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Developing a Typology of Online Business Education Designs
Many universities had to pivot their teaching into an online space in response to the COVID-19 health crisis in 2020. In fact they may have had to repeat this pivot again and again depending on their location. How can we leverage the lessons learned from our design and redesign of these spaces to provide superior…
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Learning Design for Statistics
How do you produce thorough, engaging online modules for a first-year introductory statistics unit? Planning and a shared approach helps, as does a considered approach to technology. Introduction BUSS1020 Quantitative Business Analysis is a core first year unit, offered in the University of Sydney Business School’s, Business Analytics discipline – delivered across 13 weeks. These…
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What Language Problem?
Teaching International Financial Reporting Standards to International Students Do you sense that your students don’t understand what you’re saying? Do you sometimes struggle to understand what your students are saying? If the answers to both these questions are yes, a language barrier may exist. The language barrier may be due to both the technical vocabulary…
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Student Social Isolation and University Life
Most students experience various forms of isolation during their studies. This can be a more or less persistent feeling that impacts students’ wellbeing and/or their capacity to fulfil their study potential. Whether the causes are academic, environmental, socio-cultural or health related, social isolation can be remedied at the point of crisis or as a preventative…
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Media Internship Program (Past, Present, Future)
The Business Co-Design (BCD) team have developed a media internship program to ensure ‘student voice’ is at the heart of what we do, and how we do it. It is also designed to provide valuable production experience to emerging media makers. The program developed from a small cohort of students who were employed in 2019…
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Eight Tips for Academics Using Learning Analytics
Can learner data help inform your teaching? It can, but there a few things to consider when planning your learning analytics strategy. Learning is a complex process that takes place on a scale from milliseconds to years, as suggested by Reimann. Now educators can use learning analytics to help build a bigger picture of learning.…
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We Are in Business, Join Us
Welcome to our blog, part of the work of the University of Sydney’s Business Co-Design Research Group (CDRG). Our aim is to inform discourse and debate about key issues impacting business education and student experience. We welcome your ideas as higher education practitioners, researchers, and thought leaders. Here we share and debate the latest research,…
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Contemporary University Teaching – Networked and Supported
Dr Lilia Mantai and A/Prof Elaine Huber talk to us about a research project they conducted at Sydney University Business School on experiential learning in large classes. Lilia is the Academic Lead, course enhancement at the Business School and Elaine is the Academic Director of the Business Co-Design team. What motivated you to pursue this…
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Giving Voice to Stakeholders in Learning Analytics Design
With the rapid growth of Learning Analytics as an applied research field and commercial market, we’re also seeing systems failing to make the impact hoped for. Not surprisingly, it turns out that data scientists and programmers don’t necessarily understand educators’ and learners’ needs, or how they will use software. This sparked a growing recognition that…
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Designing Your Lecture for the 2021 World (and Beyond)
The move to online learning and the subsequent impacts of our opportunities to teach at scale in large rooms has seen many academics rethinking the nature of the lecture. Lectures have moved from the physical to the virtual, with a camera on a tripod replacing the lectern and gallery view replacing the faces of people…
