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A digital experience: why industry excursions encourage authentic learning

By Natalie Krikowa,

A key challenge I face in the classroom is how to communicate to students that what they are learning has real world industry applications. Sometimes showing them can be far more beneficial than telling them.

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“It’s the best blended learning program I’ve done” Scholarly Teaching Fellow, FEIT

By Jan McLean,

This comment comes from an academic who attended the Teaching for learning.futures program - a program designed to guide you to make your classes more engaging for your students, and to ‘blend’ your subject making better use of UTSOnline tools and technologies.

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Dr Yvonne Davila and Neela Griffiths, learning.futures award winners

By Rhiannon Hall,

Dr Yvonne Davila and Neela Griffiths chat to us about their learning.futures award, memorable learning and teaching moments, and more...

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The IML learning.futures series

By Futures Team,

The Institute for Interactive Media and Learning (IML) has created a number of resources to show the benefits and uses of the learning.futures strategy. Browse the guides for a wealth of information on how you can improve your learning and teaching practice.

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How Creativity and Complexity combines fashion and transdisciplinary learning

By Melissa Edwards,

This post is a collaboration between Dr Melissa Edwards and Mark Liu, who designed the program for the subject Creativity and Complexity. Read on to find out why students described the subject as 'challenging, but rewarding'.

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Loopy: An Interactive Animated Visual Aid for Education

By Sean Riley,

Loopy is a new tool for demonstrating how complex systems behave.

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What is the evidence-base for learning.futures?

By Shirley Alexander,

Shirley Alexander discusses the evidence on which the learning.futures strategy is based.

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4 ways to get your students active in class

By Leslie McInnes,

Ever wanted to get students more active in class? You can ask them to get up and stretch, but what about stretching their minds at the same time?

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Last chance to register for Teaching for learning.futures!

By Futures Team,

There are just a few spaces left in the brand new UTS Teaching for learning.futures program. Not convinced it's for you? Listen to what the program's convenor has to say.

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In a nutshell: authentic assessment

By Lucy Arthur,

In a nutshell: in which we explain often-heard but sometimes mysterious educational terms - briefly. First up: authentic assessment.

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