ASCILITE NEWS

LD – SIG March Webinar: Doing scholarship of teaching and learning as a third space professional

Date: Friday 21 March 2025
Time: 12 pm (AEDT)
Presenter: Dr. Lynette Pretorius

Third space professionals navigate the intersection of academic and professional work. During this session, we will explore the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) and its relevance to your practice as a third space professional.

This session will provide practical strategies for conducting research on your own teaching and learning activities, offering insights into how you can systematically investigate and enhance your educational practice. We will discuss effective approaches to designing SoTL inquiries, gathering and analysing evidence, and disseminating findings.

Additionally, we will explore how engaging in SoTL can serve as a valuable means of evidencing impact for awards, promotions, and career development.

Register here

Kashmira Dave, Leanne Ngo, Keith Heggart, Kate Mitchell
LD-SIG leads

TELedvisors – SIG March Webinar: Working in the Higher Education Third Space

Date: Thursday 27 March 2025
Time: 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm (AEDT)Third space practitioners working in higher education strive to enable and support better learning and teaching using their professional expertise. They can face a number of challenges in building relationships and contributing to the decision-making which directly impacts their work.

This webinar draws on two publications from the recent Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education special issue on the third space.

A narrative account of third space technology enhanced learning and teaching roles working in Australian higher education: Meredith Hinze (UniMelb) and Kashmira Dave (Uni New England) will discuss their paper exploring the nature of several key third space roles and connections between their professional identity, professional relationships and organisational context.

Institutional responsibility and third space professionals: a call for structural change to embrace ambiguity: Evonne Irwin (UniMelb) will then discuss her paper examining the need for more effective communication, inclusion, and opportunity creation for third space practitioners in higher ed.

The session will conclude with discussion of issues arising from these papers and consideration of what we can do about them.

Register here to access the webinar and/or the webinar recording.

Colin Simpson, Wendy Taleo, Penny Wheeler
TELedvisors leads

ASCILITE April Webinar: AI-powered pedagogy: Exploring the effectiveness of Generative AI as a learning assistant in the ICT discipline

Date: Thursday 17 April 2025
Time: 11:00 am (AEDT)
The growing use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in education is transforming learning experiences, raising important questions about its benefits and challenges. In this webinar, the presenter Associate Professor Ritesh Chugh (CQUniversity’s School of Engineering and Technology) will discuss the outcomes of a project funded by the Australasian Council of Deans of Information and Communications Technology that explored the role of GenAI as a learning assistant in ICT education. Discover how GenAI enhances learning through personalized feedback, code diagnostics, and adaptive support—while tackling challenges like accuracy, ethics, and responsible adoption.

This session unveils the GenAI Adoption Model, a framework for integrating AI-powered learning responsibly. Plus, get an exclusive look at the GenAI Toolkit—a practical resource designed to help institutions implement AI-driven education effectively.

Don’t miss this deep dive into the future of AI in higher education!

Registration for the webinar: Registration link
Join the Zoom Meeting here.

Kwong Nui Sim, Karine Cosgrove
ASCILITE Webinar leads

TELAS Reviewer Certification workshop on campus at The University of Sydney – April 9

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.

The next TELAS Reviewer Certification Workshop is now open for registration.
Location: The workshop will be conducted at The University of Sydney
Date: Wednesday April 9
Time: 9-4.30pm (AEST)
Cost: $385 (members); $535 (non-members – includes 12 month ASCILITE membership fee). All incl. GST

Cost includes food.

For further details and to register, visit the TELAS website.
Please direct any queries and/or expressions of interest to TELAS admin.

Elaine Huber, Lisa Jacka, Chris Campbell
TELAS leads

CMALT (Certified Membership of ALT) Week 2025

Date: 28 April – 2 May 2025

The CMALT Accreditation Framework offers pathways to peer-assessed accreditation for Learning Technology professionals both in the UK and internationally. It caters to professionals who are actively involved in understanding, managing, researching, supporting, or enabling learning through the use of Learning Technology.

The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) is running CMALT week – a group of activities and events dedicated to celebrating the CMALT Accreditation Framework, supporting CMALT candidates and assessors, and welcoming new certified members.

Read more about CMALT Week 2025 here (please note times are in GMT).

For more information on CMALT via your ASCILITE membership, see the information available here.

Thomas Cochrane
CMALT lead

OTHER NEWS

ALT – OER25: Speaking Truth to Power: Open Education and AI in the Age of Populism

Date: 23-24 June 2025
Location: Resource for London

ALT are pleased to share that the Call for Proposals for the Open Education Conference 2025 is now open.Conference Theme: As the narratives on artificial intelligence (AI) gather traction and populist movements dominate public debates, Open Education faces new challenges and opportunities. The conference will consider the future of Open Education in a changing world and explore these key questions;

How can we adapt Open Education Practices (OEP) and Open Educational Resources (OER) when AI makes content creation easier but less transparent?
Generative AI can produce unlimited educational material, but its reliance on existing content raises questions about originality, accuracy, and ethics. What legal and ethical issues arise from the undeclared use of open content by AI?
How can open learning and open knowledge remain a public good in a time of political and media polarisation? How can open practitioners support each other through these challenges?
“F you AI!”: How can Open Educational Practices and Resources provide critical, compassionate and equitable approaches to education that resist the dominant, populist AI narratives around transformation, increased productivity and personalisation of education?

Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to showcase innovative practices, groundbreaking projects, and impactful research exploring Open Education in a changing world.

Call for Papers: Scholarship of Learning and Teaching (SoLT) Conference 2025

Submissions are open for Scholarship of Learning and Teaching (SoLT) Conference hosted by TAFE Queensland on the 2^nd at 3^rd of July in South Bank, Queensland. This years conference theme is “Empowering education through confidence and change”. We welcome abstract, paper and poster submissions focus on topics that related to one following tracks;

Track 1: Embracing teaching and learning innovations in AI
Track 2: Empowering tertiary education harmonisation
Track 3: Embracing educational justice, integrity and inclusivity
Track 4: Empowering partnerships and community engagement
Track 5: Empowering quality assurance
Track 6: Embracing scholarship and research initiatives

Paper deadline: 31 March 2025

Further information is available here.