Welcome
Monash University’s teaching and learning blog is a dynamic platform dedicated to fostering a community of practice. Here, academic and professional staff come together to explore, discuss, and debate ideas and issues pertaining to teaching and learning in higher education.
Together, we’ll share innovative strategies, celebrate our successes, and reflect on our challenges. With your valuable contributions, we will build an even stronger network of practitioners extending across Monash’s diverse physical locations, as we collectively strive for excellence in education.
Join me in creating a space that celebrates diverse approaches to teaching and learning.
Associate Professor Tim Fawns (Monash Education Academy)
Recent posts
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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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Why do some students struggle to learn online, and how can we support them?
Paula de Barba explores what it means to engage students in their learning journey and how educational technology can help.
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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.
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But Harvard did a study on it!: How do we define ‘evidence-based practice’ within education?
Michelle Lazarus reflects on how we define teaching and learning expertise, and to what extent we can and should value experiences from those external to our local, complex educational system.
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Applied teaching and learning with adaptive simulation using ChatGPT and some coding
Joel Moore explores the application of generative artificial intelligence in the design of adaptive simulations to create rich learning experiences for students at Monash.
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Welcome, and thanks for joining us
Tim Fawns reveals the motivations of this blog and encourages you to connect, collaborate and contribute to the conversation.