Open Classrooms

RMIT STEM College

Open Classrooms is produced by the STEM College at RMIT (Melbourne, Australia). Each podcast features interviews and stories from our staff who have opened up their classroom doors and shared their practices, innovations and ideas.

  1. 04/06/2022

    Episode 25: Jessica Danaher

    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.

    35 min
  2. Episode 24: Cameron Stanley

    04/07/2020

    Episode 24: Cameron Stanley

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

    19 min
  3. Episode 23: Ash Moreland

    03/29/2020

    Episode 23: Ash Moreland

    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.

    34 min
  4. Episode 22: Will Sullivan

    02/27/2020

    Episode 22: Will Sullivan

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

    25 min
  5. Episode 21: Lisa Newman

    02/20/2020

    Episode 21: Lisa Newman

    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.

    21 min
  6. Episode 20: Colin Kestell

    02/05/2020

    Episode 20: Colin Kestell

    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.

    26 min
  7. Episode 19: Amir Homayoon Ashrafzadeh

    01/16/2020

    Episode 19: Amir Homayoon Ashrafzadeh

    Natasha Taylor talks to Amir Homayoon (Homy) Ashrafzadeh about the approaches he uses to engage students of software engineering both in Melbourne and Vietnam.

    26 min

  8. 12/06/2019

    Episode 18: Fabio Zambetta

    In this episode, Natasha Taylor talks to Fabio Zambetta about the work he and his team have done to transform the assessment experience for first-year computer programming students. Hear how they have successfully moved away from a very traditional paper-based exam to a real-time, computer-based problem-solving test (under exam conditions in a lab). Fabio reflects on the challenges the team faced in bringing the project to fruition and explains how the impact on student learning has made it all worthwhile!

    32 min
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About

Open Classrooms is produced by the STEM College at RMIT (Melbourne, Australia). Each podcast features interviews and stories from our staff who have opened up their classroom doors and shared their practices, innovations and ideas.

Information

  • Creator
    RMIT STEM College
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2022
  • Episodes
    25
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © RMIT STEM College
  • Show Website
    Open Classrooms