Course: Introduction to Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

The SOLO (Structure of the Observed Learning Outcome) taxonomy illustrated in figure 1 (originally Biggs & Collis, 1982) can be used to categorise student responses to open-ended questions. The rubric …

This is the second of two activities for this course, Introduction to Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, which you need to record in your ePortfolio. You can refer to …

Peer review is important because it enables the process of evaluation in the learning process. It is a familiar process for academics who are actively publishing research papers and applying …

We hope you have enjoyed participating in the first course in the FULT Program and found it beneficial to your professional practice. The last thing we ask you do before …

Week 2 Summary and reflection Week 2 of the course encouraged you to focus on writing good learning outcomes, exploring technologies which you could use in your teaching and learn …

We talked to students at UNSW across a range of disciplines and years and asked them about their experiences of assessment in their faculties. Watch the video and listen to …

As students engage as active learners, and academics engage in teaching and research, we assume that everyone will act with academic integrity. This concept is closely aligned with assessment. In …

We talked to students at UNSW across a range of disciplines and years and asked them about their experiences of assessment in their faculties. Watch the video and listen to …

With higher educational institutions experiencing increased class sizes over the last few decades, opportunities to provide ongoing personalised high quality feedback have decreased. Moves to blended, online and flipped classroom …

Learners do not always learn what is taught. That is why the most important assessment does not happen at the end of learning, it happens during the learning, when there …

Listen to teaching staff at UNSW talk about their experiences with blended learning. Talking point Consider the many strategies they talk about Identify a strategy that is new to you …

Good online learning depends, among other things, on good online teaching. In 2001, as online learning was gathering widespread acceptance, a team of experts comprised a report offering a list …

Summary and reflection Week 2 of the course encouraged you to focus on writing good learning outcomes, exploring technologies which you could use in your teaching and learn about some …

In Week 3 of the course we focus on pedagogical issues in learning and teaching. We start with blended and online learning as different modes of teaching. No matter what …

In Week 1 of this course we looked at student approaches to learning and listened to teachers talking about student-centred approaches to teaching. A large majority of university teaching still …