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Higher Education – and Business Education – at the centre of global challenges
Academic conferences are important and unique opportunities for scholars to stress-test works in a collegial, creative, and critical spaces. I reflect on two works I have recently presented at the 35th Annual Consortium of Higher Education Research (CHER) Conference and the British Academy of Management (BAM) Conference. Action research in Higher Education The first paper…
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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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Connecting the Management Education Community: MOBTS Oceania
MOBTS, now in its 50th year, is a global learning society and conference focused on enhancing teaching and learning in management and organisational behaviour disciplines. MOBTS Oceania recently brought together management educators from across and beyond the region to share practice, challenges, opportunities and innovations. The conference was held on Bedegel land and hosted by…
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Together again – ASCILITE 2022
The audience reacted immediately, a huge collective gasp of horror. What could have provoked such a visceral response? This is what the presenter said: So I asked the academic what the problem was with mapping the assessment to the learning outcomes. And the academic replied, “Oh, I really only see learning outcomes as advisory…” The…
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Connecting with students through humour
How can we connect with our students when we don’t see them? We decided to try humour. As passionate and energetic educators, we believe that fostering connections with our students is just as essential to their learning experience as providing honest feedback. Yet building connections with students online is an ongoing challenge as Zoom and…
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Dynamic Pictures to Support Learning in Business Analytics
The recent move to online learning prompted academics teaching business analytics to find ways of explaining concepts that maintained some of the advantages of face-to-face teaching and learning. This included inventive ways of rigging up iPads and WACOM tablets to serve as digital whiteboards – to demonstrate analytical tools or to step through or annotate…
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What do we mean when we talk about scale? Towards a definition of ‘at scale’ in higher education – part 2
Designing and delivering education at scale effectively is a challenge faced by many higher education institutions (Kagan & Diamond, 2019). This challenge is both an economic one, where the costs of magnifying and multiplying education offerings needs to be matched and exceeded by the revenue, and a pedagogical one, ensuring the quality of the teaching…
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Rapport through a laptop? Benefits and drawbacks of online interviews
In this post, two researchers share their reflections on conducting interviews and focus groups online during a global pandemic for a large strategic educational project (CLaS). Both had previously conducted face-to-face interviews, which involved finding a suitable meeting room, printing information statements and consent forms, and making sure their trusty audio recorders were fully charged.…
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A Musical Lens on Hybrid Learning
What does music have to do with education? And how might it help us come up with new approaches to thinking about our practice as teachers? While they may look a little different in practice, music and education have many parameters in common. These include duration, pace, dynamics, silence, proximity and gesture, to name a…
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We Are in Business, Join Us
Welcome to our blog, part of the work of the University of Sydney’s Business Co-Design Research Group (CDRG). Our aim is to inform discourse and debate about key issues impacting business education and student experience. We welcome your ideas as higher education practitioners, researchers, and thought leaders. Here we share and debate the latest research,…
