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Offshore International Peer Study Support

Online workshop

The University of Adelaide strives to provide 1:1 personalised mentoring support to our offshore, commencing, international students by current international students throughout their first semester at University.

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New student-led initiative assists with discipline-specific writing

Get it Write - interview

The Writing Centre launched a new, discipline-specific writing workshop series in semester one this year called  ‘Get it Write’.
Four sessions have been held so far, with two sessions on creative writing, one on history writing and one on science writing. During the session authors were asked to share one of their published pieces with the audience. The host then interviewed the author based on their work, followed by an audience guided Q&A.  These sessions are also unique in that they are created by students, for students, with help from the staff at the University of Adelaide Writing Centre

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Learning on country through VR

Uncle Frank Wanganeen 1

In 2020, remote students in the Indigenous People, Country and Protocols course could have missed out on a valuable experience: learning on country.

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Using LinkedIn Learning content in MyUni

LinkedIn Learning

Is there a particular employability skill that you would like to incorporate into a course you are teaching? Do you have students who could benefit from some additional learning around a particular digital skill?

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Academic Integrity Teaching Resources and Training

Academic Integrity Training

The University takes an ‘educative’ approach to academic integrity. We believe that students respond best to information about academic integrity when it is embedded into the curriculum, and taught in ways which are immediately relevant to course content and assessments.

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Launch of the HDR Supervision Community of Practice

HDR CoP Launch event

On Thursday May 20, 2021 the HDR Supervision Community of Practice was launched at an event in Ingkarni Wardli. 

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Community of Practice in Focus - eLearning

Technology is increasingly being used to facilitate active learning and collaboration, to better engage and support students via richer learning experiences and to accommodate the needs and expectations of students from different cultural backgrounds, with different learning styles, across different study contexts. 

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This is how i teach

Professor Holger Maier

This month we spoke with Professor Holger Maier, Faculty of ECMS educator and alumnus of the University of Adelaide.  He discussed thoughts on the importance of context in learning, and the teaching methods he utilises.

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UoA–Pearson Alliance launches dedicated Community of Practice

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The Alliance CoP is a community of academic staff members who are, or have been, engaged in the design, development and delivery of the fully online suite of programs created under the partnership between the University of Adelaide and Pearson.

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Community of Practice finds success with Masterclass Series

Iran Sanadzadeh - Writing Centre Learning Advisor

On Wednesday 14th April, the Student Leadership Programs Community of Practice ran the first of its 2021 mid-semester masterclass days.

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