# NTLSN — National Teaching and Learning Support Network

> A free, open commons connecting Australia's higher-education teaching and learning sector: every conference, showcase, workshop and professional-development opportunity across all 42 universities, plus a rescued 31-year archive of nationally funded teaching scholarship. No logins, no paywalls. Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Founded by A/Prof Seb Dianati (University of Southern Queensland).

## Core
- [NTLSN home](https://www.ntlsn.com): the full platform — interactive sector map, events calendar, resources, and recognition tools across all 42 Australian universities.
- [Sector Archive](https://www.ntlsn.com/#ntlsn-archive): 1,431 ALTC- and OLT-funded learning and teaching works, 1994–2025. NTLSN indexes titles and authors; full text lives at the Australian Government Learning & Teaching Repository.
- [Best Practice guides](https://www.ntlsn.com/#ntlsn-bestpractice): 80 curated Good Practice Reports and guides, 2006–2024 (academic integrity, work-integrated learning, assessment, curriculum design, student transition).

## Free in-browser tools
- [The NTLSN Teaching Diagnostic](https://www.ntlsn.com/diagnostic.html): one comprehensive self-review that ties the whole toolkit together — rate a unit, course or whole program across alignment, assessment, accessibility, partnership, quality, SoTL and recognition, and get a prioritised action plan routing to the right tool for each gap. In-browser, no login.
- [Live SoTL Research Search](https://www.ntlsn.com/research-search.html): search current teaching & learning research live from OpenAlex (250M+ open scholarly works), with open-access links surfaced — the living companion to the 1,431-work historical archive.
- [Find Your SoTL Conference](https://www.ntlsn.com/conference-finder.html): a three-question wizard — interest, format, timing — that matches you to the right Australian teaching & learning event from the live calendar (e.g. a student-partnership interest routes you to the Students as Partners Roundtable). In-browser, no login.
- [Open-Access Finder](https://www.ntlsn.com/oa-finder.html): paste a DOI, several DOIs, or a whole reference list and get the free, legal open-access version of each paper, colour-coded by openness (diamond / gold / green / hybrid / closed). Resolved live via OpenAlex; nothing leaves the browser.
- [Where to Publish Your SoTL](https://www.ntlsn.com/journal-finder.html): search the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) by topic to find the open-access journal for your teaching scholarship — filtered to the ones that are free to publish in (no APC / diamond OA), with peer-review type, licence and author guidelines. In-browser, no login.
- [ATEC · TEQSA Curriculum QA](https://www.ntlsn.com/atec-curriculum-qa.html): self-check a course's outcomes against its AQF level (Bloom's verbs), ATEC mission-compact alignment (widening participation, VET→HE), and the GenAI-resilience of its assessments. Indicative, in-browser.
- [Course Quality Self-Check](https://www.ntlsn.com/selfcheck.html): rate a course against the TELAS standards and UDL guidelines; produces a readiness profile.
- [TEQSA GenAI Readiness](https://www.ntlsn.com/teqsa-readiness.html): self-assess a course or program against TEQSA generative-AI guidance.
- [Teaching Recognition Passport](https://www.ntlsn.com/trp.html): a portable, self-asserted record of teaching contribution.
- [Reflective Coach](https://www.ntlsn.com/reflective-coach.html): a Socratic scaffold across established reflective-practice models.
- [Students-as-Partners Certificate](https://www.ntlsn.com/cert.html): generate a printable student-staff partnership certificate as portfolio evidence.

## What the sector can find here
- Teaching and learning events, conferences, grants and fellowships, frameworks and policy documents, career pathways, and curated sector and international SoTL talks, all aggregated across Australian higher education.

## Open data & API
- [Hosted MCP server](https://www.ntlsn.com/.netlify/functions/mcp): a live Model Context Protocol endpoint over HTTP — point any MCP-compatible AI client at this URL to query NTLSN sector data (events, the 1,431-work archive, universities). No setup, no key.
- [Open Data & API](https://www.ntlsn.com/developers.html): every dataset as open, CORS-enabled JSON — events, the 1,431-work archive, 80 best-practice guides, frameworks, and the 42-university directory. Free to query, embed via a one-line widget, or wire into any AI assistant with a copy-paste MCP server. No key, no logins.

## About and licensing
- NTLSN is a free, open Open Educational Practice commons. Paid services exist only to sustain the commons and never gate it. Curation and original benchmarking are licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; linked third-party works remain the property of their authors and institutions.
- NTLSN does not claim endorsement by the universities, peak bodies, or regulators it catalogues.
- [Stream your symposium](https://www.ntlsn.com/symposium-streaming.html): pilot — connect your university's own Zoom (official OAuth) and NTLSN runs symposium registration, the live embed and the replay; sign in with ORCID. In design with founding universities.