Fostering a Technologically Innovative Teaching Culture

[EN] UTS:Insearch is a pathways provider preparing students from diverse language and learning backgrounds study in Australia, particularly at UTS. With education increasingly moving towards technology enhanced delivery identified the need to use these approaches with our students, however as a starting point realised that for this to be embedded into our subjects we would have to create a technologically innovative teaching culture amongst teaching staff.In fostering this culture the organisation needed to clearly articulate the concept of ‘blended learning’ our teaching staff. Following this a suite of strategies to engage teaching staff with diverse understandings of enhanced teaching and the opportunities it offers for improving students’ learning experiences and were implemented. The strategies that were most successful were those that were ‘hands on’ and blended learning approaches where teaching staff could experience first-hand how students could be engaged content through the appropriate and meaningful use of technologies. While the project is on-going, the approach led to 76% of the learning strategies in our subjects either well progressed or fully compliant with a blended learning within a year