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Hi Kelly
Thanks for sharing that example - I took a very similar class in my undergraduate years. During one of the tutorials we were asked to give an example of how we benefited from white privilege. The activity was very simple, and yet so profound I remember almost every example. Drawing on personal experiences has always led to meaningful learning moments for me :-)
Annabelle

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Hi, my name is Annabelle. I’ve experienced a number of positive and negative learning experiences in my 24 years of education, but the most memorable for me was my PhD. I received very positive feedback for my thesis, and have excellent relationships with my supervisors, but found the overall experience to be haunting. Over 4.5 years, I drafted chapters sequentially and submitted them to my supervisors for feedback. The feedback was always delivered thoughtfully and constructively but the process of never addressing all of my supervisors concerns significantly diminished my sense of confidence, ability, esteem and willingness to learn. I still don’t know how the process could have been improved but I know from conversations with my peers that I am not alone in my experience.

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Hi, Kelly here. As an undergraduate Psychology student (after working in health as a nurse and midwife for 20+ years) I completed a compulsory unit: Indigenous and Cross Cultural Psychology. I had worked in Aboriginal health for many years and thought I knew a bit about the area :-) however was completely unprepared for the experience of hearing an Aboriginal woman tell her family's story about their experience as being a part of the Stolen Generation. I cried, I asked questions, I cried some more, then I read and researched to understand more. As corny as it sounds, those 3 x 2 hour lectures changed my view of the world and my place in it. I am now the unit coordinator of the same unit- I only hope I can be a part of a student experiencing such a learning experience.

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Hi, my name is Kateleen and my most memorable learning experiences are from my high school psychology class. Our teacher always spoke with enthusiasm, and she had a lot of knowledge on what she was teaching. She applied what she was teaching to current real-life scenarios or her own personal anecdotes, and encouraged us to think and do the same in our own lives. When we were learning about perception, she did a demonstration with us about how our mind could trick us, and it was something that we all found humorous. It got us talking and laughing together.

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Hi, my name is Beatriz Oliveira. I remember really enjoying my high school years due to having engaging teachers who made their students laugh and kept them interested. Not only where they very knowledgeable in their subject but they weaved funny stories/anecdotes related to their teaching and interesting assignments with real-life application. We were able to remember information better as they were associated to interesting stories and assignments that led to the formation of long-term memory. It was an incredibly effective way to learn in my experience and I now try to apply that in my own teaching.

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Hi Sanjeev,
Your post resonated with me because although I don't mind interactive lectures, I also like the old-fashioned kind where you listen, take notes, and follow up with your own research. While I think interactive learning has its place, I think traditional learning styles do as well. As a lecturer I've found that blending my content delivery with discussion activities with optional whole-group participation, and online options like surveys, Padlets, YouTube videos, etc, are good ways to break up the traditional lecture for students who don't learn so well from that style, but keep its advantages.
- Eleanor.

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Hi, my name is Eleanor Morecroft. I am late posting but I thought I would share one of my most memorable learning experiences. One of the first classes I took at university was an American History survey course. The lecturer was a few years away from retirement and ran lectures the old-fashioned way, writing on a blackboard. I remember other students finding this hard but I liked it because it looked like the lecturing style I'd seen in films. I listened and took notes and did well on the exam, but I remember perhaps one fact from 13-14 weeks of lectures. The more interactive style of tutorials was more engaging, but I don't remember anything from those either, apart from the in-class assessment where I thought I'd be able to play a video and, finding I couldn't, acted out the scene with voices. I remember more from classes where there was a combination of lectures, interaction and authentic assessment.

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Hi my name is Leo, one of my most 'enjoyable' learning experience was when I did an intense 1 week Business course (called Curtin Ignition). The lecturers were dynamic, students were asked to work on their own project (that they were passionate about), we had support from the mentors and there were social events also so that students can interact with one another. It sounds fun, but I worked from 7am to 2am every day and loved every minute of it. Involving students to interact is so important. Active vs Passive

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Hi, I am Sanjeev. Going back 20 years, my idea of learning was to sit back in the class, listen, taken notes, and go home and research. So, you can understand when I came to do the MBA in Australia, I was forced to participate in group discussions, present my views, and basically engage. I hated it. Going to lectures was stressful, not to mention the lack of fluency in English at that time. The few one directional lectures we had gave me enormous freedom to listen or day dream. However, I found my mind wondering most of the time and then I came to the realisation that the units in which I had to engage, I was focused and truly learning. When I see international students, who try to hide from engaging discussion or presenting, I remember me 20 years back; how annoying it must be when the facilitator asked questions and want your views.

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Hi, my name is Georgina Sauzier. My most memorable learning experiences came from a second-year chemistry class on thermodynamics. The lecturer undoubtedly knew his topic, but was terrible at explaining it - our slides were full of text and equations, with no real engagement. Worst of all, instead of adapting his teaching approach, he made us feel that we simply weren't trying hard enough. By contrast, my lab tutor for the same unit went out of her way to (very patiently!) guide us towards an understanding of the material by building on other concepts we had already learned. She inspired me to start teaching myself to try and give that same support and insight to others.

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Hello, I'm Darrell Jones. One of my best adult learning experiences was on a week long intensive course for company directors. The blend of content delivery followed by active group work/case study application of the content really engaged the class and highlighted the benefits of active learning vs passive content delivery. This has always stayed with me and I'm attempting to incorporate these techniques into my own class

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Hi, my name is Lucas Tisdall. I often think back to my first undergrad year as a Commerce student. I remember getting the Intro to Statistics text in its thousand-page glory and hoping that the lectures would make sense of the gobbledegook inside. Unfortunately, the author was also the lecturer, and the gobbledegook only made it from the book onto the lecture-room big screen. I swore that day to never speak on a subject I couldn't find relevance for or bring alive to my audience.

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Hi, I'm Craig Whitsed. My memorable experience was working with Carla pictured below on her on her PhD project. We were investigating the contemporary Aust ED environment as this relates to Internationalisation of the curriculum for a comparative study. It was memorable because we had to negotiate some big assumptions about related to diversity. I had to get used to being called "professor" and Carla to a less formal context.