Category: Pedagogical Approaches
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Enhancing healthcare through a multicultural and interdisciplinary collaboration in education
Zahra Aziz and Lilani Arulkadacham reflect on a multicultural and interdisciplinary educational collaboration for improved patient outcomes. Culturally responsive and collaborative healthcare practice requires flexible and collaborative educational approaches. One method is through Collaborative Online International Learning.
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Teams@Monash: Co-designing Teamwork Education across Monash
Martijn van der Kamp and Caroline Sanz-Veitch reflect on how the initiative “Teams@Monash” contributes to teamwork education and practices across Monash. They explain its objectives, co-design approach, and findings, and propose an agenda towards making Monash the most collaborative university.
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Engaging and empowering students in collaborative partnerships to enhance effective learning
Weeming Lau reflects on students’ contributions in co-creating high quality case scenarios for peer learning and the importance of educator being the guide on the side rather than the sage on the stage.
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Collaborative researchers for tomorrow: Research, Experimentation and Discovery
Troy McGee and Mick Storr on fostering collaborative research for global challenges and educating students for interdisciplinary success.
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Educators’ professional knowledge from a pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) perspective
Mahbub Sarkar introduces the crucial concept of Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) for university educators and explores its application and benefits in higher education.
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Traditional law assessments, accreditation requirements, and authentic assessment: a solvable conundrum?
Traditional law assessments have their place, and facilitate compliance with accreditation requirements. But do they preclude authentic assessment? Associate Professor Ben Hayward suggests no: read the full blog post to find out more.
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The Pitch
Tim Fawns discusses ‘The Pitch’: an event at Monash that celebrates educational innovation, where teams present their ideas to a panel of judges. The event is aimed at fostering collaboration, community, and inspiration among educators, while providing essential funding for transformative projects.
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Compassion in accounting: A path to more sustainable futures?
Lisa Powell integrates ethics, compassion, and environmental awareness into accounting education, promoting an ethical profession and sustainability.
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Develop skills or outsource to generative AI?
Estelle Wallingford considers the challenges of generative artificial intelligence on traditional assessment design and reflects on questions that educators might need to answer to ensure students develop essential skills to make the best use of the technology.
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Reflections on enticing students to reflect – walking a pedagogical tightrope
Karen Shelley reflects on the dynamic tension between teaching strategies that help us achieve our educational and social change goals and the need to develop students who are creative and critical thinkers.