Teaching News You Can Use (TNYCU) is a UNSW repository of two-minute videos outlining readily usable teaching practices for tackling the following common (online and face-to-face) teaching challenges:
TNYCU was developed in 2021 by Professor Peter Heslin and our Scientia Education Academy (SEA). The videos within it emerged from an SEA Exemplary Teaching Practices Award competition designed to:
Here you can view the 2021 and 2022 winning videos of the series. More will become available each year.
By Chris Pearce
With the shift to online teaching, Chris aimed to find a way to inspire his students and tap into their passion for learning. The goal for Chris was to make the online classroom feel as close as possible to the in-person experience.
*This video won the 2022 ETP award in this category
By Veronica Jiang
Inclusion and equity is extremely important for the student learning journey. In this video, Veronica discusses the first steps to improving digital accessibility such as accessibility tools and close captioning for online material.
*This video won the 2022 ETP award in this category
By George (Kev) Dertadian
How to engage students in the online learning environment is one of the major questions among university educators since the COVID-19 pandemic. In this video, Kev showcases how using student data can encourage deep listening and reciprocal dialogue amongst students, even if the content is pre-recorded.
*This video won the 2022 ETP award in this category
By Tracie Barber
In this video, Tracie explains using the tool Power Automate from Microsoft can effectively and efficiently get students to submit assignments and get their marks back without having too much intervention from you.
*This video won the 2022 ETP award in this category
By Riza Yosia Sunindijo
In this video, Riza explains how to engage students effectively, whilst still maintaining theoretical integrity of the lecture content - especially in students who prefer to engage in a more practical manner with their course.
*This video won the 2022 ETP award in this category
By Steven Most
People learn best through connections with others; by shifting students' focus from our slides to our presence and passion, we can help them love what they learn.
*This video won the 2021 ETP award in this category
By Lynn Gribble
You can encourage students to engage with you and each other by using emojis in online classes.
By Michele Madigan
This video is about how I use puns to introduce students to 'eye wonder' as way of inspiring a love of living eye anatomy.
By Emma Jane
This clip explains the way asynchronous video intros can be used to foster a sense of camaraderie and common purpose in online cohorts while also helping students level-up from digital literacy to digital fluency.
*This video won the 2021 ETP award in this category
By Tim Gregory
How I developed and shared educational resources outside UNSW to generate a community that connects the classroom to larger publics and networks.
By Terry Ord
Challenge students to think for themselves to become active participants in their own learning in an online asynchronous learning environment.
By Bradley Hastings
Practical exercise that enables students to experience the benefits of diversity.
*This video won the 2021 ETP award in this category
By Nirmani Wijenayake Gamachchige
This video presents ways to build diverse learning communities and a sense of belonging via group work.
*This video was a finalist for a 2021 ETP award in this category
By Will Felips
Assign students to discuss puzzles in small groups and then cold-call (especially if you’re teaching mainly collectivists).
*This video was a finalist for a 2021 ETP award in this category
By Lana Ly
Implementation of the digital teaching tools Google Jamboards and Pear Deck boosts student participation in a fun and interactive way that helps combat the lack of student engagement and motivation to learn in an online environment.
*This video won the 2021 ETP award in this category
by Timothy Trudgian
We may not be able to state that an answer is right, but we can certainly see if it is wrong!
By Emma Jane
This clip shows how I use platforms such as Slido, Kahoot, Jamboard, and VideoAsk – combined with a better person-to-PowerPoint slide ratio – to enhance students' active online learning.
By Yunshen Yang
This video describes how to frame mistakes in instructions as a useful tool to boost students' engagement and active learning.
By Nirmani Wijenayake Gamachchige
A way to encourage students to actually read the course outline
By Pan Wang
Co-construction across e-platforms - A simple solution to active learning online and face to face.
By Chien Gooi
Introducing the use of simulation training and deliberate practice to develop important skills.
By David Bronstein
I describe a teaching practice I developed ("study partner reflections") in order to help students understand difficult readings and feel confident in their ability to discuss them in class.
By Jenny Richmond
The video describes how you can use your voice to deliver more feedback in less time, in a way that is less confronting and more useful to students.
*This video won the 2021 ETP award in this category
By Lynn Gribble
This video shows the benefits of deploying Personalised Learning Designer (PLD) to support student engagement with feedback and assessment.
By Michael Stevens
This video shows how I innovated using a new online platform to create an authentic and organic research and industry conference experience for undergraduate students in biomedical engineering.
*This video won the 2021 ETP award in this category
By Chris Jackson
The video describes how interviews with nearly 50 experts in entrepreneurism is incorporated in both my teaching and within a walking tours app to help students "see, feel, hear and smell" what it is like to be an entrepreneur in Sydney.
*This video was a finalist for a 2021 ETP award in this category
By Emma Jane
This clip outlines how I parlayed my media and communications contacts into Career Development Learning opportunities for our students using a successful pitch to the Australian television host Osher Günsberg as an example.
By John Roberts
