Tales 4 Teaching

In episode 37, Dr Jo Elliott speaks to Deakin Business School's Dr Micaela Spiers and student Eleni Dardagan about working in partnership to design an inclusive, supported assessment experience for first-year students.

In Episode 36, Joan Sutherland speaks to Dr Kerri Morgan from Deakin's School of Informational Technology about developing an inclusive introductory maths unit to help students connect with, and overcome anxiety about, maths.

In Episode 35, Dr Joanna Tai from CRADLE joins Associate Prof. Chie Adachi to share insights from her recent NCSEHE-funded project, Reimagining Exams, and the development of an Inclusive Assessment Design Framework.

In Episode 34, Dr Jo Elliott speaks to Dr Jillian Healy and PhD candidate Anna Miltiadous about their work on curating a learner-centred collection of open educational resources for a first-year Biology unit.

In Episode 33, Dr Angela Ziebell joins Associate Prof. Barbie Panther to reflect on her experience, as a non-Indigenous academic, of co-designing an Indigenous Science unit with colleagues at Monash University's William Cooper Institute.

In Episode 32, Dr Jo Elliott catches up with Dr Sarah Lambert to learn about open educational resources and how they can benefit our students and communities. Sarah shares suggestions for getting started with open textbooks and other open resources, and some initiatives growing OER in Australia. 

In Episode 31, Dr Jo Elliott and Dr Mollie Dollinger talk about how to get started with Students as Partners, with suggestions for how we can increase the involvement of students in decision-making at all levels of the University.

In Episode 30, Dr Jo Elliott catches up once again with Karen Powell from the Deakin Law School, and guest from Episode 8, for an update on the Online Law Clinic. Karen shares more about how the team created inclusive and flexible experiential learning activities online, and some unanticipated benefits!

In Episode 29, Associate Prof. Barbie Panther is joined by Prof. Mark Rose, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Indigenous Strategy and Innovation, to talk about embedding Indigenous knowledge and ways of thinking and a sense of connection to place and one another, in digital learning.

In Episode 28, Deakin's Dean of Students, Professor Lisa Hanna talks to Associate Prof. Chie Adachi about why the framework, Students as Partners is important, what this means for staff and students, and how this is being enacted through various initiatives at Deakin.