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By A/Prof. Lynn Gribble and A/Prof. Janis Wardrop, UNSW Business School

The PVC Education Portfolio announces the release of three new self-paced modules on Learning, Teaching, and Assessment with Generative AI at UNSW, designed to be completed within two hours.

Some of UNSW’s projects, led by the Educational Innovation teams within the Pro Vice-Chancellor, Education Portfolio, have recently received sizeable international recognition.

Helping students feel welcomed and valued also helps them learn. Achieving a welcoming classroom is no accident, yet it can be difficult to find guidance for how to do it.

Education-focussed (EF) academics can often feel isolated both from  colleagues in their field and from other EF academics.

Students often feel at a loss when entering academia when they realise that they need to research and write according to a whole new set of rules.

In just one year, UNSW’s Teaching Commons has grown into a thriving hub for educational events and a welcoming space for the university’s Learning & Teaching community.

Diana Saragi Turnip, A/Prof. Priya Khanna Pathak and Prof. Gary Velan outline UNSW's approach to Programmatic Assessment for Learning

By Dr Anna Rowe and Dr Gabi Nudelman

Academics enthusiastic about the value of good teaching can turn to the vibrant and rapidly expanding field of SoTL: the scholarship of teaching and learning.

By Dr Cherie Lucas, A/Prof. Anita Heywood, Dr Husna Razee and Dr Ben Harris-Roxas

Find out how the NSW Higher Education Summit brings people together to share ideas and tackle the big issues facing the sector through open, honest conversations.

Follow the inspiring journey of Irina and Irène, two educators whose shared passion for engineering education turned them from colleagues into global collaborators.

Learn about the development of UNSW's Peer Reviewer of Journals Mentoring Program, which ensures high-quality research by holding researchers accountable and building academics’ research skills through feedback. 

Dr Cherie Lucas, A/Prof. Helen Gibbon, Dr Benjamin Phipps and Prof. Patsie Polly, UNSW Nexus Fellows,

discuss a new cross-faculty collaboration.

Associate Professor Lauren Kark gives the educator’s perspective on teaching hands-on collaboration and creating citizens who will influence society.

Dr Chien Hoong Gooi, a clinical psychologist and an Education-Focusssed Senior Lecturer in the UNSW School of Psychology, discusses the shift to competency-based grading.

Prof. Alex Steel, Director AI Strategy, Education, shares his own (and UNSW’s) views and approaches to managing students’ use of AI in assessments. Learn why, and how, we implement the six categories of permitted use of GenAI.

Dr Helena Pacitti & A/Prof. Jason Lodge reflect on the New South Wales Higher Education Summit 2024, held on Friday 28 June, which focused on artificial intelligence and assessment.