With the ongoing border-closure to international students the courtship of domestic students is highly competitive in the current University landscape in Australia. Not only was the University sector bound to re-think it's approach to learning and teaching, with a glimpse into the abyss we also had to re-invent our vision, goals and our actions. With accelerating part of the University's sleeping beauties Swinburne University of Technology (SUT) developed a bold plan I'd like to share with the audience.

We took a multifold approach and re-invited ourselves on multiple levels, but for this occasion I’d like to only highlight three major fields

1. LEAP: Learning Experience Accelerator Program. The framework focusses on a parallel acceleration of acquiring new skills for both Academics and students, modelling to embrace the unknown with the ability to admit failure, showing vulnerability and inviting students to take risks. Examples: Adobe Creative Campus workshops, Vice Chancellor’s awards for Learning &Teaching, Learning and Teaching seminars and lecture series, and Adobe Innovation Grants. A "Blended Learning Calculator" provides a quick reference to assess the Blend level of a unit, based on Swinburne’s Blended Learning Strategy.

2. WIL: Work integrated Learning means to successfully pathway our students into industry. Every undergraduate student will receive work integrated learning and real industry experience during their degree. Learning by doing, Mastery through practice is our pedagogy of choice. (Example Salesforce)

3. Swinburne: next gen_now: new branding, new slogan, connecting the future with the present

Swinburne University of Technology – living up to its name:
as a dual-sector university of technology, born of a technical college, Swinburne has technology in its DNA.

“Pedagogy before technology” is the driver and–“People and technology working together to build a better world” our vision.