Author: Dana Bui
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Establishing a teaching presence in your online course
Establishing a strong teaching presence sets the tone for a thriving online learning environment. From your welcome message to consistent engagement throughout the semester, clear communication and a human touch help students feel supported, connected, and motivated.
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Authentic leadership: Building influence without a title
True leadership is about influence built through authentic connection, trust, and purpose. This post explores how inclusive communities, genuine relationships, and passion-driven collaboration can create a powerful influence. Connect authentically, listen deeply, and align your impact with your values.
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Building feedback literacy through peer review and assessment
Peer review is one of the most powerful tools for developing student feedback literacy and engagement. When scaffolded effectively, it transforms assessment into an active learning process that builds evaluative judgment, critical thinking, and communication skills.
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Scaffolding reflection: Guiding students toward metacognitive learning and self evaluation
Scaffolding reflection helps students move from surface-level diary writing to deep metacognitive awareness. By guiding learners through structured prompts, modelling reflective thinking, and consistently embedding reflection, educators create supportive frameworks that foster self-regulation, critical thinking, and lifelong learning.
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Your self-care plan: the teaching tool you’re probably forgetting
Teaching is emotionally demanding, and without a self-care plan, burnout can creep in fast. This guide helps educators understand the difference between wellbeing and mental health and create a personalised self-care plan.
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The jigsaw activity: cooperation, accountability and diverse perspectives
The jigsaw activity is an educational approach that fosters collaboration and diverse perspectives. The activity’s design promotes interdependence and accountability, as each student’s contribution is critical to the group’s overall understanding.
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Navigating AI generated assessment and academic integrity standards
Tertiary education has received a shake up since the rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, challenging educators to rethink what truly constitutes student work and academic honesty. While AI-generated responses pose new questions about integrity, meaningful assessment design and deeper student engagement remain key to authentic learning. Discover strategies for defending against AI-produced submissions,…
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How to write quality quiz questions: Scenarios, nuanced distractors, and a feedback dialogue
Discover how to write quiz questions that are authentic, clear, nuanced, and supportive of learning. With tips on writing scenarios, crafting defensible distractors, and creating a meaningful feedback dialogue that turns assessments into real learning opportunities.
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Authentic MCQ quiz questions: How to avoid common issues
How do you create quality multiple choice questions (MCQs)? By focusing on plausible, nuanced distractors and building questions that reflect real-life situations.
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Enacting student feedback: Beyond eliciting, towards enacting
This post helps educators sift through student feedback effectively by using three criteria: suitability, practicality, and representativeness, to make meaningful course improvements.
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Celebrating Bi+ Day of Visibility: Personal reflections on coming out
Bi Day of Visibility serves as a powerful reminder of both the challenges and triumphs faced by bisexual individuals navigating diverse environments. From the safety of youth friendships to feeling like an imposter in adult queer spaces and confronting workplace silence, sharing authentic experiences highlights the importance of representation, allyship, and genuine support. Recognising and…
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Empowering students with skills for safe and ethical AI use
This post discusses why explicit digital literacy and ethical AI skills must be built into tertiary education, otherwise leaving them unprepared and exposed to risk. I provide practical, actionable strategies for educators to develop digital literacy among students and scaffold responsible engagement with AI.
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