Future Learning Fellows

Future Learning Fellowships provide opportunities for creative academics to participate in leading the Learning2014 initiative.

Fellows are expected to develop innovative practices in face-to-face and online teaching and learning while using their experience to mentor and collaborate with their colleagues in exploring educational practices and evaluating their benefits for various disciplines. The fellowships support particular projects to foster within and across faculties to foster discussions and the development of communities of practice.

Four Future Learning Fellows were chosen in 2012:

Associate Professor Bronwyn O'Brien

Project: Catalysing a key shift away from paper-based exams by reconceiving assessment to align with the values and practices of scientists.
Associate Professor O'Brien talks aobut the real power of the teaching and research nexus:

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Dr Mel Edwards

Project: Prototyping and testing flipped classroom techniques in subjects with large student populations.
Dr Edwards explains her take on the "flipped classroom":

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Senior Lecturer Anne Gardner

Project: Using out-of-class systems to add value to in-class activities.
Ms Gardner talks about developing a collaborative learning framework and how this supports student learning:

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Lecturer Jennifer Macdonald

Project: Developing project-based learning and implementing novel collaborative, multi-disciplinary courses.
Ms Macdonald talks about strategies for engaging students:

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As members of the Learning2014 Leaders Action Group, UTS’s Future Learning Fellows collaborate in initiatives such as:

• organising activities (such as forums) in their faculties to engage others and initiate discussion and action
• developing creative ways to document Learning2014 developments and cases of practice
• designing ways of enabling all UTS teaching staff to engage with these developments and initiatives (for example, considering digital media approaches, steering the development of the Learning2014 website)