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Incorporating Generative AI in Authentic Assessments
The emerging use of generative AI has led to concerns about academic integrity (AAIN, 2023). However, instead of bemoaning its use, we argue that in business education, integrating generative AI can provide insightful and practical ways for our students to demonstrate their abilities and contributions to business in ways a machine cannot. Our recent experiences in…
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Dreaming the Future: The Role of Speculative Fiction in Shaping Education – Part 2
In Part 1 of this post we considered how speculative fiction might help us to imagine and move towards our preferred educational futures. This year, the Postdigital Science and Education journal published a collection of speculative vignettes, or ‘education fictions’ (Hrastinski & Jandrić, 2023). Three of these were written by academics in the Business…
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Gamifying Hybrid Classes for Student Engagement
Hybrid classes may have increased in quantity but not quality post Covid-19 Before the Covid-19 pandemic, some of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) literature discussed a move to hybrid classes, however this was not a very common research concern (Bates, 2019). Post-Covid, discussion of teaching and learning in hybrid modes has grown rapidly.…
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Passionate Higher Education Researchers gather at HERDSA 2023
In early July, on the banks of the Brisbane River, over 500 higher education scholars from around the world gathered to share research and wisdom about how best to support our students’ education at the Higher Education Research & Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) conference. World-renowned researchers mixed with first time presenters and PhD students.…
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Individualised authentic assessments: Stress-tested in critical times
With the sudden closure of face-to-face teaching with COVID-19 in early 2020 … there was mayhem as universities around the world suddenly and unexpectedly went fully online. Sangster et al (2020) documented this well for accounting subjects. Educators and students alike felt stressed, isolated, unsupported and mourned the loss of their sense of community. Planned…
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Exploring Innovations and Inclusion in Assessment Practices
The Assessment in Higher Education conference leads the development of assessment for learning in higher education and ran for two days last week in Manchester UK. With around 300 delegates from across the globe this is one of the biggest dedicated international conferences for assessment and feedback. I presented our project on designing quality online…
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Dreaming the Future: The Role of Speculative Fiction in Shaping Education – Part 1
How might speculative fiction help us to imagine and move towards our preferred educational futures? In Part 1 of this blog post we look at the ‘what, why and how’ of speculative fiction.
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Research in the backyard: Integrating research & evaluation to (re)shape Business Education
The University of Sydney Business School’s: Disruptive Innovations in Business Education Research Group (DI BERG) mission is to “interrogate the future of business education and how the forces that shape the role and focus of Business Schools influences how we design for a better education”. This blog will show how targeted program evaluation data can…
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Educational design – inclusive by nature
A BCD design pattern is mapped to universal design for learning principles to demonstrate that good education design is often naturally inclusive.
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The Joy of Learning & Teaching – Part 2
This week marks the completion of our 5th annual Learning and Teaching Forum at the University of Sydney Business School. Our theme this year was, as our title states, the joy of learning and teaching. And what a joyous occasion it was. Playful learning After a very heartfelt welcome to country by Aunty Joan Bell…
