Teaching and Learning Framework
Curriculum design and delivery
UniSA designs and delivers a curriculum that is practice-based and industry-informed, within an educational environment that allows students to acquire the skills and knowledge they require for their future careers. Our students benefit from digitally enabled learning experiences, innovative and research-driven teaching approaches, and the opportunity for flexible and personalised study.
Enabling strategies, plans and services:
Student equity and inclusion
UniSA builds social cohesion through providing equitable access and outcomes for students from diverse backgrounds. We are committed to becoming the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander University of Choice and provide our staff and students with opportunities to build their cultural awareness and understanding.
Enabling strategies, plans and services:
- Reconciliation Action Plan
- Wirringka Student Services
- Disability Action Plan 2014-2018
- UniSA College
Student experience
UniSA provides an outstanding student experience for all its students. We make available opportunities for our students to enhance their intercultural perspectives, build social networks, develop leadership and employability skills, and contribute to their local and global communities. A suite of support services are available for our students with different learning needs to facilitate their success.
Enabling strategies, plans and services:
- Information for new students
- Information for current students
- Student Engagement Unit
- UniSA Sport and Recreation Strategic Plan 2015-2018
Academic workforce and professional development
UniSA ensures its teachers motivate, challenge and stimulate students’ learning, with our research activity informing our teaching across our broad discipline profile. Teaching and learning excellence are at the centre point of our promotion criteria, performance management practices, and approaches to rewards and recognition for our academic staff.
Enabling strategies, plans and services:
- Quality teaching framework for teaching excellence
- Teaching and learning grants and awards
- Peer review of teaching
- Teaching academic standards of performance
- Minimum qualifications for academic staff
- Teaching Innovation Unit
Teaching and learning spaces
UniSA provides state-of-the-art and technologically-enabled teaching and learning spaces that stimulate and foster creativity and innovation. Over 2015-2018 UniSA will invest more than $400m in teaching and learning infrastructure across our campuses, to support new models of learning and enhance connections between our campuses and with the community.
Teaching and learning spaces:
- Enterprising Spaces: Campus Projects 2015-2018
- Jeffrey Smart Building
- Pridham Hall
- Student lounge
- University of South Australia Cancer Research Institute
- City East campus
- City West campus
- Magill campus
- Mawson Lakes campus
- Mount Gambier regional centre
- Whyalla campus
Teaching and learning systems
Our systems to develop and deliver our online learning and teaching environments include learnonline, the Program and Course Management System (PCMS) and the Student Placement System (SPS).
1. learnonline
learnonline is the University's online learning environment, hosted in Moodle, and provides an integrated suite of tools which support teaching and learning at UniSA. Within learnonline staff have access to the following resources:
- Lecture recording and publishing
- Virtual classroom
- Course outline
- ePortfolio
- Turnitin
- iSpring Pro
- myCourseExperience
Further information about learnonline
2. Program and Course Management System (PCMS)
The Program and Course Management System (PCMS) supports the administration of the University’s courses and programs, from program design and development, through to delivery.
Further information about the Program and Course Management System
3. Student Placement System (SPS)
The Student Placement System (SPS) supports the administration of students’ professional and clinical work placements that are credit-bearing within their academic programs.
Further information about the Student Placement System
Governance and policies
The committees and policies that govern the University’s teaching and learning strategic initiatives are:
Areas of study and research
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Health
SciencesResearch institutes
- Health Research
Research centres
- Alliance for Research in Exercise, Nutrition and Activity (ARENA)
- Centre for Cancer Biology
- Centre for Drug Discovery and Development
- Centre for Population Health Research
- Centre of Research Excellence for the Prevention of Chronic Conditions in Rural and Remote High Risk Populations
- International Centre for Allied Health Evidence
- Medicine and Device Surveillance CRE
- Quality Use of Medicines and Pharmacy Research Centre
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UniSA
Business School
School
- Commerce
- Law
- Management
- Marketing
Research institutes
- Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science
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Education, Arts
and Social SciencesSchool
- Art, Architecture and Design
- Communication, International Studies and Languages
- Education
- Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy
Research institutes
- Hawke Research Institute
Research centres
- Asia Pacific Centre for Work Health and Safety
- Australian Centre for Child Protection
- Barbara Hardy Institute
- Centre for Research in Education
- Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence
- Centre for Islamic Thought and Education
- International Centre for Muslim and non-Muslim Understanding
- Research Centre for Languages and Cultures
- Zero Waste SA Research Centre for Sustainable Design and Behaviour (sd+b)
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IT, Engineering and
the EnvironmentResearch institutes
- Future Industries Institute
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UniSA
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