If there’s one thing we love at This Week, it’s another quality channel serving our staff community.

TECHE is Macquarie University’s Learning and Teaching (L&T) community blog – and it’s well known for being an informed, real-world and ‘for the people, by the people’ channel.

While TECHE is primarily a blog run for (and by) our L&T community, there a lot of interesting stories and opinion pieces that might also interest the wider University community – particularly if you’re interested in hearing how our staff and students are managing with learning online.

Here’s just some of the TECHE highlights from the last quarter. You can subscribe to the highlights email and receive the best of TECHE to your inbox every fortnight.

(Oh, and before you ask, TECHE is pronounced ‘teach’ – the name comes from the Macquarie University motto ‘And Gladly Teche’, a quote from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.)

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• 4 ideas for more engaging Zoom lessons – How to make zoom sessions more engaging.
• Academic Integrity Reporting – Learn more about how we’re managing academic integrity breaches.
• The learning experience during a pandemic – Hear what Macquarie students have to say about what works (and what doesn’t) when it comes to online learning.
• Optimise your connectivity when working and teaching from home – Simple steps that might help you when working from home.
• Online Learning Etiquette – Make the most of classes (and meetings) held via Zoom.
• Changes in ‘Learner Evaluation of Unit’ (LEU) student Feedback survey – An overview of changes to the unit surveys in Session 2.
• Curriculum Lifecycle Framework – Professor Sean Brawley, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Programs and Pathways), provides an overview on the current course renewal program of work, and our unit quality assurance processes. (There’s also Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 if you’re interested in learning more).