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ASCILITE 2026 Conference Update

A huge thank you to everyone who submitted to ASCILITE 2026! We are delighted to share that this year’s conference has attracted an outstanding 272 submissions — a 21% increase on 2025 and 33% more than 2024.

Some highlights include:

  • 63 Full Papers
  • 119 Concise Papers
  • 34 Posters
  • 47 Pecha Kuchas
  • 9 Panels and Symposia
  • 272 submissions in total — our strongest response in recent years!

With so many submissions, we now need the support of our wonderful ASCILITE community to help with the review process. If you are willing to review, please register as a reviewer as soon as possible. Every additional reviewer helps us ensure a rigorous, fair and timely review process.

REGISTER TO BECOME A REVIEWER HERE

As a reminder, all authors who have submitted a conference contribution are expected to contribute to the peer review process by reviewing submissions from their colleagues. This reciprocal model is what enables our community-led conference to maintain its high scholarly standards.

Check your APUBS accountWe’ve become aware that some institutional email systems have filtered or blocked automated emails from the APUBS submission system. If you’ve submitted a paper but haven’t received confirmation emails, please:

  • Log into the APUBS submission portal to check the status of your submission.
  • Ask your institution’s IT team to add APUBS to your safe sender or allow list so you don’t miss important communications throughout the review process.

Sponsor SpotlightThis week we’d like to acknowledge and thank our Gold Sponsor, D2L, for their continued and generous support of ASCILITE 2026. Partnerships with organisations such as D2L help make it possible for us to deliver a high-quality conference experience while continuing to foster innovation and collaboration across our community. We are grateful for their ongoing commitment to learning and teaching in higher education.

Wavelength is back!

The ASCILITE Wavelength Podcast is back, providing a platform for voices, ideas, and conversations shaping technology-enhanced learning across Australasia and beyond.

Whether it’s an interview, panel discussion, solo reflection, vox pop, creative audio piece, or Gen AI-supported podcast, Wavelength welcomes contributions that share research, practice, innovation, experiences, and thought leadership from across our community.

Please refer to this page for more information about the submission types and process.

We’d love to hear your voices. Individuals interested in submitting a podcast segment should consult the ASCILITE Wavelength Submission Guidelines.

Tune in. Contribute. Share your wavelength.

Vickel Narayan
ASCILITE Podcast Lead

TELedvisors Network webinar: Nobody told me… Confessions of Third Space Professionals

Date: Thursday 30 July
Time:  11am WST | 1:00 pm AEST | 3pm NZDT

Working in the third space is rewarding, challenging and often difficult to explain. Much of what shapes our practice is not learned through formal induction or professional development. It is learned through experience, through relationships, and through working across academic, professional and institutional boundaries.

What do you wish someone had told you when you first started?

Join the TELedvisors community for an interactive conversation exploring the hidden curriculum of third space work. Together, we will share stories, reflect on the lessons we have learned, and uncover the unwritten knowledge that shapes our practice but is rarely discussed openly.

The session will combine short stories, live polling, breakout discussions and shared reflection to explore what it really means to work in the third space today. Whether you are new to the third space or have many years of experience, your perspective will help shape the conversation.

Before the session, you will be invited to anonymously complete one sentence:

“Nobody told me that…”

Those anonymous reflections will become the starting point for our discussion.

Come along to connect with colleagues, contribute your experience, and help uncover the hidden curriculum of third space practice.

This session will be hosted by Diana Turnip, an educational developer from UNSW

More information on presenters soon

Register here

Colin Simpson, Wendy Taleo, Penny Wheeler & Olivia Rajit
TELedvisors Leads

TELAS Reviewer Certification workshop (online)

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

Our workshop supports your understanding of the standards and is the first step toward becoming 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); September 10 and 11 (10:00am – 1:30pm AEST)

For fees and registration, go here.

Any questions feel free to email TELAS Admin.

Elaine Huber, Chris Campbell, Lisa Jacka & Lisa Budgen
TELAS leads

ASCILITE Spring into Excellence Research School 2026 – final chance to register

Are you interested in Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) research, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), or building your confidence as a researcher in higher education?

Whether you are an early to mid-career researcher wanting to sharpen your TEL research practice, a teaching-intensive academic curious about publishing, a PhD candidate looking to expand your research in TEL and SoTL, an ASCILITE mentor or mentee, or an academic seeking to forge cross-institutional research collaborations — the ASCILITE Research School provides a supportive and engaging environment to develop your ideas and move your research forward.

We are very happy to announce that the 2026 ASCILITE Spring into Excellence Research School will be held at the RMIT Melbourne campus (124 La Trobe Street, Melbourne VIC 3000).

Dates: 7–9 September 2026 (Tuesday lunchtime through to Thursday lunchtime)
Cost: $300 (members), $450 (non-members – includes 12 months membership) + GST

More information about the Research School can be found here.

And to help spring into spring, the ASCILITE Executive has approved a 50% discount for the first 20 paid registrations!

Apply for a 50% discounted registration here.

Presenters include: Professor Michael Henderson (ASCILITE Life Member, Monash), Professor Michael Cowling (ASCILITE President, RMIT), Professor Eva Heinrich (RMIT), Associate Professor Linda Corrin (Deakin University).

Michael Cowling
Research School Lead

OTHER NEWS

Join the Digital Learning Community at ALTC26

ALT’s Annual Conference 2026 (ALTC26) will take place on 20–21 October in Cardiff, and registration is now open. The conference offers a national forum for sharing practice, exploring emerging approaches and connecting with colleagues working across digital learning and learning technology. This year’s theme, Learning Without Edges, focuses on flexible, connected and equitable learning in an ever‑changing world. Early‑bird registration is now available.

Learn more or register here

The EDEN Annual Conference 2026 Recordings

The EDEN Annual Conference 2026, “Beyond Technology: Human-AI Collaboration for Learning and Teaching”, successfully brought together educators, researchers, policymakers, innovators, and practitioners in Porto to explore the evolving relationship between humans and Artificial Intelligence in education. The conference created a vibrant space for critical reflection, collaboration, and exchange on how AI is reshaping teaching, learning, assessment, and the future role of higher education institutions.

Watch the Keynote and other recordings here.

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