Open Classrooms

Open Classrooms

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Open Classrooms episodes

  • Episode 25: Jessica Danaher

    Welcome to Season 3 of Open Classrooms. In this episode, our new host, Dr Tim Smith, Principal Advisor, Learning & Teaching in the STEM College, chats with returning guest Dr Jessica Danaher, who was the 2021 winner of the RMIT Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 2021 STEM College Early Career Teaching Excellence Award winner. In their conversation, Jess reflects on how the changes she planned to make to her courses that she spoke about in Episode 1 have played out, the impact of COVID-19 on her teaching practice, and her plans for where she's going next.

    35 min
  • Episode 23: Ash Moreland
    In Episode 23, Natasha Taylor talks to Ash Moreland from Health and Biomedical Sciences about the work she has done to transform the way Research Methods (RM) is taught to Exercise and Sports Science students. Faced with the challenge of teaching a subject which students can find intimidating, irrelevant and conceptually disconnected, Ash enthusiastically describes her work as quest for the 'Da Vinci Code' of RM teaching.
    34 min
  • Episode 21: Lisa Newman
    In this episode, Natasha Taylor talks to Lisa Newman from the School of Science about the active-learning approaches she uses to personalise the learning experience for students in her second year nutrition classes.
    22 min
  • Episode 20: Colin Kestell
    In this Episode Natasha Taylor talks to Colin Kestell about the Flipped Classroom. They explore the many challenges associated with adopting a flipped approach, exposing some the myths and common misconceptions of this popular innovative approach to teaching in Higher Education.
    27 min
  • Episode 18: Fabio Zambetta

    In this episode, Natasha Taylor talks to Fabio Zambetta about the work he and his team have done to transform the assessment experience for first-year computer programming students.

    Hear how they have successfully moved away from a very traditional paper-based exam to a real-time, computer-based problem-solving test (under exam conditions in a lab). Fabio reflects on the challenges the team faced in bringing the project to fruition and explains how the impact on student learning has made it all worthwhile!

    32 min
  • Episode 17: Engineering Students Lachlan, Callum and Henry

    In this two-episode special, Natasha Taylor explores a new assessment project which has been delivered for the first time the semester in the School of Engineering.  First-year students of Engineering Design and Communication work together in groups to research, design, 3D print and ultimately race drag cars – the aim is to teach them the skills and processes of computer-aided product design by immersing them in it. The project incorporates group learning, agile/design thinking methodologies, maker based pedagogy and peer assessment.


    Episode 16 focuses on the teacher perspective with Hormoz Marzbani; for Episode 17, three students reflect together on the benefits and challenges they experienced throughout the course.

    32 min
  • Episode 16: Hormoz Marzbani

    In this two-episode special, Natasha Taylor explores a new assessment project which has been delivered for the first time the semester in the School of Engineering.  First-year students of Engineering Design and Communication work together in groups to research, design, 3D print and ultimately race drag cars – the aim is to teach them the skills and processes of computer-aided product design by immersing them in it. The project incorporates group learning, agile/design thinking methodologies, maker based pedagogy and peer assessment.

    Episode 16 focuses on the teacher perspective with Hormoz Marzbani; for Episode 17, three students reflect together on the benefits and challenges they experienced throughout the course.

    32 min

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Open Classrooms is produced by the STEM College at RMIT (Melbourne, Australia).