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Enhancing Online Learning: Insights from a Comparative Analysis of Design and Student Experience
As educators, we strive to create learning experiences that not only impart knowledge but truly engage and resonate with our students. This challenge becomes even more pronounced in the realm of online education, where many pedagogical frameworks and design principles have been developed to address these issues. However, it remains unclear whether online courses that…
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Breakout Warrior: Engaging Online Learners in Ways Not Possible In-Person
Many would agree that the most effective online teachers leverage technology to enhance their teaching methods rather than simply attempting to replicate in-person instruction. We learnt quickly that remote learners tend to be more engaged when the technology supports interactivity and fosters creativity. In this post, business academic Terry Wickenden reflects on four strategies he…
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What do we mean when we talk about scale? Towards a definition of ‘at scale’ in higher education – part 1
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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Hybrid teaching workshops: upskilling educators to deliver hybrid classes
The challenge The Covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally challenged teaching and learning practices in higher education. In early 2020, the University of Sydney Business School joined many other institutions in rapidly pivoting to online teaching in response to social distancing requirements. While online and blended delivery modes were practised pre-pandemic, more traditional face-to-face teaching methods were…
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Accessing accessibility
The word ‘accessibility’ comes up all the time in education. But do we understand how to successfully integrate accessibility into the courses we are building and delivering, especially with more and more teaching online? I sat down with Associate Professor Jennifer Smith- Merry, Director of the Centre for Disability Research and Policy at the University…
