Learning and Teaching

Principles
The University puts the student learning experience at the centre of its purpose and upholds a student-centred approach to learning.

The University is a learning community of students, staff and external stakeholders, built on principles of intellectual enquiry, inclusivity, equity, and diversity and produces socially and ethically responsible graduates. It is open to everyone suitably qualified, irrespective of their background or origins.

Students learn through immersive and engaging learning activities, based on critical and creative inquiry informed through research and scholarship.

Curriculum, teaching activities and learning environments are responsive to stakeholder needs and make use of the most relevant learning and teaching technologies.

The University curriculum provides students with leading disciplinary knowledge and practice, presented through coherent learning streams which use up-to-date, relevant and appropriate teaching and assessment practices, and focus on learning experience.

Work-integrated, and where possible co-operative, learning opportunities are embedded in curriculum design.

The University is committed to academic integrity, which underpins all scholarly activities.

The University embraces approaches in learning and teaching which include the perspectives of other cultures, to develop global citizenship.

The University is committed to ongoing quality enhancement through reflective, evidence-based practice, and professional development as part of a scholarly approach to learning and teaching; the University is committed to supporting its learning and teaching staff in the pursuit of scholarship.

RSU facilitates learning, teaching, assessment and evaluation of the curriculum through enabling technologies as well as face-to-face.

The University’s virtual learning environment, educational analytics, and related technologies enable the learning community to engage in reflective practice.

University staff may use the virtual learning environment to provide students with engaging learning activities to support their learning.

The University designs and manages learning environments to be positive, cooperative and inclusive spaces, whether virtual or physical.

All learning environments are inclusive, and designed to encourage students to interact in a respectful intellectual context.

Learning spaces are designed to support a variety of teaching practices and student learning needs.

Interconnected information resources which support student learning are provided.