Film/TV history Media Archaeology Project

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Film/TV history Media Archaeology Project

How do we teach and assess research skills in the era of AI? This assignment replaces the historical research essay with a scaffolded assessment of qualitative research process. It cultivates historical curiosity; requires students to design a research project; find, present, annotate, evaluate and contextualise authentic primary sources; and draw conclusions.

Second year, Third year
Class size of 80-100
Open
Knowledge transfer: Briefing session

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Knowledge transfer: Briefing session

Students who have completed their semester abroad reflect on this experience to provide concrete advice on the Study Abroad experience in a pre-departure briefing or information session for students who are currently considering an exchange experience.

Third year
Class size of 20-40, 40-60
Secure
Infographic and Video Presentation

Business, Economics and Law

Infographic and Video Presentation

Underpinned by the principles of authentic assessment, students are required to create an infographic and accompanying video presentation. This gives students an opportunity to develop their skills with communicating economic thinking in non-technical plain language to a range of audiences using different modes.

Post-graduate
Class size of 100-500
Open
Padlet Digital Reflections

Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

Padlet Digital Reflections

Every week of semester students are required to use Padlet to write a reflection using concepts and theories from the week's lecture, readings, and from other resources such as academic and media articles, open blogs, images, video and social media.

Second year
Class size of 40-60
Open
Authentic assessment: An interactive museum exhibit

Science

Authentic assessment: An interactive museum exhibit

Concepts and skills are developed over a semester to design an interactive computer program for a hypothetical museum exhibition. By providing structure while leaving some aspects unspecified, students make creative choices and combine skill sets, and demonstrate mastery to meet the objective of inspiring patrons. Clear and relevant communication to the end-user is a top priority.

First year
Class size of 500+
Open
Professional Experience Learning Reflection

Business, Economics and Law

Professional Experience Learning Reflection

Students are asked to write a reflective essay about their project that includes a description of critical incidents, reflection of personal change, and a supporting visual element.

Post-graduate
Class size of 100-500
Open
Design Development Supported by a Virtual Environment

Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology

Design Development Supported by a Virtual Environment

Delivered in an active learning environment, this work-integrated learning experience and authentic assessment task requires preparation of a written and diagrammatic report. Students critically analyse a given construction detail in 4-dimensions using an interactive digital learning environment, then apply their learning to a 3-dimensional analysis and resolution of two construction details derived from a team-based schematic design completed in the previous assignment.

Third year
Class size of 80-100
Open
Workplace Learning Portfolio

Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences

Workplace Learning Portfolio

In Phase 2 (the clinical years) of the MD program in the Faculty of Medicine, students collect evidence of observed practice of core clinical skills - Mini Clinical Evaluation Exercise (Mini-CEX), Direct Observed Procedural Skills (DOPS) and Compulsory Observed Procedural Skills (COPS). They also lodge Clinical Participation Assessments for each clinical rotation. The overarching aims of the Workplace Learning Portfolio course are intern readiness, to be observed practicing core skills and receive feedback, and to use that feedback to continue to grow and develop.

Post-graduate
Class size of 100-500
Open
Group Site and Precedent Analysis for Design Studio

Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology

Group Site and Precedent Analysis for Design Studio

Students work in teams to collate and critically analyse a building site, and precedent building designs, that they will use for an individual design later in semester. They learn to work quickly in teams and to critically reflect on their own and team-mates work, in studio. The work is jointly presented in modified 'pecha kucha' style (20 slides for 30 seconds each only) to further share their ideas with the rest of the studio cohort.

Post-graduate
Class size of 40-60
Open
Seminar Submission (written or negotiated)

Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences

Seminar Submission (written or negotiated)

As part of a progressive series of seminars, this assessment item acts as the culminating piece for each seminar. The default submission format is a written piece lodged via Turn-It-In of between 750-1500 words - with greater weight allocated to the assessment items as the seminars progress. Because of the nature of the cohort (practising sport coaches) and the level of the program (post-graduate study), students are offered a degree of choice within each seminar (e.g. topic focus and submission format). Students are supported through this process through the seminar structure of reading week, discussion week, assessment week).

Post-graduate
Class size of 10-20
Open