Category: Pedagogical Approaches
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Redesigning the Teaching Excellence Program: Supporting professional development for teaching excellence
Mahbub and Tim reflect on the redesigned Teaching Excellence Program (TEP) at Monash. The program’s ambitious new design aims to offer participants more choice, deeper engagement with their teaching, and stronger peer connections. However, they acknowledge that they are still exploring how these changes will take shape in practice.
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AI and entrapment: A cautionary tale
Sandra Leonie Field reflects on the integration of AI in education. While AI tools can assist students in summarising readings and drafting essays, her recent experience reveals a more complex reality.
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Commitment to relationship-based education
Zala writes about how crucial it is to build on solidarity and educate in ways that develop compassion, care, curiosity, and courage in our students. The role of community building we have as university educators, she argues, is increasingly important as a means of countering technological tendencies that contribute to fragmentation and polarisation.
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What if academic feedback were treated like an exercise workout?
Filippe draws parallels between coaching athletes and teaching students, focusing on feedback. By comparing the phases of exercise, educators can refine feedback practices and foster active learning, with a focus on personal growth.
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Building effective collaboration: learning designers and academics partnering for educational excellence
Michael Lin offers suggestions for collaboration with academics, based on experience from multiple collaborative projects in various disciplines, from the perspective of a learning designer.
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Using video to enhance online engagement
Hunter Hammond gives thought to the factors that go into making an online learning environment successful and offers three main things to consider when producing video.
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Responding to acute and chronic challenges of AI in Higher Education
Tim Fawns, Danny Liu and Jason Lodge discuss issues institutions face in responding to TEQSA’s Request for Information (RFI) on Artificial Intelligence, and opportunities and challenges for higher education.
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How much teaching is too much teaching?
Russ Fox reflects on what it means to be a teacher and how teaching approaches may need to change in response to the expertise of the student.
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Boosting students’ global competence through virtual exchange
Nadine Normand-Marconnet, Jeremy Breaden, Thu Do and Lucas Santos reflect on their experiences of designing and delivering a virtual exchange program for students.
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Students prepared for class: The Perusall effect!
Glen Croy and Tristan Cui describe how, when faced with students’ limited preparation, they adopted Perusall. With a small reward, 90-percent of students attempted preparation each week, with high comprehension. There were very positive consequences for classes, and higher-order assignments.
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Join the conversations about productive Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to use for teaching and learning
Nilushi Karunaratne, Tom Morgan and Ari Seligmann kick-off discussions about AI tools and exploring the possibilities for higher education.
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Positioning Artificial Intelligence (AI) in assessments may seem hard but here are some ways to start the journey
Thao Vu, Zachari Swiecki and Ari Seligmann introduce recent efforts by the Monash AI in Education Learning Circle to share guidance on thinking through how to design AI into or out of assessments as we figure out how to adjust assessment practices to navigate the storm of contemporary emerging technologies.