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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What’s the place of AI in UTS teaching?
Artificial Intelligence is here, and it’s making an impact on student learning. From a tool that analyses students’ academic writing and gives feedback in real-time to a nursing simulation ward with an AI ‘nervous system’ to support post-simulation debrief, Simon Buckingham Shum, Professor of Learning Informatics and leader of...
It’s a wrap on the 2019 UTS Teaching and Learning Forum
And that’s a wrap on the 2019 UTS Teaching and Learning Forum! What an exciting day it was with the community coming together to share ideas and projects via creative poster presentations and engaging paper presentations. I loved the feeling of community. Plus, presenting allows me to demonstrate how...
2019 UTS Learning & Teaching Award and Citation recipients announced
Just announced, the 2019 UTS Learning and Teaching Awards and Citations winners. The awards recognise the importance of learning and teaching for both undergraduate and postgraduate students within the framework of the UTS model of global practice-oriented education. A big congratulations to all successful recipients, listed below. If you’re on Twitter, please...
Getting students to do pre-class activities: Advice from Joseph Yeo
One of lecturers’ and tutors’ common complaints is that many students don’t prepare for classes. But is it always their fault? And is it purely due to a lack of interest or motivation? Joseph Yeo answers these questions with a definitive “No”.
‘They love them’: The benefits of the IF-AT card with Kristin van Barneveld
Adam Morgan asks Kristin van Barnevel to share her insights into the benefits of IF-AT scratch cards in this Q&A session.
Teaching the difference between biological sex and gender identity in first year science
The Faculty of Science at UTS has six graduate attributes—skills, abilities, and knowledges which students need to have when they graduate. One of these graduate attributes is ‘Professional, ethical and social responsibility’—indicating that not only do we need to teach science, we need to teach science in a way...
Getting to know the learner of the future
It was a full house at the recent annual Academic Board Forum, where UTS academics and professional staff gathered to share information and contemplate what the learners of the future might look like. As a digital educator myself, and a new member of the rapidly expanding LX.lab, I was...
How to make your subject more accessible
At UTS we pride ourselves in setting a high standard for inclusivity so that students are provided with the best access to education as possible. In this post, I will go through how you can use the in-built features of Canvas to easily make your subject content more accessible...
The word from our academics on Canvas
Starting Autumn 2020, postgraduate courses will be taught in Canvas. Transformation of undergraduate courses will follow, with Canvas replacing Blackboard from 2021 and continuing into 2022. We ‘canvassed’ feedback from our postgraduate teaching teams on their experience in Canvas so far, and asked what they like about the new...
‘All in one’: Benefits of the IF-AT card with Yen Phan
Recently I wrote a blog post profiling Jacqueline Berry and her use of IF-AT ‘scratch cards’. In this post I talk to another IF-AT user: Yen Phan from the UTS School of Business. Yen is a casual academic in the Management Discipline Group who tutors in the area of strategic operations...
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