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Acknowledgement 2018 to 2021 Assessors

1 December, 2021

A big thank you to this year’s 159 AAUT assessors for their contributions. From 2018 to 2021, we have 609 assessors who assessed over 700 submissions. They have volunteered their time and to give back to AAUT. Among them, there are 20 assessors who have continuously support the awards over the four years.

2021 AAUT Awards Recipients Annoucement

8 November, 2021

For the 2021 AAUT, we have received a total of 184 submissions across Teaching Excellence, Programs and Citations. Universities Australia will be formally announcing the 2021 AAUT Awards recipients virtually on Wednesday 23 Feb 2022, 4pm AEDT. More details to come.

A Commentary of AAUT

3 November, 2021

Professor Angela Carobne, AAUT Awards director, was invited to provide a commentary for the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice (JUTLP) on the overview, benefits of AAUT, and the challenge going forward. Click on the link to read more - “The value of the Australian Awards for University Teachers (AAUT): Building and maintaining excellence in teaching and learning across the nation”.

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.