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In a nutshell: Community of Inquiry for online subjects

By David Yeats,

Check out a threefold model that simplifies educational experience into three broad areas: Teaching Presence, Cognitive Presence and Social Presence.

Beyond Knowing: the Recognition of Prior Living

By Bem Le Hunte,

What does it mean for an institution to recognise Being, not just Knowing? The Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (BCII) is a transdisciplinary, future-facing degree that combines with 25 other core degrees. Its aim is to prepare students with the broad range of 21st century skills that employers...

The Inclusivity Experiment: inclusive education by design

By Rashmi Mohotti,

In an increasingly globalised world, with greater attention paid to environments that suit a wide range of people in a range of circumstances, inclusivity is more important than ever. Thus, The Inclusivity Experiment was born.   As an initiative built to challenge conventional ways of thinking about inclusivity, The Inclusivity Experiment couldn’t...

LXT Snapshot: Atieh Fallahi on speaking two languages

By Phaedra Carroll,

What makes a Canvas Champion? Atieh Fallahi from the Business School tells us about her LX Transformation experience.

Dynamic Online Learning: The Zoom Classroom

By Alison McEwen,

Discover how a new Master of Genetic Counselling program was delivered primarily in an online environment by using Zoom as a face-to-face, online classroom.

Help is on the way! Bookings now open for Canvas Lab

By LX Team,

With Autumn session just around the corner, we are extending our support hours so we can help all teaching staff who are starting with Canvas ensure that their subject site is good to go. Even if you’re not using Canvas yet, we’ll be assisting with a wide range of...

New in Canvas: the Canvas Plagiarism Review

By Diego Verdier Benia,

Turnitin is one of the most important tools at UTS for identifying cases of academic dishonesty. However, feedback to the LX.lab team from our academic community revealed issues with the Turnitin assignment setup in Canvas – primarily, that it was a complicated process and involved too many steps, thus...

Cross-Cultural collaboration: UTS shares transdisciplinary expertise in Latin America

By Jane Easton,

What does a university in Mexico City, a German transdisciplinary methods centre and the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at UTS have in common? A passion for innovative research and education that cross boundaries to create social and environmental change. Associate Professor Dena Fam from ISF and Professor Ulli...

Waraburra Nura: an oasis of Indigenous resources

By Kathryn Ayrton,

Welcome to the ‘Happy Wanderer’s Place’ – an open space for visitors to connect to Country in an urban environment.

Book review: Understanding how we learn

By Richard Ingold,

Learning and research. The raison d’être of universities. But what does research tell us about the process of learning? Cognitive scientists, Yana Weinstein and Megan Sumeracki, have made it their goal to not only research learning, but to answer and disseminate research findings to teachers, students and the general...

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