2015 Grants Awarded

As a key Teaching and Learning priority, the Grants support staff in re-engineering their approaches to teaching and learning in line with the learning.futures strategy, incorporating the UTS Model of Learning,  Learning2014 practices and the Graduate Attributes Project. They encourage engagement with recent developments in higher education including flipped learning, innovative uses of learning spaces, collaborative technologies, transdisciplinary and inquiry-based learning, and learning analytics.

Recipient	Project	faculty
Renu Agarwal	A collaborative tool for enhancing Design Thinking - Enriching existing INNOSPACE for attaining effective student engagement and creating the conditions for best practice for feedback and evaluation through mobile access and a graphical interface	Business
Deborah Edwards, Carmel Foley & Kerry Hunter	Learning Analytics for Graduate Attributes: Business School Masters Research Project (capstone)	Business & IML
Amanda White	Developing and assuring online communication skills via a video interview assessment in a flipped learning environment	Business
Theresa Anderson	"Seeing betwee the lines": ideation and thinking visually for learning and teaching	CIC
Alexandra Crosby, Joanne Kinniburgh, & Michael Hromek	Working together for Indigenous design, architecture and building curricula	DAB
Eurydice Aroney & Jenna Price	Dipping into data: an introduction to data journalism for entry level students in a journalism degree	FASS
Jeffrey Browitt	Testing the conversion of a flipped subject into a combined face-to-face and distance education subject	FASS
Andrew Jakubowicz	Transnational Media: from flipped lectures to discovery workshops for improved student learning	FASS
Kimberley Pressick-Kilborn & Jenna Price	Further work on Speaking Up	FASS
Vessalas Kirk & Anne Gardner	Redesigning a core civil engineering postgraduate subject for flipped education	FEIT
Sue Dean	Enhancing self-care skills of first year nursing students by incorporating mindfulness based experiences into curricula	Health
Louise Hickman	The BRIDGE Project: bridging the evidence practice gap, implementing and testing existing and new innovations in a postgraduate health Master's Degree (Coursework) students capstone experience and/or piece of scholarship	Health
Rachel Smith	Introducing, evaluating and embedding a new 'Screening for Domestic Violence in Pregnancy' resource into the midwifery curriculum	Health
Claudia Virdun	Growing Indigenous cultural respect across the Bachelor of Nursing (BN) program: Shifting perspectives	Health
Rosalie Goldsmith	Tailoring online academic literacy development modules: embedding flexible and individualised discipline-specific literacies into FEIT & Science cohorts	IML
Thalia Anthony	Building from Indigenous Knowledges in Law: Working Towards Students' Indigenous Cultural Competency in UTS Law Programs	Law
Leanne Houston	Equipping Students for the Real World of Administrative Law by Transitioning from the Substantive to the Practical	Law
Alison Beavis	' 'CLARA-fying' learning - developing the learning power of Science students using group coaching as a novel strategy for large subject scaling	Science
George Herok	Teaching oral communication skills to Science students	Science
Blair Nield	Continued resource development for biology key learning concepts: creation and evaluation of flipped learning activities to enrich student learni ng and improve knowledge retention	Science
Bronwyn O'Brien	Preparing Science Students for a volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Abiguous (VUCA) World	Science
Sang-Eun Oh	Mobile-based, flexible, adaptable and interactive resources to foster best practices in academic integrity	SSU