Higher Education Whisperer

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...

Casual teaching staff at some Australian universities are reported to be “panicking” over the implications of students who are unable to ge...

I have been a preoccupied providing advice on how to quickly provide courses for online delivery, for students who are unable to get to cla...

In teaching university tutors how to teach, perhaps the first question is why should they learn this. Tutors are unlikely to go on to a full...

In looking for materials to teach computer science and engineering tutors at ANU, I have access to the ten " Principles of Tutoring and...

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

To see if the Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) course materials could be adapted for classroom teaching, I started with the FLO F...

I came across the Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) courses, while looking for materials to teach Australian university tutors. These ...

A tutor’s guide to teaching and learning at UQ , Bath, Smith & Steel, 2019 In looking for materials to teach university tutors, I c...

In looking for material to help teach university tutors, I stumbled across the curious " Australian University Teaching & Criteria ...

How much teacher training do those teaching at university need and how should this be provided? This is a question I have been looking at si...

Before setting out to help design some new training for tutors , I thought it would be worth seeing what had been done before. A quick searc...

I have been asked to help teach engineering and computer science tutors how to tutor. But first, what is the role of the graduates of these...

I have been asked to help teach engineering and computer science tutors how to tutor. Suggestions, and contributions of syllabus, references...