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What works in teaching? How short videos from academics can spread good practices

Prof. Merlin Crossley, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academic & Student Life

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A few 2022 ETP Award winners with Merlin Crossley and Peter Heslin
Pictured left to right: Merlin Crossley, Christopher Pearce, Veronica Jiang, Riza Yosia Sunindijo, Peter Heslin

Teaching News You Can Use (TNYCU) is a UNSW repository of two-minute videos outlining readily usable teaching practices for tackling the following common (online and face-to-face) teaching challenges:

  1. Assessment and feedback
  2. Building student communities
  3. Challenging and supporting students' active learning
  4. Inspiring students
  5. Leveraging student diversity
  6. Linking learning to context
  7. Supporting student wellbeing
  8. Using AI in teaching and assessment.

TNYCU was developed in 2021 by Professor Peter Heslin and our Scientia Education Academy (SEA). The videos within it emerged from an SEA Exemplary Teaching Practices Award competition designed to:

  • Unearth widely applicable, useful teaching practices for addressing those teaching challenges.
  • Provide everyone who teaches at UNSW an opportunity to share and be recognised for their most useful teaching practices in ways that may support job application, tenure, promotion, or teaching award applications.
  • Further build the teaching community at UNSW by expanding the basis for conversations about “what works” and appreciation of colleagues based on how they teach.
  • Enable submissions that won, were finalists, or earned an honourable mention in each category to be shared via this repository.

View some of the TNYCU videos

View winning videos below; with more videos becoming available each year. To view all videos from our talented educators, visit the internal repository.

2023

​Putting feedback to work

By Gee Chong Ling

This video won the 2023 ETP award in this category

Fostering a learning community in a large hybrid course

By Timothy Dobbins

This video won the 2023 ETP award in this category

Lean education framework: Fast fail and pivot

By Christopher Jackson

This video won the 2023 ETP award in this category

A weekly newsletter to keep students on track

By Nirmani Wijenayake

This video won the 2023 ETP award in this category

How getting 'under the hood' of our stories leverages diversity

By Bradley Hastings

This video won the 2023 ETP award in this category

Improve relevance and engagement of lectures by stepping outside

By Terry Ord

This video won the 2023 ETP award in this category

My mission to reduce the stigma about being confused

By Helena Pacitti

This video won the 2023 ETP award in this category

Previous winners

Automate assignment submission and grade collection​

By Tracie Barber

In this video, Tracie explains using the tool Power Automate from Microsoft can effectively and efficiently get students to submit assignments and get their marks back without having too much intervention from you.

This video won the 2022 ETP award in this category

 

The power of audio: Feedback that is fast, personalised, and useful

By Jenny Richmond

The video describes how you can use your voice to deliver more feedback in less time, in a way that is less confronting and more useful to students.

This video won the 2021 ETP award in this category

What’s your weirdest flex? Using video intros to build student communities in online classrooms

By Emma Jane

This clip explains the way asynchronous video intros can be used to foster a sense of camaraderie and common purpose in online cohorts while also helping students level-up from digital literacy to digital fluency.

This video won the 2021 ETP award in this category

Using student data as a conversation starter​

By George (Kev) Dertadian

How to engage students in the online learning environment is one of the major questions among university educators since the COVID-19 pandemic. In this video, Kev showcases how using student data can encourage deep listening and reciprocal dialogue amongst students, even if the content is pre-recorded.

This video won the 2022 ETP award in this category

 

Jamboards & Pear Deck: Online Tools to Increase Student Engagement

By Lana Ly

Implementation of the digital teaching tools Google Jamboards and Pear Deck boosts student participation in a fun and interactive way that helps combat the lack of student engagement and motivation to learn in an online environment.

This video won the 2021 ETP award in this category

Use a Whiteboard to Engage Online Students

By Chris Pearce

With the shift to online teaching, Chris aimed to find a way to inspire his students and tap into their passion for learning. The goal for Chris was to make the online classroom feel as close as possible to the in-person experience.

This video won the 2022 ETP award in this category

 

Inspiring students by building connection

By Steven Most

People learn best through connections with others; by shifting students' focus from our slides to our presence and passion, we can help them love what they learn.

This video won the 2021 ETP award in this category

Digital Accessibility: Ensuring Digital Access for Every Student

By Veronica Jiang

Inclusion and equity is extremely important for the student learning journey. In this video, Veronica discusses the first steps to improving digital accessibility such as accessibility tools and close captioning for online material.

This video won the 2022 ETP award in this category

 

No, you can't choose your team mates, and here's why

By Bradley Hastings

Practical exercise that enables students to experience the benefits of diversity.

This video won the 2021 ETP award in this category

Using construction failures to learn theories and best practices​

By Riza Yosia Sunindijo

In this video, Riza explains how to engage students effectively, whilst still maintaining theoretical integrity of the lecture content - especially in students who prefer to engage in a more practical manner with their course.

This video won the 2022 ETP award in this category

 

Creating an authentic virtual research and industry conference for students

By Michael Stevens

This video shows how I innovated using a new online platform to create an authentic and organic research and industry conference experience for undergraduate students in biomedical engineering.

This video won the 2021 ETP award in this category

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