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Design Thinking Differently
Do you practice design thinking? Do you teach it? What Is Design Thinking? This is a big question that many design experts have already written about. You can find a general overview in this blog post: What is Design Thinking and Why Is It So Popular? Here we talk about introductory design thinking for business in higher education. Why Do It? Design thinking is now…
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Emotional highs: 5 ways to meaningfully engage university students
In early childhood, learning is often perceived with great joy and excitement. Children passionately talk about what they learned and demonstrate an intrinsic satisfaction to find things out. However, when they become older, many gradually lose their sense of intrinsic excitement to engage with learning. Some explain this phenomenon in relation to the increasing responsibilities…
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The impact of COVID-19 on short-term study tours
Background COVID-19 has changed how we understand short-term study tours for virtual, online, and face-to-face delivery modes. Face-to-face (in-country) short-term mobility, as part of internationalizing the curriculum, was a normal part of student’s degree choices pre- COVID-19. However, in many situations, and due to the global pandemic, travel restrictions are now preventing face-to-face (in-country) mobility…
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Re-energised Teaching
The COVID-19 pandemic forced us all to transition to remote online teaching and learning. Our research project involved conducting surveys and interviews throughout 2020 with educators and students from the Accounting and Business Information Systems disciplines to better understand this transition. Looking back what has been the experience of educators and students and where to…
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Evaluation for Learning
Evaluation is a loaded term. Some see it solely from a judgment perspective and disdain the process. Others see it from a learning perspective and welcome it. Evaluation comes in all shapes and sizes. Depending on our approach, and perhaps shaped by our disciplinary perspectives, we tend to determine how and whether (if at all)…
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Building Authentic Assessment
Why is authentic assessment important and what perceptions do students have of it? The notion of authentic assessment was first introduced in the 1980’s in an effort to shift away from standardised testing. Remember the multiple choice tests where you would colour in a red circle (A, B, C, or D) with a 2B pencil?…
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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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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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Learning Design, Student Choice
How to design engaging online environments where students choose activities and their own path through learning? This is what our team set out to discover, well before COVID-19 and lockdown hit higher education. If you’ve used Canvas before, you’ll know that it is structured in a modular, sequential way. That structure is sometimes limiting. Students rarely start at the same point and progress in a linear way from learning outcomes to a teacher-defined…
