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Why can’t we be friends? PowerPoint and active learning
The classic PowerPoint presentation - bullet point-riddled slides clicked through almost as if to distract you from actually listening to a lecture - is the hallmark of a style of teaching that treats students as passive receivers of information. There’s an argument for ditching that slideshow altogether. But Powerpoint...
Showcase your Indigenous Graduate Attribute work
NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. For NAIDOC week this year, we are inviting you to share the IGA related curriculum you have been working on with the university community.
3 data dates for your diary
Telling stories with data, classroom translucence, automated writing feedback: three datalicious events coming up from the UTS Connected Intelligence Centre at the Education Portfolio.
Introducing avs.uts.edu.au, your new resource for using AVS equipment in the classroom
Your new go-to for quick and easy AV support in your teaching.
Rethinking the postgraduate learning experience: a case study from Law
How an academic in Law and learning designer from our PGFutures team transformed their PG course and ultimately the students' experiences.
The Quick Study: Flipped Learning
In our new series The Quick Study, we'll be taking a walk through some key pedagogical ideas and texts as they're presented in the peer-reviewed literature. Each post will summarise a contemporary or historically significant article, providing a refresher or entry point to further reading.
Data, technology and light: what’s on at Vivid this year
It's time for Vivid once again, and there's a packed program of events to choose from. Take a look at this selection to start planning your schedule...
News from the AiR – Place-based Methodologies Podcast Series Part 1
In the past few weeks, we began recording our series Place-based Methodologies @UTS, and you can listen to the first three podcasts on the Placebased Methodologies Wordpress Site.
5 reasons to rethink the purpose of exams and to re-evaluate our approach
We have been educators for years. But have we ever thought about why we are having exams in our classes? What’s in it for the students? Are exams really necessary? We need to rethink the purpose of exams and to re-evaluate our approach as educators.
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