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2023 Contextualising Horizons interactive sessions

Please use the registration links below to sign up for these sessions. The intended purpose of these sessions is to identify the social, technological, economic, environmental, and political trends impacting the Australasian higher education sector and to identify the learning and teaching technologies and practices best positioned to assist institutions in addressing the trends.

We invite participants from across the ASCLITE community and affiliates to take part in the following upcoming workshops:
February 13 12:30pm-2:30pm AEDT
February 20 12:30pm-2:30pm AEDT
February 23 12:30pm-2:30pm AEDT

Please note that these are all different sessions that build on each other. Whilst we recommend attending all three sessions, it is possible to attend one or two. To ensure that these sessions are productive and interactive, please download the following template and consider trends and signals to inform our discussion. We look forward to seeing you there.

Upcoming TELedvisors SIG Webinar

The two ‘AIs’ – academic integrity and artificial intelligence

Date: 23 February
Time: 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm AEDT

ChatGPT offers or threatens a paradigm shift in assessment in higher education, and we are all striving to stay afloat. We know we will change practices – what about our mindsets?

From our last TELedvisors webinar, and from the different discussions that we have been following on this topic, we have all been trying to make sense of these opportunities and challenges to our work. The relationship of the two AIs is a central concern: does our understanding of academic integrity need to change in relation to artificial intelligence? More fundamentally, what are we actually assessing, and where can we support the building and creating of knowledge and skills?

To address these issues, we have invited Dr Alex Sims to talk with us. Alex has been considering these shifts and adapting her assessment methods over several years.

Please bring your questions to the session as we take an in-depth look at the two AIs.

About our speaker:
https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/a-sims

Alex is an Associate Professor in the Department of Commercial Law at the University of Auckland’s Business School, where she teaches a wide range of commercial law subjects. Her primary area of research currently is blockchain technology, and she is an Associate at the Centre for Blockchain Technologies at University College, London.

Please keep an eye on the ASCILITE website for further details including the URL for the webinar.

Upcoming Learning Design SIG Webinar

Inclusive Education: Designing for Teachers and Students

When: 17^th Feb at 12pm ASDT
Where: https://au.bbcollab.com/collab/ui/session/guest/861a796384e54577b5e90f1ecb5b3f0d
Speaker: Vicki-Anh Winfield

Overview
In this talk I will share my lived experience of Disability and how it informs my daily practice as an Educational Designer. I’ll show you how to create learning experiences that are inclusive for both the student and teacher. We will take a look at examples where assistive technologies can be used in the classroom to enhance the learning experience. I will share practical tips on inclusive workflow and my wholistic design philosophy that encourages all stakeholders in a learning initiative to flourish. As Educational Designers, we have the opportunity to change the future of our community. Everybody deserves to learn, and everybody deserves to teach. By the end of this talk, you will be able to answer the question: what can you do today to build an inclusive tomorrow?

Bio
Vicki is an Educational Designer in the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney. She stumbled into the curious world of Educational Design after pursuing a Bachelor of Communication and teaching part-time during her studies. Vicki’s experience as an ED spans several teams and two Universities where she has worked on post-graduate, student transition, workplace upskilling, interdisciplinary, first-year studies and project-based learning projects. She believe education is one of the most exquisite experiences a human can have, but it can also be the most devastating. The psychological effect learning has on student confidence and the student-teacher relationship are topics that currently interest her.

AJET Special Issue 2023 – Call for Papers: Special Issue: Technology-enabled Support for Undergraduate and Postgraduate Research Supervision

Guest Editors:
Dr. Kwong Nui Sim, International College of Management, Sydney
Prof. Maria Northcote, Avondale University
Prof. Cher Ping Lim, The Education University of Hong Kong, ChinaTo advance the field of educational technology in tertiary education, this special issue aims to:

Enhance the pedagogical use of digital technologies in undergraduate and postgraduate research supervision practices
Provide adequate support for the digital technologies used for both undergraduate and postgraduate research supervisors as well as supervisees
Align the in-person and virtual undergraduate/postgraduate research supervision experiences for both supervisors and supervisees
Develop a shared understanding of the conception/roles of digital technologies in undergraduate and postgraduate research supervision
Contribute to an under-researched but increasingly essential area in higher education across Australasia.

We are inviting evidence-based papers including theoretical contributions related to this theme, including but not limited to:

The conception/the roles of digital technology in undergraduate and postgraduate research supervision
Effective and efficient use of digital technologies in undergraduate and postgraduate research supervision
Digital technologies support for undergraduate and postgraduate research supervisors and students
Digital technologies that facilitate pedagogies of research supervision
Online learning community of undergraduate and postgraduate research student

The submission is due on 1^st March 2023. For more information, please refer to: https://ajet.org.au/index.php/AJET/SI2023

ASCILITE Live! CMP Webinar Recording Now Available

The first session of the ASCILITE Live! Webinar series ran last week and focused on our CMP mentoring program, applications for which are due THIS FRIDAY.

If you missed it and are interested in learning more about the CMP program and how you might be a mentor or mentee, as well as hearing from previous alumni about their experiences, then the video is now available on the ASCILITE YouTube channel here.