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Nomadic analysis of belonging
A strong sense of student belonging is often emphasised as essential to higher education. This emphasis is often supported by the positive relationship between belonging and student perceptions of quality (Bridgeman, 2019; MIT Teaching + Learning Lab, 2023). Building on the previous blog Belonging & Learning (Menner, 2023), we aim to discuss alternative concepts to…
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Enhancing Online Learning: Insights from a Comparative Analysis of Design and Student Experience
As educators, we strive to create learning experiences that not only impart knowledge but truly engage and resonate with our students. This challenge becomes even more pronounced in the realm of online education, where many pedagogical frameworks and design principles have been developed to address these issues. However, it remains unclear whether online courses that…
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Excel – a new way to join the dots
Professional judgement is hard! How do students learn to make complex professional judgements? The complex professional judgements required of accountants and other business professionals contain many sub-decision points. Critical thinking is a central component of accounting and business higher education curriculum (Coupe et al., 2023; Bryant, 2023). In the 3rd-year unit, ACCT3011 Reporting on Business…
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Improving Business Placement Learning at Scale
Individual, in-person placement is one of the most popular work-based learning types, that occur “within [the] curriculum…under the supervision of professionals” (Moore et al. 2015, p.242) and is often known as work-integrated learning (WIL). This WIL model appears throughout the Australian higher education sector and internationally. However, placement models are difficult to evaluate and upscale.…
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Students Fuel Co-design Research
All my friends are surprised that I’m a student researcher at the Business School—they thought I was working on my PhD. My PhD focuses on student cooperation and use of Chinese social media during the pandemic. It explores how students supported each other, their response to the government’s call to action, their digital interaction and…
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Helping Students Overcome Social Isolation at University
Have you heard about the recently passed Higher Education Support Amendment Bill 2023? It aims to ensure that students have appropriate support, particularly those from underrepresented groups in higher education. For that reason, educators are putting support for students at the centre through early assessment, feedback and personalised communications. It’s also helpful to understand how…
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Developing an institutional WIL framework
The University of Notre Dame, Australia is a small Catholic university with three campuses (Fremantle, Sydney, Broome). It will implement a Work Integrated Learning (WIL) framework that will apply to the whole institution from 2024. I interviewed Associate Professor Kathie Ardzejewska from the Curriculum and Quality team in Fremantle on developing the framework. Internal drivers…
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Enhancing Student Engagement with Early Feedback
Joint authors: Terry Wickenham and Joanne Nash Students disengaging from course content is a major concern for educators. At the University of Sydney Business School (USBS), personalised emails were used to intervene and connect with students who were not engaging with the content of BUSS2000 Leading and Influencing in Business. We thought of it as…
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Reflecting on Reflection in Entrepreneurship using EdTech
Recent years have seen an increased emphasis on reflective learning in higher education, and a corresponding incorporation of reflective learning assessments into coursework at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Reflecting as an entrepreneur A practical question for educators is, how can we scaffold reflective learning in our teaching to help students develop their reflective competencies,…
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Innovative. Responsible. Sustainable: Creating an authentic innovation experience for Dalyell program students
The University of Sydney offers high achieving students enrichment units, mentoring, and development opportunities through the Dalyell Scholars program. The Business School’s program “aims to nurture future leaders ready to create innovative solutions to disrupt the world for good”. In recent years there have been strong calls from industry to develop innovation skills and capabilities…
