By: Anton de Bruyn
At this year’s Learn Do Share, staff from across the University of Auckland came together to share how they’ve taken Canvas, the University’s Learning Management System, to the next level in blending pedagogy and technology.
By: Angela Tsai
In this month’s ILT seminar, I shared my experiences with helping students overcome learning barriers by using existing revision MCQs as a primary resource.
By: Dr Kathleen Foote
Teaching spaces are fast changing to accommodate new approaches to curriculum and pedagogical advances. Separate lab, lecture, and tutorial spaces are increasingly being combined to promote active and collaborative learning in a streamlined approach.
By: Angela Tsai
Love them or hate them, multiple choice questions (MCQs) are still one of the most commonly used assessment formats – and they have their advantages, if used well!
By: Lyn Collie
Canvas is rolling out across the University by Semester 1 of 2016, which means we need to get a wriggle on! The central Canvas team and the Business School are providing a variety of support and training over this semester, to ensure that every course running next semester is successfully set up in our upgraded learning management system.
By: Tessa Owens
There is pleasure and fear associated with a blank canvas. We’re free to do what we want, to start afresh and (one hopes) create a thing of beauty. Alternatively, we fear a blank canvas – what if our efforts fail and we just end up with a big mess and a lot of wasted paint and effort? The fear and pleasure associated with newness is no doubt what many of us will experience in the coming months as we move over to Canvas, the new Learning Management System (LMS) which the University of Auckland has adopted.
Would you like to enhance your students’ learning? Do you dream of enjoyable classes (for both you and your students)? Are you aiming for a 100% rating in item LS08 in your teaching evaluations? If you have answered “Yes” at least once, then Bodo Lang’s seminar on Classroom Engagement will definitely be of interest!
By: Susan Geertshuis and Prachi Malhotra
Think back to your university days – can you remember how difficult it was to get the hang of all the obscure jargon your professors used? Now imagine that there were three or four times as many unfamiliar words and that you took much longer than other people to read texts and follow instructions.
By: Ron Tiong
Are your class sizes increasing? Is your marking support limited? Are you finding it increasingly difficult to mark assessments?
By: Ross McDonald
Ethics is a notoriously slippery area of study. Weighty issues of what is “right” and “wrong” or “good” and “bad” need to be debated and for many students and teachers alike this is a significant challenge.