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Finding your MOB(TS)
An invitation and advice on responding to the call for papers of the Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society Are you excited or intimidated by academic conferences and associated activities? What drives you: sharing research, hunting for insights and ideas, public speaking, ticking the box for AP&D and promotions, seeing new places, meeting old friends…
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When the process becomes the prize: Co-creation in management education
Higher education institutions are increasingly looking for innovative ways to develop transformative teaching experiences for students. This is due to increasing scrutiny of the efficacy of management education for today’s challenges such as economic and societal changes (Schoemaker, 2008) and a rather competitive teaching landscape in management education (Colombo, 2023). Emerging trends particularly highlight student-centred…
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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 could hear the rattle sounds of café solo plates and cups, little teaspoons stirring in the sugar (sweet is how…
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Developing Learning Skills 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. Former University of Sydney Pro-Vice Chancellor, Paul Ramsden (2003), noted that assessment is the actual curriculum. It determines what is…
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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 intelligence agents has exacerbated those challenges. TEQSA’s draft guiding principles call for assessment that allows us to form trustworthy judgements…
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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 students and staff gathered in the Susan Wakil building to begin the co-design work. We represented every Faculty and all…
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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 active integration of curated objects into the learning environment to facilitate the acquisition of cross-disciplinary knowledge and skills (Chatterjee &…
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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 on the lookout for new ways to innovate and improve. One such avenue that has been gaining traction is the…
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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 the progression of an academic career greatly depend on experts in the field who review and assess your work before…
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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 one of the luminaries in the field, keynote Professor Alison Cook-Sather, the author of Engaging Students as Partners in Learning…
