Joy Nguyen and Carmen Vallis at the University of Sydney Business School (Source: Joy Nguyen) How do educational design patterns cross borders? A collaboration between educational researchers from the University of Sydney, Australia and Hanoi University of Science and Technology in Vietnam set out to answer this question. This international collaboration began as an approachContinue reading “Design Patterns Crossing Borders”
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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 isContinue reading “Developing Learning Skills through Multi-Part Assessment”
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.