Welcome back UTS staff! Aren’t you a sight for sore eyes? It’s 2020 and let’s start it off with a bang! So what do we have planned for you? In the lead up to the Autumn 2020 teaching session, we’ve put together a program of workshops to help you...
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...
Amidst all the recent building developments on campus at UTS there remains a hidden gem, unbeknownst to many academics and students, located on level 6 of the UTS Tower. Welcome to the Waraburra Nura garden or ‘Happy Wanderer’s Place’ – an open space created in 2018 for visitors to connect...
In September last year, we launched UTS Central’s large collaborative classrooms with a Festival of Learning Design. What did we learn? In the first of a series of four posts, we share our session facilitators’ learning designs and discover what they learned about facilitating sessions in these exciting spaces. ...
UTS’ new video-focused community of practice video returned in 2020 with an exciting second event on February 6th. This community aims to encourage the use of DIY video in the classroom by providing support and introducing new ideas. The follow-up to our successful first event contained a technological demonstration,...
With UTS's ambitious goal of every student completing an internship or internship-like experience, engaging students can be challenging. Having recently returned from presenting at a video experience conference in New Orleans, UTS Careers’ Simon Jaeger talks about his creative use of ‘lean forward’ tactics to get important messages to...
The internet is a place – it is embodied and material. So, it makes sense that an educational experience online is just as much about ‘presence’ as an educational experience “on-campus”. In fact, for educators, the online or digital component of a subject is also part of the campus....
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...
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...
At UTS, where there are more than 500 courses and over 46,000 students, managing a university-wide transition from one learning management system to another is a colossal task. It also begs the question: how do you manage change on this scale when each faculty is so different? Faced with...
Challenge: The Discipline of Genetic Counselling were asked to develop and deliver an accessible professional Master’s program for a growing profession with a student population spread across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Our response: a new Master of Genetic Counselling program delivered primarily in an online environment. Inspired by...
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...
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...
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