Festival of Learning and Teaching October 2023
To help craft a strong and positive future for our students, the University has embarked on a journey to design a future-fit learning and teaching strategy: Education in a Digital World.
Attendees engaged with the key ideas informing the strategy at the final festival event, on 31 October, Future-focused Curriculum: Fit for a new University.
Keynote presentation with Professor Steve Larkin at the 31 October Festival event
The half day event was held at the Flentje Lecture Theatre and Barr Smith South rooms running in parallel with an online session facilitated by colleagues in Learning, Enhancement and Innovation.
Attendees heard from the keynote presenter, Professor Steve Larkin, Professor Katrina Falkner and university colleagues and had the opportunity to contribute to discussions about Future-focused Curriculum: Fit for a new University.
View livestream of the plenary session
View and download photographs from the event
Features of October Program
KEYNOTE
Future focused curriculum and the new university: A First Nations petition/entreaty
Professor Steven Larkin, Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Engagement, University of Adelaide.
This keynote presentation discusses the joint commitment to design a future focused curriculum for the new university as both momentous and profound given the new university’s compelling aspirations to eliminate educational disadvantage, prioritise First Nations success, and achieve social equity. A new curriculum provides the new university with unique once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to shape these reform agendas through its provision of a future focused tertiary education program. This paper advocates that unwavering commitments to decolonisation and the dismantling of colonial mindsets that continue to permeate higher education are fundamental to this new direction.
A full paper including a bibliography will be made available at a later date.
Interactive concurrent sessions on the following topics
- 2022 Learning and Teaching Advancement Grant outcomes
- Marketplace of Ideas
- Embodied and Dialogic Learning for Decolonisation
- Curriculum Innovations
- Heart to Heart - Student-Led Community Outreach on Contemporary Issues
- Judging People, Evaluating Work, or Encouraging Virtue: the Role of Assessment
Images of Learning and Teaching Prize Winners
This year staff from the Barr Smith Library coordinated the inaugural Images of Learning and Teaching photographic competition.
Open to both staff and students, this competition encouraged entrants to visualise the transformative power of learning and teaching at the University of Adelaide. Winners of this year's competition were announced at the Festival and presented with their prizes.
Sian Woolcock (University Librarian), Mr Richard McInnes, Dr James Padley, Valerie Yung, Dr Liz Reed, Dr Mandi Carr and Professor Suzanne Le Mire (Pro Vice-Chancellor Student Learning).
First Prize - Dr Liz Reed
Second Prize - Dr James Padley
Third Prize - Dr Mandi Carr
Highly commended - Mr Richard McInnes
Student Award - Valerie Yung