UQ Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITaLI)

What UQ Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITaLI) does

UQ Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITaLI) is an internal support institute within The University of Queensland, established in 2014 and headquartered at UQ St Lucia in Brisbane, Australia. It operates as a whole-of-university unit providing teaching and learning services to UQ academic staff — lecturers, tutors, course coordinators and academic support staff — across all faculties and schools. Its service portfolio spans four focus areas: Educational Uplift (assessment, curriculum transformation, evaluations), Leadership and Operations (awards, grants, staff professional development), Digital Learning Enhancement (learning spaces, eLearning tools including Learn.UQ/Blackboard, Turnitin Feedback Studio), and Research and Pedagogical Innovation (higher education research, emerging pedagogies).

The institute's core platform investment is the Lead through Learning (2025-2027) strategy, anchored by the AI Teacher Hub — a central resource for staff to use, design for and discuss AI in teaching. Supporting products include a portfolio of specialisation workshop series (Strategic Assessment Design, Teaching with Integrity in the Age of GenAI, CALD Student teaching, Designing for Critical Thinking, Adobe Express curriculum integration), the bi-annual Ready to Teach and Ready to Tutor Week programs, the Higher Education Academy (PSF2023) Fellowship pathway, the Assessment Action Plan 2022-2027 framework, Educational Media Production services, and Assessment Transformation and Adobe Express Communities of Practice. Distribution is entirely internal: services are delivered free of charge to UQ staff and students through direct service channels, the ITaLI website, newsletters, social media, on-campus workshops, and the Workday Learning platform.

ITaLI is not a commercial entity. It is a government/state entity embedded within a public university statutory body (UQ, established under the University of Queensland Act 1909), funded through institutional budgets rather than external revenue. There are no disclosed pricing models and no separately reported revenue. Strategic partnerships are with Adobe, the Higher Education Academy (UK), and TEQSA.

Name

UQ Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITaLI)

Legal name

The University of Queensland

Website

https://itali.uq.edu.au

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

ITaLI is the University of Queensland's central teaching and learning innovation institute, providing free workshops, strategy programs, and digital learning support to UQ academic staff, with a current focus on AI-in-education and assessment transformation.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Higher Education Teaching and Learning Support Services

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710), Educational Services (611), Professional and Management Development Training (61143)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Learning Content Development (eLearning, Labs, Simulations) (BPAEANAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Custom Corporate IT Training & Upskilling Programs (BPAEANAB), Information Technology & Software (EDAAAPAB)

Keywords

• Higher education teaching support
• Academic professional development
• Educational technology services
• Digital learning enhancement
• University teaching workshops

Headquarters

HQ city

Brisbane

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

ITaLI is a central university institute providing teaching and learning support services to UQ academic staff through workshops, professional development programs, digital learning design, and strategic initiatives. Its primary offering centers on the Lead through Learning (2025–2027) whole-of-university strategy addressing AI in education, supported by the AI Teacher Hub and a portfolio of specialization workshop series, communities of practice, and educational media production services. All services are delivered free of charge to internal UQ staff as part of institutional infrastructure.

Product overview

UQ Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation (ITaLI) is an educational support unit offering a portfolio of professional development programs, workshops, and resources rather than a commercial software product. The core offerings center on the Lead through Learning (2025-2027) strategy addressing AI in education, which includes the AI Teacher Hub as the central resource platform. The product line consists of specialization workshop series covering assessment design and transformation, teaching with integrity in the age of GenAI, CALD student teaching, critical thinking development, and Adobe Express curriculum integration. Supporting services include Ready to Teach/Tutor Week programs, Higher Education Academy fellowship sessions, Assessment Action Plan implementation support, Educational Media Production services, and the Assessment Transformation Community of Practice. These offerings are delivered through UQ's Learn.UQ (Blackboard) learning management system and support the university's mission to enhance teaching and learning excellence.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• AI Teacher Hub Central resource hub designed to support UQ academic staff to use, talk about, and design for AI in teaching practices, as part of the Lead through Learning strategy.
• Strategic Assessment Design: Innovation, Integrity and Impact Series Workshop series providing an overview of the Lead through Learning strategy and supporting assessment transformation; focuses on creating innovative, secure, and authentic assessment practices that equip students with skills and ethical grounding to use generative AI effectively.
• Teaching and Learning with Integrity in the Age of GenAI Workshop series introducing principles of integrity in higher education and examining implications of generative AI; cultivates students' ethical decision-making capacity through inquiry and discussion-based pedagogies.
• Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) Students Module exploring inclusive teaching strategies to support engagement and learning of culturally and linguistically diverse students; examines academic, cultural and communicative challenges with evidence-informed approaches.
• Designing for Critical Thinking Series Workshop series bringing critical thinking into focus through learning and assessment design; participants develop activities targeting key aspects of critical thinking and learn vocabulary for providing feedback on student thinking quality.
• Infusing Creativity and Digital Expression across the Curriculum with Adobe Cross-faculty workshop series equipping educators with strategies for embedding Adobe Express into teaching, learning and assessment across disciplines; grounded in innovative pedagogy, authentic assessment and multimodal learning principles.
• What's Working? AI Assessment Transformation in Practice Collaborative conversation sessions exploring how UQ academics are changing assessment practices in response to AI; academics share current examples of transformation and attendees exchange ideas.
• Assessment Transformation Community of Practice Sessions bringing together colleagues from across UQ working on or interested in assessment transformation to share practice, explore approaches, and connect.
• Ready to Teach Week Bi-annual event with online and in-person activities to help UQ staff prepare course materials for the upcoming semester; includes sessions on AI integration, assessment, Learn.UQ tools, and teaching practices.
• Ready to Tutor Week Series of sessions designed to help tutors prepare for the upcoming semester, covering Learn.UQ (Blackboard) usage, CALD student support, Turnitin marking, and academic integrity.
• Educational Media Production Services Services from the Learning Enhancement Team (LET) providing media production for teaching including video, animation and visual media; available across HASS, BEL, EAIT, HMBS, and Science faculties with best practices for demonstrating concepts and laboratory filming.
• Higher Education Academy PSF2023 Fellowship Pathway Compulsory information session providing an overview of HEA Fellowships and the Professional Standards Framework (PSF2023), explaining the support program and application process for fellowship categories accredited by HEA UK.
• Assessment Action Plan 2022-2027 Institutional framework guiding assessment transformation at UQ, focusing on whole-of-program assessment, inclusive assessment, and trustworthy assessment aligned with Emerge Education and JISC's principles.
• Course Evaluations System Platform for delivering Student Evaluation of Course and Teacher (SECaT) and Student Evaluation of Tutor (SETutor) surveys at UQ, currently undergoing a system replacement project.

Quantifiable outcome

• Whole-of-university AI education strategy implementation (Lead through Learning 2025-2027)
• +2 more outcomes

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability9 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Adobe (via Molly Turner, Customer Success Manager)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026Adobe partners with ITaLI to deliver the 'Infusing Creativity and Digital Expression across the Curriculum with Adobe' workshop series, equipping educators with practical strategies for embedding Adobe Express into teaching, learning, and assessment.
• Higher Education Academy (HEA) UKcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2026HEA provides the Professional Standards Framework (PSF2023) for UK higher education. ITaLI offers an accredited pathway for UQ staff to obtain HEA Fellowships through information sessions and application support.
• TEQSA (Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024TEQSA-funded workshops and resources on academic integrity. ITaLI's Associate Professor Christine Slade contributed to revising the TEQSA Academic Integrity Toolkit and participated in the Assessment Reform in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Forum.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning: Stanford's central teaching and learning institute supporting faculty with course design, digital learning tools, and pedagogy research. Highly comparable in mission and structure to ITaLI, but at a larger US research university.
• MIT Teaching and Learning Lab: MIT's institute advancing teaching effectiveness through educational research, learning analytics, and digital learning innovations. Directly comparable to ITaLI's research and pedagogical innovation focus.
• Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning: Yale's center supporting teaching, learning, and curricular innovation across disciplines. Comparable in scope (consultations, workshops, teaching guides) and audience (university faculty) to ITaLI.
• Harvard Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning: Harvard's teaching support center offering teaching consultations, evidence-based pedagogy resources, and faculty development programs. Closely mirrors ITaLI's teaching guidance and professional development functions.
• UCL Arena (University College London): UCL's center for education and research practice, offering teaching development programs and HEA-aligned accreditation pathways. Functionally aligned with ITaLI's HEA Fellowship pathway and professional development offerings.
• Cornell Center for Teaching Innovation: Cornell's center supporting teaching innovation, course design, and inclusive pedagogy across the university. Comparable scope to ITaLI's educational uplift and digital learning enhancement areas.

Broad incumbents

• Coursera for Campus: Commercial platform offering universities digital learning content and professional development courses. Broader incumbent in adjacent digital learning enablement space, providing an external commercialization reference point for institutional teaching support services.

Regional players

• ANU Centre for Teaching and Learning: Australian National University's central teaching and learning unit providing academic-skills support and faculty development. Domestic Australian peer serving similar institutional functions.
• University of Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education: Melbourne's research and teaching center focused on higher-education pedagogy, assessment, and academic development. Australian peer with overlapping research and academic-development focus.
• Monash University Education Portfolio: Monash's equivalent teaching and learning portfolio supporting academic staff across an Australian Group of Eight university. Same country, comparable university context, similar institutional mandate.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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