Resources for Learning and Teaching

Useful resources for those wishing to enhance the student learning experience.

• Academic issues
• Active Learning Strategies
• Assessment
• Curriculum development
• Diversity and internationalisation
• e-Learning and online education examples
• Graduate Attributes, The University of Adelaide
• In at the Deep End by Phil Race (Staff access only)
• Learning and teaching
• Reading efficiently (for first year students)
• Research Writing: Learning a writing skill and thereby avoiding plagiarism
• Small groups
• Sessional Teaching Program: Bibliography
• Supervision/postgraduate education
• Teaching case studies (Leap)
• Teaching students with a disability
• Using information technology
• Online Resources, Faculty Development Associates (USA)
  A site containing many useful links on various academic development topics.

Educational Taxonomies

Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives and The SOLO Taxonomy

These two taxonomies are useful in formulating objectives, planning teaching and learning activities, and devising assessment tasks.

The Teaching and Educational Development Institute of the University of Queensland have produced two leaflets outlining the use of these taxonomies:

• http://www.tedi.uq.edu.au/downloads/bloom.pdf
• http://www.tedi.uq.edu.au/downloads/Biggs_Solo.pdf