Requiring students to use and critique AI

Early institutional messaging about generative AI mostly told students not to use it. For health management students this was a problem because they’re moving into planning and policy roles where AI is already shaping decisions, and they needed to form judgements about what these systems produce and how they might be useful (or not). In Term 1

Teaching a large, mostly online cohort so students feel part of it

PHCM9391 Health Organisations, Strategy and Change has around 400 working health professionals enrolled each year, most studying online and many asynchronously. Whether students in a cohort like this engage depends partly on whether they feel like they belong to it, so I treat inclusion as a course design issue. I speak directly to students who will watch the recording (not just the ones live

Podcasts that link student learning with industry

The School of Population Health has many alumni, conjoint and adjunct staff who work in health services and want to contribute to our teaching. I wanted to draw on that goodwill and expertise so that students in PHCM9615 Primary Health Care could connect what they were learning with the experience of people working in the field. In 2020 and 2021 I interviewed 15 experts in integrated care and

Assessing peer-led online discussion

Online discussion forums often turn into a series of disconnected posts. With A/Prof Anita Heywood I developed a structure and process for assessing students' facilitation of asynchronous peer-led discussion, so that students take responsibility for moderating each other's

Teaching and supporting postgraduate students, 2018-2026

PHCM9391 Health Organisations, Strategy and Change has around 400 working health professionals enrolled each a year, most studying online and many asynchronously. Whether students in a cohort like this engage depends partly on whether they feel they belong, so I treat inclusion as part of course design. I speak directly to students who will watch the recording, voice students' written

Helping students with AI instructions for both them and AI assistants

Some educators hide instructions for AI tools in assessment documents, in white text or in the metadata. When a student pastes the task into a chatbot, the AI adds a telltale, such as an unexpected theoretical perspective, and the student unwittingly submits evidence of their own misconduct. I understand the frustration, but this relies on trickery and undermines trust with students. Most of