2016 Grants Awarded

As a key Teaching and Learning priority, the Vice-Chancellor's grants support staff to re-engineer 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, along with the requirements of Academic Calendar 2016. They encourage engagement with recent developments in higher education including flipped learning; the increasing development of open, digital libraries; innovative uses of learning spaces; collaborative technologies; transdisciplinary and inquiry-based learning; and learning analytics. 

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Faculty
Robin Braun   Studio approaches in FEIT   FEIT
Janet Chelliah   Flipping the textbook: Student-created textbook for Masters of Data Science and Innovation students   Library
Yvonne Davila            Enhancing student and teacher engagement in flipped learning across undergraduate Science using the Flipped Teaching and Flipped Learner Framework            Science
Angela Dawson   MAAP-it: a Multi-professional Asset based approach to learning in Adolescent Public health   Health
Sue Dean   Walking in consumers' shoes: authenticity in learning experience and assessment   Health
Annette Dowd & Matthew Arnold   Evaluating the impact of authentic assessment on the development of students' professional skills promoted by an apprenticeship-style project   Science
Dena Fam   Scoping, developing, trialing and evaluating resources to support transdisciplinary learning, teaching, design and research in higher education   ISF
Rosemarie Hogan   Enhancing midwifery students' cultural empathy and their capacity to deliver culturally competent care   Health
Elaine Huber   Development of an online interactive evaluation-planning instrument for learning and teaching projects   IML
Simon Knight   Participatory design and evaluation of an online learning and industry mentoring 'space' for postgraduates   CIC
Sang-Eun Oh   Embedding discipline-specific content to foster contextualised learning in UTS Avoiding Plagiarism Website   SSU
Chris Reidy   Piloting a Transdisciplinary Learning Lab   ISF
Julie Robert   Academic Skills for In-Country Study Success: Online Learning Modules for High-Stakes Assessment in Distance Learning   FASS
Jurgen Schulte   Course Pathways: Making informed choices        Science
Illaria Vanni Accarigi   Neighborhoods and Stories: using WordPress to develop authentic learning projects with international students   FASS
Sean Walsh   Learning core group dynamic theory through annotated visualisation: negotiating meaning from collaborative learning experiences and developing key professional skills   Science
Jon Wardle   Translating primary health care leadership theory into practice: implementing learning for real world application   Health
Amanda White & Nelson Ma   Oral communication skills, professional skills, employment skills   Business
Amanda White & Nicole Sutton   Improving written communication skills through the use of AWA            Business

 

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.