2024 UTS Learning and Teaching Awards and Citations
The full list of UTS Learning and Teaching Award winners as announced at the 2024 Learning and Teaching Forum.
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CourseLoop is here: get looped in on our new curriculum management system
The replacement of CIS and OCAP introduces changes to subject information in Canvas (previously subject outlines) and to the UTS Handbook.
7 questions (and answers) on assessment reform at UTS
Follow-up FAQs from the Learning and Teaching Forum's presentation on the future of assessment.
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Dynamic Online Learning: The Zoom Classroom
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
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
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
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
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
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...
Blog like a boss: top tips & things to avoid
There’s one question to keep front of mind whenever you write any piece of content – why should the audience care? If you want your blog to find and engage an audience, you need to keep them in mind from the beginning. Here are 5 blog writing tips keeping...
Transformation: how it’s making a difference
This year, we embarked on one of our biggest learning and teaching programs at UTS with the LX Transformation. Our move to Canvas, starting with postgraduate courses, is an opportunity to match our digital environment to the campus experience, as well as an opportunity to transform the student experience...
Words of wisdom from our Futures contributors
With a wide-ranging learning and teaching community at UTS, we’re lucky at Futures to work with experienced and knowledgable practitioners who generously share their ideas with us and the wider community through blog posts. 2019 was another year of excellent content, and we’re proud to share some of our...
Lessons from a U:PASS leader, one year in
Abbey Warren is a second year Bachelor of Biotechnology and Bachelor of Business student who leads in Cell Biology and Genetics as a U:PASS leader. U:PASS Leaders are high achieving students who facilitate study classes in a range of first and second year subjects. I’ve never been as nervous...
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