Educational Resources

Led by Education Focussed (EF) Academics, the EF Communities of Practices (CoPs) at UNSW have developed many of the following resources. Some resources included here have not been developed by the EF CoPs, however, are identified as particularly useful to assist with learning and teaching. If you are keen to hear more or want to participate in any way, please email us.

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Academic Self-Reflection Video (Student Wellbeing Strategy)

Dec 15, 2020 (Article) — Academic self-reflection videos provide a great platform for academics to share their personal wellbeing experiences and strategies with students.

Active Learning Initiative: How to ‘activate’ your virtual classroom in BlackBoard Collaborate Ultra

Aug 06, 2020 (Article) — Works with academics to support active learning by leveraging other initiatives like summative peer review, educational-focused positions and academic development.

Being strategic about sharing your TED practice by using the 4Cs dissemination strategy

Nov 03, 2023 (Article) — The 4 Cs Strategy for disseminating innovations in university teaching: Classroom, Corridors, Campus, Community.

Checklist for Designing or Redesigning a Course

Oct 19, 2020 (Article) — What constitutes “good” course design? If you were designing a new course or redeveloping one, where would you start? Start here.

COVID-19 Student Wellbeing Concerns

Aug 14, 2020 (Article) — Outlines wellbeing concerns common across all Faculties. Also contains initiatives that have popped up in response to COVID-19 that will help maintain student wellbeing.

Creating e-Teaching Team Culture

Dec 02, 2020 (Article) — Academic from the School of Banking and Finance, shares a descriptor of increasing student engagement in large online courses by improving the Teaching Team culture.

Curiosity, Context, Connection Project: Students connecting in art and design communities

Dec 15, 2020 (Article) — Provides opportunity for students to meet, network and build relationships with one another outside of class and engage in the broader art and design communities.

Digital & Online Learning Innovation site (DOLI), university-wide resource

Nov 02, 2023 (Moodle) — Resource developed as part of the EF Digital and Online Learning Innovation Community of Practice and adopted from an earlier resource created by a community of academics.

Digital Assessment Toolkit

Aug 14, 2020 (Web) — This tool facilitate a seamless learning experience by providing exemplars of digital assessment, tools for digital assessment and links to get started with digital assessment.

Directory of Expertise

Nov 01, 2023 (Web) — This directory consists of UNSW members with identified interest/skill in particular fields of online education and provides an avenue to connect.

Draft Guide to Course Design at UNSW

May 05, 2022 (Article) — This guide aims to help UNSW academics design and develop new courses and redesign existing courses.

e-Portfolio Exemplar Profiles

Oct 19, 2020 (Website) — EF Academics worked together to provide example profiles for each level of promotion including C, D and E. Click here to be taken to the example profiles.

EF Buddy program

Oct 19, 2020 (Article) — The New EF CoP have created a Buddy support program to assist New EF Academics. Read about the program here.

End of year message for students

Nov 09, 2020 (Article) — This resources contains an end of year message for students. The message can be tailored by academics and contains links to support services and student guidance.

Enhancing student learning through online lectures using Moodle quizzes

Oct 29, 2020 (Article) — Academics explain how they adopted Moodle Quiz and short video lessons to increase student engagement and allow for flexible delivery of lectures to a large cohort.

Evaluating Teaching Practice

Aug 14, 2020 (Web) — Resource on evaluating teaching practice, using appropriate evaluation methodologies to measure the impact of teaching practices and innovations.

Guide to creating your myEducation Portfolio profile

Oct 19, 2020 (Article) — Start here for documenting your teaching excellence with myEducation Portfolio.

Guide to existing resources for course design and development at UNSW

Nov 03, 2023 (Article) — A toolkit for evaluating and adapting low-tech 'on the fly' innovations developed during COVID to the new normal educational context.

Guide to Scaling Education

Jan 12, 2021 (Article) — Collection of interventions to improve the large class student experience, streamlining administration of large courses, mobilizing teaching teams and pedagogy.

Healthy Universities Initiative

Oct 19, 2020 (Website) — The Student Wellbeing CoP has worked in collaboration with the Healthy Universities Initiative to promote and explore student wellbeing at UNSW.

In-Class Microsoft Forms Student Survey for Student Wellbeing

Dec 15, 2020 (Article) — A survey is developed on Microsoft Forms to present a series of wellbeing questions to students during class.

Integrating Self-management Capability Building into the Curriculum

Dec 15, 2020 (Article) — Self-Management Moodle Section that can be integrated into courses, featuring resources to further develop students' self-management skills.

Just in time email for students

Nov 09, 2020 (Article) — Alert students to wellbeing help across different stages of the university term. Notifications can be pasted into end of course emails or tailored to suit your students.

Link to myEducation Portfolio

Aug 14, 2020 (Web) — myEducation Portfolio is a great place to showcase your educational achievements to others and to reflect, grow and inspire the education practice for academic staff.

Managing a large number of sessional academics

Nov 11, 2020 (Article) — EF Academics share a method of managing and supporting a large number of Sessional Academics in The School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications (EE&T).

Managing a large number of student applications through Power Automate

Dec 15, 2020 (Article) — Within the School of Chemical Engineering Power Automate was used to reduce the workload associated with a large number of honours and PG thesis student applications.

Mid-Term Check In for Student Wellbeing

Dec 15, 2020 (Article) — Including a short survey halfway through the term enables academics to gather useful feedback on how students feel about the course and are managing their workload.

Non-course Related Discussion Thread (Student Wellbeing Strategy)

Dec 15, 2020 (Article) — Setting up a non-course related discussion thread provides students with a forum to socially connect and engage with one another outside of course work.

Online Open Book Exam Guide

Aug 11, 2020 (Article) — This guide is intended to help provide some advice and ideas to help make your next open book exam the best experience it can be for both the students and the lecturer.

Online Teamwork in Large Courses

Aug 06, 2020 (Article) — This resource, created by a member of the Scaling Education CoP, is a one page exemplar of online teamwork used in a large Engineering course.

Overview of Sessional Academic Learning and Teaching (SALT)

Aug 10, 2020 (Article) — A brief guide that explains what SALT is all about.

Overview of the Process of Teamwork

Aug 11, 2020 (Article) — Here you’ll find some tips on the three stages of teamwork, ‘Forming Teams, Operating in Teams and Evaluating Teams’.

Preparing for the new HSC Physics syllabus

Aug 14, 2020 (Web) — CoP to share ideas on preparing high school students and teachers for this new content, as well as revise our current curriculum.

Remote Laboratories: Control Systems Course

Dec 02, 2020 (Article) — This resources outlines the method applied to introduce remote labs in a large Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications course.

RU OK? Monitor (Student Wellbeing Strategy)

Dec 15, 2020 (Article) — The R U OK? Monitor provides students with a weekly opportunity to reflect and communicate how they’re feeling about their study.

Sessional Academic Career Development Tools

Oct 19, 2020 (Moodle) — A UNSW-wide online self-paced professional development program for sessional academics, currently being developed by the EF Sessional Staff CoP – available late 2020

Student communication strategy for large courses

Dec 17, 2020 (Article) — This resource, created by a member of the Scaling Education CoP, is a two page exemplar of using Moodle to manage student communication in a large undergraduate course.

Student-Staff Liaison Committees

Dec 15, 2020 (Article) — Committees can provide students with a platform to communicate with staff on matters relating to their course as well as academic performance and student wellbeing.

Studio Teaching On MS Teams Platform As A Scalable Model For Innovation In Education

Oct 27, 2023 (Article) — A toolkit for evaluating and adapting low-tech ‘on the fly’ innovations developed during COVID to the new normal educational context.

Successful supervision of Work Integrated Learning (WIL)

Aug 07, 2020 (Article) — This one page guide highlights the elements and strategies involved in the successful supervision of WIL students.

Teamwork Checklist

Nov 03, 2023 (Article) — A Checklist for designing and re-designing effective teamwork-based learning and assessment.

Term-long Groupwork Activities (Student Wellbeing Strategy)

Dec 17, 2020 (Article) — Designing courses that encourage students to work closely with one group of peers throughout term can foster communities where students can support one another.

UNSW Port Macquarie Rural Clinical School Buddy Program

Dec 15, 2020 (Article) — The UNSW Rural Clinical School at Port Macquarie has established a buddy program to assist first year students in their transition to university.

Work Integrated Learning

Aug 14, 2020 (Website) — This comprehensive website provides information on Work Integrated Learning (WIL) for students, staff and partner organisations.

Meet the Academics — Introduction Panel (Student Wellbeing Strategy)

Dec 15, 2020 (Article) — Hosting a introduction panel in the first week of class can provide an opportunity for students to get to know their lecturers and tutors and feel more connected.