Course: Introduction to Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

This week we look at teaching strategies for different contexts. Watch the video below, where UNSW teaching staff were asked these questions: What do you think is the value of …

“A good university teacher ensures that students have a thorough understanding of fundamental concepts, if necessary at the expense of covering excessive content” (Kember & McNaught, 2007, p. 158). What’s …

In this course we have already established there is no one ‘right’ way to teach. This also applies to tutorials, there isn’t just one way to facilitate a tutorial. A …

In Step 2.2, we introduced you to three levels of teaching: Level 1 – What the student is Level 2 – What the teacher does Level 3 – What the …

Refer back to the good teaching qualities you prioritised in Step 2.1. In this step you will hear teachers at UNSW talk about the principles that form the basis of …

‘Good teaching and good learning are linked through the student’s experience of what we do. It follows that we cannot teach better unless we are able to see what we …

In Week 1 we looked at student approaches to learning. This week we focus on teaching. Good teaching practice has a major influence on student learning. Teachers strive to achieve …

Week 1 Summary and reflection In Our students, our learners there were comments on the increasing diversity among student populations in your institutions and the support mechanisms (or lack of) …

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest. (Confucius) Today the …

The best place to start is by asking your fellow participants by posting a question on the relevant course step. FutureLearn is a social learning platform so we encourage you …

Good teachers understand learning, what it takes to learn, and how to encourage and support deep approaches to learning. Understanding the qualitatively different ways students interpret and undertake tasks has …

We start this course by looking at student approaches to learning but first we would like to find out something about the students that you work with in your context. …

There has been a lot of research into students’ ideas of, and approaches to, learning. One approach is that students think about learning in six qualitatively different ways: An increase …

Why are we asking you to take a reflective approach to your practice and develop an ePortfolio in this program? Reflective practice has an important role to play in student …