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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...

Blog like a boss: top tips & things to avoid

By Chris Girdler,

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...

Get ready for Autumn 2020

By Phoebe Huang,

In the lead-up to the Autumn 2020 teaching session, we’ve put together a program of workshops to help you with the process of setting up assessment tasks, marking and providing feedback in Canvas, UTSOnline (Blackboard), REVIEW and Turnitin.

Transformation: how it’s making a difference

By LX Team,

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

By Futures Team,

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

By Abbey Warren,

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...

Finding learning technology support at UTS

By Michael Chan,

Error? Arghhh!!! It can be frustrating when you’re having problems with your online teaching materials. Perhaps you accidentally changed some settings? Or maybe you’re just finding it a challenge to keep up-to-date with the learning technologies used at UTS like Blackboard, Review or SPARKPlus? Luckily there’s no need to...

A snapshot of the LX Transformation: Gabriela Quintana Vigiola

By Phaedra Carroll,

As the year draws to a close for UTS with the conclusion of Spring session, the LX Transformation process is still in full swing. Postgraduate course teams have been brought together to plan, map and find opportunities to improve the student experience across their course through the Whole of...

Ensuring assessment integrity: Advice from Joseph Yeo

By Richard Ingold,

What can be done to reduce academic dishonesty? How can assessments be structured to scaffold students’ learning and to maintain assessment integrity? Joseph Yeo from the Academic Language and Learning team gives some recommendations.

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