Open Classrooms RMIT STEM College

Welcome to Season 3 of Open Classrooms. In this episode, our new host, Dr Tim Smith, Principal Advisor, Learning & Teaching in the STEM College, chats with returning guest Dr Jessica Danaher, who was the 2021 winner of the RMIT Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 2021 STEM College Early Career Teaching Excellence Award winner. In their conversation, Jess reflects on how the changes she planned to make to her courses that she spoke about in Episode 1 have played out, the impact of COVID-19 on her teaching practice, and her plans for where she's going next.

In this Episode, Cameron Stanley from Engineering discusses how he produces and uses podcasts with industry experts to engage and inspire his students.

In Episode 23, Natasha Taylor talks to Ash Moreland from Health and Biomedical Sciences about the work she has done to transform the way Research Methods (RM) is taught to Exercise and Sports Science students. Faced with the challenge of teaching a subject which students can find intimidating, irrelevant and conceptually disconnected, Ash enthusiastically describes her work as quest for the 'Da Vinci Code' of RM teaching.

In this Episode, Natasha Taylor talks to Will Sullivan about the work he does in engaging students from under-represented schools into STEM pathways.

In this episode, Natasha Taylor talks to Lisa Newman from the School of Science about the active-learning approaches she uses to personalise the learning experience for students in her second year nutrition classes.

In this Episode Natasha Taylor talks to Colin Kestell about the Flipped Classroom. They explore the many challenges associated with adopting a flipped approach, exposing some the myths and common misconceptions of this popular innovative approach to teaching in Higher Education.