Higher Education Whisperer

Dr Anish Purkayastha, USyd Purkayastha and Huber investigated what makes undergraduate management students successful at an Australian univ...

Employability has always been an important part of university education. The idea that students enrolled to explore the miseries of the univ...

Along with many university staff, I have been invited to be part of developing a Learning and Teaching Strategy. This is an issue exercising...

The University of Newcastle is providing a free 20 hour course for teachers " Aspirations: Supporting Students’ Futures " to teach...

I had a very compelling unplanned lesson in accessibility today. In a Zoom session, we were asked to watch a video. Rather than play the vi...

Last week I spent many hours preparing for the tutor training course I am a student in this week. I went through the materials for the week,...

As part of teacher training I am required to undertake some unconscious bias tests. This is to allow the teacher to realise they may have bi...

As part of tutor training, I have been asked to undertake the Johari window exercise . With this the subject first picks keywords from a lis...

Fox   (1983)   suggests four ways to think about teaching: transfer,  shaping, travelling, and building. The first is bout transferring know...

Louis Deslauriers,  Harvard University Deslauriers et a l. (2019) have identified a curious problem for keen teachers: if you have students ...

At the start of a new year I am learning a little more about teaching. This is not by choice, it is compulsory tutor training. But it is yea...

Mr Andrew Laming MP , Chair of the Committee. The Australian Parliament is looking into the impact of COVID-19 on learning , as part o...

In a recent article by Stephanie Garoni and Jo Lampert  asks if school teachers and their educators are ready for the effec...

Mr Andrew Laming MP , Chair of the Committee. The Australian Parliament is looking into the impact of COVID-19 on learning , as part of...

Athabasca University sent out a request to alumni for short articles on how study had changed their lives. So I quickly wrote " Re...

Professor Julian Sefton-Green asks " Will mass schooling-at-home lead to the death of schools? " in EduResearch Matters (13 ...

The Australian National University is looking for a " Team Leader, Staff Education ", to plan and deliver professional development...

Staff at the Australian National University (ANU) have developed a free Community Trauma Toolkit , to help with mental health in disasters....

I was asked to help with training of university tutors for computer science and engineering. So I looked at some of the training materials ...

For some years I have been considering the question of how to improve the quality of teaching at universities. One obvious way is to have ac...