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:
Assessment and feedback
Building student communities
Challenging and supporting students' active learning
Inspiring students
Leveraging student diversity
Linking learning to context
Supporting student wellbeing
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.
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
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
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
UNSW staff can access the growing repository below