Cirrus@Austlit

In 2016, AustLit Director, Kerry Kilner was awarded a Technology Enhanced Learning Grant from The University of Queensland's Institute of Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITaLi). That grant allowed the AustLit team to work closely with a group of teaching staff in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science to adapt the AustLit content management platform to suit teaching and learning activities across a range of humanities disciplines. Courses using the AusArts platform included philosophy, drama, literary studies, Roman Art and Indigenous Australian Art, research methods and professional writing.

More than 400 students used the platform for a range of assessment activities including image and text annotation and long-form essay writing. It is the essays, or online exhibitions, we are showcasing here. High-achieving students were offered the opportunity to revise their essays for publication. On the tiles below, you will find links to examples of excellent student work completed on the AusArts platform. Select one of the tiles below to see the student work from that area.

From 2017, with help from another teaching innovation grant, the platform will be launched under the name, Cirrus, with an expanded range of student assessment options. For further information, contact: info-austlit@austlit.edu.au.

Go to Explore pages to see more exemplary student work from The University of Queensland, the home of AustLit.