Multimodal Engagement
Learning with For the longest time I was under the impression that there were in fact different ways to learn. That our learning preferences were fixed and did not change. It made intuitive sense and I was told about this theory by someone I trusted so I never questioned it. However, when I first say…
Social Reading to Help students engage
Perusall – a social reading platform How many of us read a meeting agenda and submitted material before the meeting at every meeting. To be honest, I do when it’s important, or when I am leading the meeting. However, for most regular meetings I do not always read the material and to be honest, I…
Gaming for People with Disability
Project-Based Learning – Gaming for Disability A while back I wrote an article about gaming for kids with cerebral palsy. That was the start of a new journey, which spurred on a Not-for-Profit company that aims to help provide assistive devices for people with disabilities. This year I incorporated this into the bachelors capstone projects…
Viva Voce in the Digital Era
Reinventing Oral Examinations for Modern Education My first experience with Viva Voce was when I was in the 3rd year of my bachelors degree. I remember it as being challenging preparing for it but when I was Infront of my examiners, it was not as difficult as I had to explain what I was thinking.…
Organising and Managing Teams
Biosystems Design 2023 When I first started to teach teamwork-based subjects the biggest complaints were about teamwork. In the first year, I attempted to assign students to their teams. As it turned out I had lots of complaints with students saying, ‘I would have done better If I got to choose my team’. The second…
The joy of working together and in person
Biosystems Design 2022 Semester 2 of 2022, was the first time this class ran in-person and on campus and it was refreshing. It was great to see the student’s faces and interact, talk make jokes and respond to facial expressions. But along with it returned the challenges of teamwork. I’ve heard it said many times…
Bioinstrumentation 2023
It is truly incredible to witness the transformation of students’ confidence throughout their project journey. From their initial hesitation to the final presentation, their growth is astonishing. It’s a testament to their hard work, and dedication, as well as the support they receive from their peers as well as the dedicated teaching team of demonstrators…
Bioinstrumentation 2022
Subject Overview Of all the subjects and semesters I have taught, this was my most enjoyable semester yet. I was amazed as how receptive the class was to the new mode of teaching. Bioinstrumentations is all about how to build electronics that interface with the body. The subject was taught in a blended synchronous mode,…
Reflections on EDUC90970, Facilitating Online Learning
The covid-19 pandemic forced the lockdown of entire countries moved any activities that could be done without physical access into the online domain. Teaching was one of the first to move online from primary schools through to universities. Despite significant prior opposition to moving traditional campus-based teaching online, nearly everyone was forced to migrate teaching…
Problem Based Learning – What do we assess?
In the last post I looked at what is problem-based learning and how it is applied. This time I wanted to look at a case study of a success story of problem-based learning at the University of Melbourne. The focus of this case study is a postgraduate subject at the University of Melbourne. It is…
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