What it really takes to embed Indigenous perspectives in our teaching
Embedding IGAs meaningfully can be challenging, but the end result deepens both teaching quality and graduate capability.
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From people pleaser to trusted tutor: what kind of learning partner is your AI?
Ann Wilson shares a framework and 5 personas that help us look at our AI buddies a little differently...
Let’s talk: how dialogic learning and reflective practices are reviving learning
Melinda Lewis and Dimity Wehr share an activity that can be readily facilitated within an AI-mediated learning environment.
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A snapshot of the LX Transformation: Gabriela Quintana Vigiola
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
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.
Meet the new UTS Video Community of Practice: a highlight reel
On November 21st 2019, the Education Portfolio Media Team held a meet-up to launch the new UTS video community of practice. Read - or view! - the highlights from the event, and learn how you can get involved.
Advice from academics going through the LXT Whole of Course process
One of the great things about the UTS Teaching and Learning Forum is hearing from a wide range of people about how they are approaching their teaching and planning across different faculties. At the session A conversation with the “transformed”: stories from academics going through subject transformation we were...
‘A good ice-breaker’: Benefits of the IF-AT card with Eve Spence
A few weeks ago I ran a session on collaborative learning techniques as part of the Casual Academic Forum in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. At the event I was chatting with Eve Spence; another IF-AT user here at UTS. Eve attended my active and collaborative learning...
Does workload matter? We’ve gotta have it
Getting your site ready on Canvas? Wondering what you can write in the “How to be successful in this subject” page? You can Estimate workload for learners and determine how much to assign.
Behind the scenes of the LX Transformation
The LX Transformation is a three-year program with a five-year horizon. In 2020, postgraduate courses will start teaching in Canvas, and undergraduate course teams will start planning their transition. The support provided by the Education Portfolio will be key to the success of this transformation. The services and resources they offer...
Vanessa Scarf on transforming the Graduate Diploma of Midwifery
“The LX Transformation is not workload. It can be an opportunity to lighten your load through the Whole of Course approach, and you can come out the other end feeling so proud about the course that you are delivering to students” Vanessa Scarf To celebrate the achievements of the...
Going free-range: studio learning from three perspectives
Run for the third consecutive summer, Summer Studio is coordinated by FEIT but is open to students across UTS. It’s aim, to create a space for students to work collaboratively in authentic learning experiences. Somewhat unique to the studios is that each year, several of the studios are led...
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...
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