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2020 AAUT Awards Announcement

24 February, 2021

On Wednesday 24 February 2021, 4pm AEDT, Universities Australia (UA) has made a formal announcement regarding the 2020 Australian Awards for University Teaching on the AAUT-UA webpage. The announcement was presented by UA Chair, Professor Deborah Terry and Awards Director Professor Angela Carbone.

Agenda

Welcome
1:58 Overview of AAUT Assessment Process
4:34 Announcement of Citations recipients
5:42 Announcement of Program Awards recipients
7:30 Announcement of Teaching Awards recipients
9:35 Announcement of Teacher of the Year recipient
9:57 Teacher of the Year video
12:13 Announcement of Career Achievement Award recipient
13:21 Thank you

Thank you for your attendance at the virtual event where the formal announcement of award recipients was made.

AAUT Awards Team New Contact at RMIT

25 January, 2021

Happy New Year for 2021! AAUT Awards Team have officially started in RMIT. Our new contact is

2020 AAUT Christmast Break

21 December, 2020

The AAUT Awards team will be on leave from Thursday 24th December 2020 to Monday 11th January 2021. The awards team will remain at Swinburne University until 22nd January 2021 and will transition to RMIT on Monday 25th January 2021. Enjoy your well-deserved end of year break and see you all in 2021!

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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.