In this post, we share highlights from the annual conference on Learning at Scale. In addition to exploring keynote addresses by Professor Simon Buckingham-Shum and Professor Oleksandra Poquet and unveiling two collaborative work-in-progress papers presented by the authors, we offer insights into the emerging discussions and innovations that are shaping the future of learning atContinue reading “Learning at Scale conference: Reflections”
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Quality Assurance – is it just a game in the higher education sector?
What is ‘quality assurance’? Lemaitre says, “Quality assurance in higher education is a process of establishing stakeholder confidence that provision (input, processes, outcomes) fulfils expectations or measures up to threshold minimum requirements” (Lemaitre, 2018, p. 1). Generally, quality assurance in higher education is a process of ensuring that the teaching and learning process meets theContinue reading “Quality Assurance – is it just a game in the higher education sector?”
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”
Can poster assignments improve the student learning experience? Benefits for students and educators
Recent years have seen increased emphasis on developing the student learning experience in business school education. In addition to understanding how students engage with learning materials in their respective units of study, attention has turned to how students develop insights about themselves and their own personal development in the learning process (Dixon, 2022; Bovil, 2020).Continue reading “Can poster assignments improve the student learning experience? Benefits for students and educators”
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 responsibilitiesContinue reading “Emotional highs: 5 ways to meaningfully engage university students”
Teaching the Masses: Managing Large Cohorts
Enrolments at Australian universities have increased 41 per cent since 2008 (Universities Australia, 2020). Growing enrolments inevitably leads to larger cohorts and more significant pressure on academics to manage hundreds, if not thousands of students. Defining large cohorts At present, there is no consensus amongst academic literature on precisely what constitutes a large class orContinue reading “Teaching the Masses: Managing Large Cohorts”