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Welcome 2021 AAUT Assessors

19 October, 2021

A big welcome and thank-you to the 159 assessors from across 38 Australian universities who have graciously volunteered their time to review this year’s National Teaching Award submissions. The sector greatly appreciates your commitment and input!!

Acknowledgement 2018 to 2021 Institutional Contact Officials

12 October, 2021

It has been so impressive to have a wonderful team of ICOs, over the past three years, that have contributed to the success of the national teaching awards. We thank all the past and current Institutional Contact Officers (ICOs).

The Australian Award for University Teacher of the Year: 1997 to 1999

30 September, 2021

Take a trip down the memory lane, the first recipient of the Australian Award for University Teacher of the Year (previously Prime Minister Award) Prof. Charles Thomas Stannage (1997), the first woman recipient Prof. Angela Carbone (1998), and Dr Geoffrey Waugh (1999).

The Australian Awarded University Teachers’ Network (AAUTN) provides support, promotion and networking opportunities for Australia’s award winning teachers, in order to champion excellence in learning and teaching.

The Network is comprised of outstanding university educators, all of whom have received Australian University Teacher of the Year Awards, Awards for Teaching Excellence or Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

This website is designed to showcase and promote these teachers and provide them with an online resource for networking, professional development, mentoring and career support. It is also intended to be a resource for aspiring award applicants, providing information and advice on preparing for and developing an award application.

For more details on Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT), please visit AAUT-UA website.

Associate Professor Jack Wang challenges his students to become citizen scientists in the digital age, who learn through creating, analysing, and communicating scientific findings to the masses. Jack embeds disease outbreak scenarios into his teaching, which are brought to life through interactive classroom discussions, audio-visual stimulus, and hands-on Undergraduate Research Experiences. His students are involved in innovative blended learning activities - they participate in crowd-sourced citizen science research projects to discover novel therapeutics against global pandemics and create videos and podcasts to explain their original findings to the general public. To deliver individualised feedback for these multimedia-orientated assessment tasks, Jack developed a new learning analytics platform, which identified consistent gaps in students’ technological and digital literacy. He is a strong advocate for student digital equity, and serves on an interdisciplinary panel promoting sector-wide support for digital literacy. To further this cause, in 2015 Jack launched the Communication Ambassador Program – a nationwide initiative providing multimedia and communication training for early-career scientists. Jack’s work has been funded by faculty, institutional, and external grants, and disseminated through scholarly publications, invited presentations, and peer-mentoring of academics through Advance HE. Jack Wang is a recognised leader in Science Education, and has transformed learning for thousands of graduates.