2025 ASCILITE Awards
EXTENDED DEADLINE
NOMINATIONS NOW CLOSE 1 OCTOBER 2025
Each year, ASCILITE members are invited to apply or nominate for the ASCILITE awards and to consider nominations that they believe meet the criteria set for each award. The award categories available to members in 2025 are as follows:
- Innovation Award
- Celebrates work undertaken by an individual or team of people in support of the exemplary and research informed use of technologies for teaching and learning in tertiary education. Innovation is defined as a new idea, device or process. It is something original that “breaks into” teaching and learning in the tertiary sector.
- The most outstanding Innovation Award: “The Allan Christie ASCILITE Innovation Award” (judged from Innovation Award nominations). Allan Christie was involved with ASCILITE since its conception in 1985. He was recognised with a Life Member award in 2003 (only the fourth person to receive this honour at the time). Allan continued to serve the Society for over 36 years and was on the ASCILITE Executive for 27 years when he retired from the Executive in December 2019. Allan was well known in higher education and sadly passed away suddenly last year. He is missed greatly in the ASCILITE circles.
- Anthology Educational Designer of the Year Award, in memory of Allan Christie
- In recognition of Allan Christie’s lifelong contribution to the sector, this award is professional staff member who has made significant contributions to learning and teaching. The award is sponsored by Anthology, to the value of $1,000.
- Emerging Scholar Award
- Has made a noteworthy contribution in the exemplary use of ore research into technologies for learning and teaching in tertiary education.
- Community Fellow Award
- Recognise the outstanding contributions of individual ASCILITE members in the exemplary building of connections in the wider community and into the ASCILITE community.
- ASCILITE/CAULLT Award for Outstanding Leadership in Digital Learning in Higher Education
- Recognises evidence of an individual’s innovative and effective leadership in the broad use of digital technologies to enhance teaching, learning, and overall performance in higher education.
- ASCILITE Research Grants
- Three ASCILITE research grants valued at $5,000 each – totalling $15,000, will be offered as follows – one Early Career Researcher, one General Academic and one Professional Staff Member. All investigators must be members of ASCILITE. These ASCILITE Research Grants will be offered for an 18-month period.
- Student Bursary Award
- Available to full-time PhD/EdD or equivalent students.
- Life Member Award
- A prestigious award that recognises the significant service and/or sustained contribution of an ASCILITE member to the Society.
For further information on each award, refer to the specific award criteria and nomination form on the ASCILITE website.
Sue Gregory
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Nominate for the ASCILITE Executive 2025 elections – LAST CHANCE
Current ASCILITE financial members are invited to stand for election to the ASCILITE Executive Committee.
The positions being elected this year are President, Vice President and 3 members of the executive.
The closing date for nominations is 16 September 2025.
Notification that voting is open will be circulated to current financial members on 18 September 2025.
Voting will close 16 October 2025.
Results of the ballot will be announced at the ASCILITE Annual General Meeting at ASCILITE 2025 in Adelaide.
You will find details of current Executive Members here and a summary of Executive roles and the work of the Executive is outlined in the document Prospective Executive Committee Member Information.
For further information on the work of the Society or the Executive Committee please contact the President, Vice-President or any Executive Committee member. Committee members will be happy to answer your questions by phone or email.
You will find further details of the election schedule, positions available and nomination forms (see section “How to Nominate”) on the ASCILITE website here.
If you would like to know more about being a member of the executive – watch the recording of the ASCILITE Live! September Webinar here.
Returning Officer,
ASCILITE 2025 |
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BE-SIG Webinar: Preparing to leave your footprints in the sand for 2026
Date: Thursday 18 September
Time: from 12:00pm AEST.
Zoom meeting link
As Business academics, you’re probably under-resourced and over worked, so how do you build time for scholarship? For your legacy? In this session, the Business Education SIG will share strategies to help you chart a course for 2026 to help you achieve your goals – whether that be evidencing your practice, building and showcasing expertise or deciding what your legacy in your space is going to be.
Don’t miss out.
Sandy Barker, Audrea Warner, & Danielle Logan-Fleming
BE SIG leads |
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TA-SIG Webinar: Australasian Symposium on Programmatic Approaches to Assessment, joint with HERDSA Assessment Quality SIG
Date: Friday 19 September
Time: All day event (from 6am UTC)
Multiple sessions covering a range of approaches to redesigning assessment along programmatic lines. Coverage will include “Programmatic Assessment” as well as related program-level and program-wide approaches to redesigning and implementing assessment. Initiatives at the institution, faculty and school level will be featured that includes case studies from a range of disciplines.
More Information and registration here
Matthew Hillier
TA-SIG lead |
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TA-SIG Webinar: Transforming Assessment webinar “Rethinking Assessment: A balancing act” joint with Assessment in Higher Education Network UK
Date: Wednesday 1 October
Time: 5:00pm AEST
Features two speakers:
a). Balancing Innovation and Integrity: Rethinking Assessment Design in the Age of Generative AI, Hon. A/Prof Elaine Huber (University of Sydney).
b). Defining and evaluating original work in the GenAI age: what does it mean by “originality” in students’ assignments?, A/Prof Jess Jiahui Luo, (Education University of Hong Kong).
More information and registration here
Mathew Hillier
TA-SIG Lead |
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LA SIG DISCOVERY WORKSHOP No.2 Making Sense of Learning Data:As our ways of learning and teaching change, so too must our approach to measurement.
The second workshop, to be held on Thursday 18th September from 12:30-1:30pm (AEST) will explore the types of LA data available to educators and researchers in AI-supported environments. We are hoping to surface new or more nuanced indicators, beyond our traditional LA, such as:
- Interaction logs with AI tools,
- Revision trajectories and feedback loops,
- Self-reported confidence or trust in AI suggestions
- Threshold moments of learning or understanding
Crucially, we need to ask: which data are truly indicative of learning, and which merely reflect activity?
Please ponder your thoughts on these questions before our next discovery workshop and come along for some more lively discussions. Please register your interest via this link and you will then receive an invitation to the online workshop.
Linda Corrin, Hazel Jones, Srecko Joksimovic, Marion Blumenstein
LA-SIG leads |
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Latest TELall Blog Post: From Classroom to the Workplace
Curious about what it really takes to stand out in the rapidly evolving world of Information Technology?
In our latest blog by Dimanthinie De Silva (Queensland University of Technology) delves into the essential skills that set today’s IT graduates apart—going beyond technical know-how.
Read Dimanthinie’s blog post here. |
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HERN Online panel discussion: Exploring the Relationship Between SoTLand Higher Education Research – Definitions, Tensions, and Implications
Date: Friday 3 October 2025
Time: 8:30 – 10:00am ACST
The UniSA Higher Education Research Network (HERN) invites ASCILITE members to an online panel discussion: Exploring the Relationship Between SoTL and Higher Education Research – Definitions, Tensions, and Implications.
Hear from leading experts in Australia and the USA as they consider whether SoTL and HE research are synonymous, overlapping, or distinct. The discussion will unpack common misconceptions and examine implications for practice and policy across institutional contexts.
Register here |
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CRADLE webinar series: Secure assessment tasks in a time of GenAI
Date: Thursday 23 October 2025
Time: 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm (AEDT)
More information and registration here
The proliferation of generative AI (GenAI) continues to pose challenges for educators seeking to ensure their assessments remain valid and secure. Bringing together leading assessment and academic integrity scholars and practitioners, this webinar will discuss the urgent question of how to design secure assessment tasks in a time of GenAI.
Program-level approaches play a critical role in securing assessment, but their success seems to depend on what happens at the level of individual tasks. After all, it is difficult to see how course-wide reform can compensate if assignments themselves are vulnerable. The focus of this webinar is therefore on assessment change at the task level, asking: what kinds of assessment tasks work well – and which are no longer fit for purpose – now that students can readily access GenAI?
Facilitated by CRADLE’s Dr Thomas Corbin, this panel will look beyond in-person exams to highlight both emerging strategies and enduring principles for secure assessment in a time of GenAI. The panel will offer practical insights for educators grappling with today’s rapidly changing assessment landscape, and consider future directions for research and practice. |
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The road behind and the journey ahead: CRADLE 10th anniversary celebration event
Date: Wednesday 15 October 2025
Time: 2.00 pm – 3.30 pm (AEDT)
More information and registration here
Join at Deakin Downtown or online to celebrate 10 years of CRADLE , as they reflect on our successes and what still lies ahead.
The Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) celebrates its 10th birthday in 2025. From its modest beginnings with Foundation Director Professor David Boud, CRADLE has grown in reputation and influence as its members have pursued a research agenda encompassing assessing for learning, learning in a digital world, and assessing through and for work. CRADLE is now internationally recognised for its work on feedback for learning, feedback literacies, evaluative judgement, assessment for inclusion, and higher education in a time of generative artificial intelligence.
What is the CRADLE model and how does it seek to influence teaching, learning and assessment in higher education? In what areas is it making a difference?
Join the current CRADLE team – co-directors Prof. David Boud and Prof. Phillip Dawson, Prof. Margaret Bearman, A/Prof. Joanna Tai, Dr Juuso Nieminen, Dr Thomas Corbin, and Dr Jack Walton – for an interactive discussion of CRADLE’s successes and what still lies ahead, and celebrate our 10th anniversary with us!
Following the seminar, those attending in person at Deakin Downtown are invited to join us for coffee and cake, and to share memories of CRADLE over our journey. |
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ALT: Online Conference: Open Education, AI, and Populism – Revisited
Date: Tuesday, 16 September 2025.
In June, ALT hosted an inspiring OER25 in London. We’re continuing the conversation with an online full day follow-up event, Open Education, AI, and Populism – Revisited,
This one-day conference picks up where OER25 left off, offering a chance to revisit key themes and continue the conversations that shaped this year’s event. The programme brings together practitioners, researchers and policy-makers from across sectors to explore what’s next for open education. |
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