Festival of Learning and Teaching - June 2024
The Festival of Learning and Teaching provides a space for academic and professional staff and student leaders to come together to focus on the education endeavour integral to the purpose of the University. It is an opportunity for all staff who teach or support learning to share practice, be inspired, learn from one another, and network.
Attendees engaged with the discussions around the Festival's theme 'Meaningful approaches to learning and teaching in the age of AI' on Friday 14 June.
The half day event was held at the Flentje Lecture Theatre and Barr Smith South rooms.
Attendees heard from the keynote presenter Professor Michael Henderson and university colleagues and had the opportunity to contribute to discussions about Learning and Teaching in the age of AI.
Features of June Program
KEYNOTE
Generative AI and Learning Designs: Enhancing or Eroding Educational Creativity?
Professor Michael Henderson, Professor of Digital Futures, Monash University.
This keynote will roam the confused landscape of Michael’s thinking as he grapples with the potential and risks of generative AI in higher education. In doing so he explores the role of assessment and feedback and the (un)ethical application of AI.
Educational design is a creative endeavour. It is also a complex, intellectual and emotional labour. In this context it is not surprising that we are excited by the potential of Generative AI systems which offer increasingly sophisticated and creative opportunities to support teaching and learning. G-AI tools are already supporting students in a variety of ways, but also educators, such as in generating educational materials, activities, and assessments. However, G-AI also poses a significant threat to the creative integrity of educators and their curriculum. It is perhaps human nature to hope that someone or something can do our work for us. When we talk of AI collaborating with us in the creative endeavour of teaching and its component tasks, how do we know if that 'collaboration' has integrity. At what point are we handing over too much judgement?
This keynote will roam the confused landscape of Michael’s thinking as he grapples with the potential and risks of generative AI in higher education. In doing so he explores the role of assessment and feedback and the (un)ethical application of AI.
Interactive concurrent sessions on the following topics
- 2023 Learning and Teaching Advancement Grant outcomes
- Marketplace of Ideas
- Harnessing innovative tools for diverse feedback strategies
- Panel discussion - 562 days of AI: What have we learned since Chat-GPT arrived?
- Video and audio feedback: rich, fast and impactful
- AI-Powered Writing Support: Introducing Studiosity's Writing Feedback Plus