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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We Need to Talk: Interactive Oral Assessments in Business Education
Designing assessments that assure learning in the age of AI is a challenge. How can we assess learning and be sure that students have achieved the learning outcomes we say they have? Interactive Oral assessments (IOs) gained attention during the COVID-19 lockdowns as an alternative to on-campus exams (Logan et al., 2020) and is nowContinue reading “We Need to Talk: Interactive Oral Assessments in Business Education”
Nomadic analysis of belonging
A strong sense of student belonging is often emphasised as essential to higher education. This emphasis is often supported by the positive relationship between belonging and student perceptions of quality (Bridgeman, 2019; MIT Teaching + Learning Lab, 2023). Building on the previous blog Belonging & Learning (Menner, 2023), we aim to discuss alternative concepts toContinue reading “Nomadic analysis of belonging”
Students Fuel Co-design Research
All my friends are surprised that I’m a student researcher at the Business School—they thought I was working on my PhD. My PhD focuses on student cooperation and use of Chinese social media during the pandemic. It explores how students supported each other, their response to the government’s call to action, their digital interaction andContinue reading “Students Fuel Co-design Research”
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 theContinue reading “Co-design practices in innovative education projects in higher education”
Navigating the dissonances of authenticity in assessment: (Re)defining authentic assessment in business education (part 3)
It is critical to (re)define authentic assessment in part because assessment in higher education is deeply broken (as we have discussed in parts 1 and 2 of this blog). The internecine tensions between the assurance and pedagogical aims of assessment have exerted so much stress on the frameworks and foundations of our practice. The result is that the emotionalContinue reading “Navigating the dissonances of authenticity in assessment: (Re)defining authentic assessment in business education (part 3)”
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 canContinue reading “Research in the backyard: Integrating research & evaluation to (re)shape Business Education”
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.
Working Together: The Benefits of Providing Choice in Topic Selection
In recent years, there has been a shift in the educational landscape towards a more student-centered approach to learning. This means that educators are increasingly looking for ways to involve students in the design and delivery of their own education. One way to do this is through student-staff partnerships (Felten et al., 2014), where studentsContinue reading “Working Together: The Benefits of Providing Choice in Topic Selection”
Unleashing your inner co-design pirate to find buried treasure
Q: How do you know you’re a pirate? A: You just know you RRRR Collaboratively developing a course over several semesters can be an arduous process. Sometimes we need constructive fun to push the development process to the next level. As echoed in the title of an upcoming University of Sydney Business Schools Learning &Continue reading “Unleashing your inner co-design pirate to find buried treasure”