Getting creative with assessment – Parasitology Got Talent

After our highly informative and thought-provoking expert panel on managing classroom discussions on challenging topics, I caught up with one of the panel members, Dr Michael Zekulin, to ask some of the questions that we didn’t get to at the panel event. Two online attendees asked about what type of advice or guidance the teaching […]

In this era where technology and pedagogy increasingly intersect, the terms “flipped learning” and “blended learning” often come up in discussions about innovative teaching. Both approaches improve students’ academic performance (Cao, 2023; Tutal & Yazar, 2021), foster higher-order thinking competencies (Brewer & Movahedazarhouligh, 2018), and enhance engagement (Bond, 2020; Means et al., 2013); however, they […]

Each semester the Student Experience of Learning and Teaching (SELT) asks students for feedback about their courses of study and how they are taught.

When students attend the opening lecture of the Biomedical Parasitology course in third year, they are met with a surprising scene. They encounter an intriguing character: the flea circus director Professor Schmarotzersindwunderbarhausen, or as a rough translation suggests, a professor for “parasites are wonderful”. Role playing Meet Alex Maier. For Professor Maier, donning a costume […]

The challenge of teaching what is often described as the ‘dismal’ science of economics may be daunting to some, but not for Associate Professor Creina Day, who teaches macroeconomics to postgraduate students at the Crawford School of Public Policy.

It wasn’t the usual Wednesday and Thursday lunchtime in the Coombs building (College of Asia and the Pacific).