfils expectations or measures up to threshold minimum requirements” (Lemaitre, 2018, p.…
Re-connecting with my Learning Sciences Community
The 3rd Annual Meeting of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) was recently held in Montreal, Canada. For a span of five transformative days, from June 10 to 15, we embarked on a…
Enhancing learning through targeted rest breaks
Rest is increasingly recognised as important for performance, wellbeing and learning. Rest breaks can happen over a range of timespans, such as a holiday taken over many weeks, sleep overnight, a walk in nature over…
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