ASCILITE NEWS

TELall New Blog Post Available

Pennie White, Kwong Nui Sim and Lisa Bugden bring us the next TELall blog for 2025 reflecting on the Community Mentoring Program (CMP) success and its recent publication.  It also highlights a new initiative for the CMP to commence in 2025.

Read the blog here.

Sandy Barker
TELall Blog lead

TELAS Reviewer Certification workshop (online)

The Technology Enhanced Learning Accreditation Standards (TELAS) are a set of internationally benchmarked standards designed to assess the quality of online learning, particularly in relation to the tertiary sector. They provide institutions with the means to assess and evaluate the affordances of their online learning environments and thereby guide quality enhancements. For more information about TELAS visit our website.

Our workshop supports your knowledge of the standards and is the first step to being a certified TELAS reviewer. No matter what your role is at your institution you will find these workshops informative and interactive.

Our next workshop will be online in Zoom (split across two half days);

Dates: February 25th and 26th  (10am – 1.30pm AEDT)

Registrations close Thursday 20^th February – Immediate payment would be required for registrations made this week.

For fees and registration, go here.
Any questions feel free to email TELAS Admin.

Lisa Jacka, Elaine Huber, Chris Campbell
TELAS leads

Contextualising Horizon workshop registration details

Register for Session 1: Wednesday, 19th February, 2:00–4:00 PM AEDT here
Register for Session 2: Friday, 21st February, 12:00–2:00 PM AEDT here

In March, we’ll delve into the technologies and practices that address the challenges highlighted during the STEEP sessions. Together, we’ll refine these ideas into actionable insights for the 2025 Contextualising Horizon Report.

Session Details:
Register for Technology & Practice Session 1: Tuesday, 18th March, 12:00–2:00 PM AEDT here
Register for Technology & Practice Session 2: Friday, 21st March, 12:00–2:00 PM AEDT here

Chris Campbell
Contextualising Horizon lead

Community Mentoring Program Registrations Open

Registrations are now open for the 2025 Community Mentoring Program. This flagship program is recognised by members for its value in peer-mentoring and networking for both mentors and mentees. This year there will also be an opportunity to join a new stream of the CMP Program – the Research Mentorship Program for Third Space in partnership with the Learning Design SIG. Successful applicants for CMP will be matched with a mentor or mentee in the week of 3rd March 2025. We look forward to welcoming you to the program. Read more about the CMP Program /Third Space in partnership here.

For more information and to express interest please see The ASCILITE Community Mentoring Program webpage.

Kwong Nui Sim, Pennie White, Lisa Bugden
CMP leads

TA-SIG Webinar:  Interactive Oral Assessments in first-year

Date: Wednesday 5 March 2025
Time: 0700 universal | 7AM UK | 3PM SG/HK | 6PM SYD/MEL | 8PM NZ
Further details and registration here

This session will cover experiences from implementing an interactive oral assessment (IOA) for the first time in a first year undergraduate course. It will cover the practicalities of the process and lessons learned along the way as well as the feedback from the first cohort of students.

Mathew Hillier, Geoffrey Crisp
Transforming Assessment leads

CSET2025 starts today

Many ASCILITE members may be involved in local events for this international symposium, Critical Studies in Education and Technology, running 17-21 February 2025.

Canberra colleagues and friends are running a hybrid event, with a blog post every day and a face-to-face / online ‘table talk’ session around all the CSET topics on Friday evening (with thanks to ASCILITE for refreshments on the night).

A taster of the first blog post for CSET Canberra: 1 What are our problems with EdTech? is available here.

Any queries, don’t hesitate to contact us via the TELedvisors MS Teams site.

Penny Wheeler, Colin Simpson, Wendy Taleo
TELedvisors leads

OTHER NEWS

AI, Education & Comedy—What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

The Peer Revue featuring Prof Jason Lodge
Where: Motley Bauhaus, 118 Elgin Street, Carlton
Date: Friday 21 February,
Time: 7pm

AI has landed in universities—ready or not. But is it revolutionizing education, or just the latest overhyped panic?

The Peer Revue is a monthly comedy show where researchers share their work with improvisers… who then turn it into laughter.

For their February show, they are joined by Professor Jason Lodge – 2024 ASCILITE keynote, former AJET editor, and lead author of the influential Assessment reform for the age of artificial intelligence document that TEQSA published. A chef by trade, a psychological scientist by training, and an educator by profession, Jason is a Professor of Educational Psychology at UQ.

Expect deep insights, big laughs, and maybe a few unsettling truths about the future of education.
🎟 Get Tickets:  here
💸 Use code ASCILITE for 50% off!
📚 PhD students and uni casual staff email Philip Dawson for free tickets

 SoLAR LAK Proceedings Publishing: Input sort

Over the course of several months, the SoLAR Executive team with close collaboration from the JLA editors and LAK25 Program Chairs have been working to discuss the options for the future of the LAK proceedings publication.

SoLAR would like to encourage all of their members and LAK authors to read this options paper as it could impact the future of LAK proceedings publication. This options paper will be followed up by a survey to all SoLAR members, LAK authors, submitters and the broader Learning Analytics community as well to decipher which strategic direction is in the best interest of our community. Please help them encourage your colleagues to take part in this survey and the broader conversation that will take place in the coming weeks with a decision to be made at LAK25. For preliminary analysis and discussion – they encourage SoLAR members and authors to participate prior to February 19, 2025.