Last week I spent time at Victoria University’s new India campus in Delhi, delivering professional learning for colleagues who will be teaching there. While my visit was focused on learning and teaching, being in a new university environment made me think further beyond the purpose of my time there. I […]
Assessment & Feedback - Innovation & Future of Higher Education - Student Learning & Engagement
If Assessment Ends at the Grade, What Was It For?
In higher education, students often complete an assessment, submit it, receive a grade, and then move on. Academics evaluate and mark the work, offer feedback, and focus on the next task. The assessment has effectively fulfilled its purpose: generating evidence, informing judgments, and contributing to the final results. But has […]
Academic Identity & Professional Learning - Reflections & Provocations - Student Learning & Engagement - Teaching Practice
If Every Class Looks the Same, Are We Really Teaching?
During professional learning sessions with university educators, a familiar phrase keeps coming up: “We have to deliver the content.” It often surfaces when staff describe teaching a unit designed by someone else, especially when the slides, activities, resources and weekly sequence have already been prepared. For sessional educators and less […]
Innovation & Future of Higher Education - Reflections & Provocations - Student Learning & Engagement
Is the Unit Still the Building Block of Higher Education?
For generations, the unit has been the fundamental building block of higher education. It structures curriculum, determines credit, organises teaching, and provides the framework through which students progress towards a qualification. Whether a university teaches in semesters, trimesters, intensive modes, or blocks, the unit remains the common currency of learning. […]
Innovation & Future of Higher Education - Student Learning & Engagement
The Growing Accessibility of VR Cinema and Virtual Environments in Education
A Technology Whose Time May Finally Have Arrived Imagine taking students to Ancient Rome in the morning, visiting a hospital ward after lunch, and exploring a future city shaped by climate adaptation before the end. For many educators, these experiences once seemed unfeasible. However, advancements in technology, such as 360-degree […]