ASCILITE NEWS

Welcome to the New Year

We hope you had a restful end of 2024 and joyous start of 2025.

It’s going to be another big year for ASCILITE!

Our new strategic plan is now available. Please reach out (Michael Cowling, Elaine Huber, Sandy Barker) if you have any thoughts or ideas about the new plan.

The 2025 mentor/mentee cohort for Women in Academic Leadership has now be finalised – we are looking forward to working with the mentees throughout the year. Please watch for the call for mentors and mentees for the next cohorts for Women in Professional Leadership (WiPL) and the Community Mentoring Program (CMP).

Please save the date of the 2025 ASCILITE Conference to be held in Adelaide 30 November – 3 December – bookmark the website here.

Watch out for the announcements about the upcoming TELAS workshops, SIG activities, the 2025 Research School and much much more.

So keep an eye out for the biweekly Bulletin for all the latest news from ASCILITE and our MoU partners – and get involved.

Regards,
Michael & Elaine
2025 ASCILITE President & Vice-President

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

Contextualising Horizon 2025

ASCILITE’s Contextualising Horizon will kick off its 2025 workshop series in February. Contextualising Horizon aims to identify the technologies and practices likely to be of importance to the Australasian Higher Education sector in the next 12–18 months.

The workshop series kicks off with a group exploration of the Social, Technological, Economic, Environmental, and Political (STEEP) trends impacting Australasian Higher Education. You need not be an expert in the area, and everyone is invited to contribute. The workshops are designed to surface the issues affecting the tertiary education institutions in the region through brainstorming and discussion. There will be two STEEP sessions. While the sessions will build on one another, you are encouraged to attend any one or both sessions:
Register for STEEP Session 1: Wednesday 19^th February 2pm – 4pm AEDT
Register for STEEP Session 2: Friday 21st February 12pm – 2pm AEDT

In March, Contextualising Horizon will host the Technology and Practice Workshops in which we present the final STEEP trends and collectively examine the technologies and practices likely to address higher education’s challenges. There will be two sessions. Attendance at both is encouraged, but it is not required:
Register for Technology and Practice Session 1: Tuesday 18^th March 12pm – 2pm AEDT
Register for Technology and Practice Session 2: Friday 21st March 12pm – 2pm AEDT

Contextualising Horizon is an ASCILITE initiative. Find out more and read the reports on ASCILITE’s Contextualising Horizon page.

OTHER NEWS

2025 AECT International Convention Call for Proposals

You are invited to attend and present at the 2025 AECT International Convention in Las Vegas, NV (October 20-24, 2025). The conference supports ongoing efforts of continuous improvement by bringing together a diverse array of expertise from around the world to share practical technology solutions, high-quality research, hands-on workshops, and demonstrations of innovative approaches to instructional design, performance improvement, and educational uses of technology.

Our theme this year will be Refocus: The Future in Educational Technology. The conference supports ongoing efforts of continuous improvement by bringing together a diverse array of expertise from around the world to share practical technology solutions, high-quality research, hands-on workshops, and demonstrations of innovative approaches to instructional design, performance improvement, and educational uses of technology.

EDEN 2025 Annual Conference Registration and Submission Now Open!

EDEN 2025 Annual Conference will be held at The University of Bologna, Italy, 15-17 June. The conference theme is “Shaping the Future of Education in the age of AI Empowering inclusion, innovation and ethical growth”.

Registration is now open, don’t miss the Early Bird pricing! You can submit your paper until March 15, 2025.

SoLAR: The 15th International Learning Analytics & Knowledge Conference – Registration now open

Dates: 3 – 7 March 2025
Venue: Dublin Royal Convention Centre

Read more and register here.