ASCILITE NEWS

ASCILITE 2025
Conference Update

Call for Papers

EXTENDED until 7 July – click HERE to read more!

Registrations

Now Open – click HERE to read more

Program Overview

Click HERE to view the Program

ASCILITE Spring into Excellence Research School 2025 – Registrations Closing Soon

We are very happy to announce that the 2025 ASCILITE Spring into Excellence Research School will be held at Torrens University, Brisbane campus, Fortitude Valley (90 Bowen Tce, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006)

Dates: 2 – 4 September 2025 (Tuesday lunch time through to Thursday Lunchtime)
Cost: $650 (members), $800 (non-members – includes 12 months membership)

More information about the Research School can be found here.

Register & payments here.

Sue Gregory
Research school lead

TELedvisors SIG WA Meetup – Meeting the challenge of AI and assessment: Final opportunity to register

Date: Friday 11 July 2025
Time: 9am – 12:30pm
Venue: ECU Mt Lawley, Perth, WA

It’s a challenging time for assessment in higher education, and third space practitioners are right in the middle of the action. Connect with colleagues at this free, in-person event featuring pecha kuchas, discussion, and networking over light lunch to share practical experiences of adapting to generative AI, across learning design, managing integrity issues, and integrating new technologies. Designed for technology-enhanced learning professionals including those in learning design, academic integrity, edtech, student support, and academic development.

Register here

Colin Simpson, Wendy Taleo, Penny Wheeler
TELedvisor leads

TELedvisors July Webinar : Beyond Agile: Stop Iterating, Start Prototyping

Date: Thursday 31 July 2025
Time: from 12:00 pm AESTAgile project management has become the default in educational innovation, but its iterative model often clashes with the fixed timelines and limited user feedback cycles of real-world education contexts. In contrast, Rapid Prototyping offers a more responsive and pragmatic approach for Third Space teams, emphasising quick experimentation, structured decision points, and early engagement with stakeholders.

Dr Nikolai Alksnis has extensive experience leading curriculum transformation and innovation across education. Drawing on engineering and software design principles, he’ll show you how prototyping can be adapted for learning design, curriculum innovation, and student support tools. Nik will introduce a decision-based framework his team has used to scope, prioritise, and build prototypes that avoid waste while accelerating delivery.

By reframing your existing practices through a prototyping lens, this session will help you deliver projects faster, smarter, and with greater space for innovation.

Register here.

Colin Simpson, Wendy Taleo, Penny Wheeler
TELedvisor leads

ASCILITE July Webinar: Innovating Feedback for the Future: Exploring the Award-Winning ATLAS Project

Date: Friday 18th July 2025
Time: 12pm – 1pm (AEST)

Registration for webinar here
Join Zoom Meeting  here

Join us for an engaging webinar showcasing the 2024 ASCILITE Innovation and Excellence Award winner—the ATLAS (Analysing the Teaching, Learning and Assessment of Students) research project from Monash University.

Discover how this pioneering initiative is transforming feedback practices in higher education by providing powerful visual tools to analyse assessment and feedback data at scale. Led by a multidisciplinary team, ATLAS empowers educators to enhance student engagement, improve learning outcomes, and foster a more data-informed teaching culture. Whether you’re an academic, learning designer, or institutional leader, this session will offer valuable insights into leveraging learning analytics for meaningful change. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the most innovative projects in the sector!

Kwong Nui Sim and Karine Cosgrove
ASCILITE Webinar leads

LA-SIG July Webinar: Unlocking Indicators of Learning in AI-Assisted Education

Date:Thursday 24th July
Time:1:30-2:30pm

Introducing the “Figuring out AI Learning Processes” Discovery Workshop Series presented by the Learning Analytics SIG

In three interactive online workshops, educators, researchers, learning designers, and developers will collectively explore how we can make learning visible and interpretable in AI-mediated environments.

The first workshop will focus on this critical question: What are the actual learning processes in AI-assisted environments?

• How do we understand learning when it emerges from a dynamic interplay between the learner and an AI system?
•  Are students passively absorbing content, or actively regulating and negotiating their engagement?
• What new cognitive, metacognitive, and even epistemic skills are required to learn with AI?

The second workshop will explore the types of LA data available to educators and researchers in AI-supported environments and the third workshop in the series will focus on what we should be measuring. The series will conclude with a session at this year’s ASCILITE conference where we will present the findings from the online workshops and discuss how we can move the discussion forward in 2026.

Register your Interest here

Linda Corrin, Hazel Jones, Srecko Joksimovic
LA-SIG Leads

OEP-SIG is looking for passionate OEP researchers, educators, and practitioners

The ASCILITE Open Educational Practice SIG Research Group is relaunching, and we’re looking for passionate researchers, educators, and practitioners to help us build group momentum and to (hopefully) expand Australasian OEP published knowledges.

If you’d like to be part of this revitalized group, please complete this Doodle Poll to help Claire Ovaska find a meeting time that works for everyone.

Claire Ovaska
Co-Convenor OEP SIG Research Group

ASCILITE/HERDSA June 26 Webinar Recording

Catchup on the very popular joint ASCILITE/HERDSDA Webinar :
Plugged In Switched On AI Powered Possibilities for Online Engagement in Higher Education

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape the higher education landscape, its potential to transform online student engagement is both exciting and complex. In this thought-provoking and very well attended webinar,  the panel explored how AI tools can support peer interaction, group work, community building, and inclusive participation.

Watch the recording here

OTHER NEWS

PhD Opportunity: Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE)

Applications for Higher Degree by Research DUPR PhD Scholarships for 2026 are now open!

If you’re a domestic or international student specifically interested in the areas of assessment and/or digital learning, you can apply for a scholarship through the Faculty of Arts and Education to undertake your research with CRADLE.  The successful applicant will work on a project that considers assessment and/or digital learning in higher education, and will contribute evidence to inform assessment research, policy, and practice.

The scholarship will be awarded on a full-time basis, based at CRADLE’s CBD location, Deakin Downtown, 727 Collins Street, Melbourne.

How to Apply
If you are interested in applying for a scholarship and studying with CRADLE, you must apply via ResearchPoint. This requires the development of an original research proposal, which should be aligned with CRADLE’s research themes. You should contact the relevant CRADLE supervisor directly with a draft of your proposal prior to submitting your application, and to discuss your eligibility and competitiveness for a scholarship.

Visit CRADLE’s blog site for further information.

Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching MOOC Semester 2

21 July 2025 – 14 December 2025

The award winning CAUT MOOC saw 700 participants register last semester. If you missed out on this MOOC then Semester 2, 2025 enrolments have opened for the Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching MOOC. There are 24 modules to choose from!

This course is for those who:

• teach in higher education anywhere in the world
• want content designed by learning and teaching experts
• seek to enhance their teaching and their students’ learning
• are interested in scoping the course for their institution’s professional development program
• are sessional, contract or continuing teachers.

You can choose which modules you explore and when, but we recommend one of the four pathways: new to teaching, enhancing student learning, enhancing your teaching practice or leading learning and teaching. An enhanced feature is that participants completing any of the four pathways can receive a digital badge for that pathway. Study is self-paced in two-hour modules that can be completed over a semester.

MOOC content is available to universities to share and adapt under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. The course is presented under the auspices of the Council of Australasian University Leaders in Learning and Teaching (CAULLT) and is led by Professor Agnes Bosanquet (Torrens University) and A/Prof Marina Harvey (Macquarie University).

Enrol here; Enquiries: mooc@caullt.edu.au