Educational Innovation

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.

A comprehensive analysis of our large and complex educational technology landscape across the institution has now resulted in the release of the Educational Technology Roadmap 2024-2028.

The Educational Technology Support team is excited to announce the revamp of the Educational Technology Teaching Gateway section!

Colleagues from the Educational Innovation Pillar, led by Prof. Simon McIntyre, share their highlights in the 2022 Educational Innovation Annual Report. 

'My First Day: An Empathy Project' is a collaborative initiative that puts that nerve-racking first day into perspective.

Heading towards the end of the year, the six Education Technology for the Future strategic working groups have just finished their final reports, ready to be synthesised into a strategy for our digital education future. 

Learn more and contribute to the conceptual roadmap that envisions UNSW’s ideal future digital learning ecosystem.

The new Moodle Enhance theme and course template are now ready to be progressively applied, in collaboration with faculties, to all UNSW courses from T3 2022.

How can our students engage with media and immersive technologies projects at UNSW? Graham Hannah provides options and examples.

Colleagues from the Educational Innovation Pillar, led by Director A/Prof. Simon McIntyre, capture their work in 2021 and highlight their contributions to implementing the PVC Education & Student Experience Strategy.

Dr Melanie Fentoullis – writes how she harnessed the opportunities presented by the EF Pathway to support student learning during the pandemic.

Introducing the new PVCESE Innovation Partner model designed to improve cross-collaboration and engagement with colleagues in faculties and divisions in educational technology and innovation. 

Two UNSW academics have been recognised for their work to advance adoption of immersive learning technologies in higher education.

Associate Professor Adrienne Torda, Senior Lecturer Dr David Kellerman, and Senior Lecturer Dr Lynn Gribble are all Education Focussed academics who have each been awarded a Citation for outstanding achievements in university teaching at the 2020

David Kellerman has become Microsoft’s gold standard for innovative integration of Office 365 in the classroom and presented to 25,000 people in July 2019 at Microsoft Inspire.

Alberto Motta and Isabella Dobrescu are unconventional academics. They have thrown aside their old economics textbooks and transformed their course into a video game which makes learning economic fundamentals fun and engaging for students.