Festival of Learning and Teaching

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.

This year participants will engage in discussions around the Festival's theme 'Transformation in Learning and Teaching' on Tuesday 24 June 2025.

This theme will enable you to share and explore approaches to enhancing student learning, to supporting the practice of colleagues and to achieving meaningful transformation in learning and teaching which has impact beyond the individual. The plenary and concurrent sessions will also provide opportunities to consider the challenges and opportunities of transitioning to Adelaide University.

The following sub-themes will be explored:

  • Identifying, implementing and evaluating enhancements in teaching practice to impact student learning
  • Reflective and scholarly practice as innovation[i]
  • Leading transformation in learning and teaching
  • Transformative learning and teaching through student partnerships

It's your Festival: Call for contributions

All academic and professional staff who teach or support learning are invited to submit proposals for the Marketplace of Ideas or an Interactive Presentation. View the information sheet for submissions, including timeline and definitions of terms.

The program will explore approaches to enhancing student learning, supporting the practice of colleagues and achieving meaningful transformation in learning and teaching.

Proposals will align to one or more of the sub-themes.

The concurrent sessions will provide opportunities to consider the challenges and opportunities of transitioning to Adelaide University.

Submissions are due by 9am Tuesday 6 May

Enter your submission via this MS Form

 

Professor Chi Baik

Features of June Program

KEYNOTE

PROFESSOR CHI BAIK
THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

Chi is a Professor of Higher Education in the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education. Her research explores factors influencing the educational experiences and outcomes of students from diverse backgrounds in higher education.

She has led major funded studies that have contributed to informing institutional policies and practices including national projects on the first year experience, international student engagement and student mental wellbeing. She is currently leading an interdisciplinary Australian Research Council Discovery project investigating alterable factors that impact student mental health and wellbeing in Australia’s universities.

In addition to leading the Student Experience in Higher Education Research Group and supervising doctoral candidates, much of Chi’s work at the CSHE focuses on the development of programs and resources to promote and recognise effective university teaching and to improve student engagement. She runs professional development programs in teaching and learning for academic staff, and currently coordinates the CSHE's flagship award course, the Graduate Certificate in University Teaching.

We look forward to Chi's return to the university after her involvement in the Empowered Educators series last year.

 

Program Outline

Time Activity Venue
9:00am Registration desk open The Braggs Lecture Theatre
9:30am Plenary The Braggs Lecture Theatre
10:40am Morning Tea Union House
11:05am Concurrent Sessions Union House
1:05pm Lunch and Networking Union House

 

Registration and program details coming soon.

  • [i] The following definition used is proposed to ensure a wide range of innovations are considered.

    Pedagogical innovation or innovation in learning and teaching
    Pedagogical innovation is intentional change in teaching practice made to enhance or transform student learning experience and outcomes, including the development of skills and attributes needed for post-study success. Innovation in education is primarily motivated by the desire to engage students and enhance learning, to address learning and teaching challenges, adjust to changing circumstances, and to improve communication and relationships with students. The innovation may be the integration of an existing approach, method, or technique into a new context that is not already widespread in the teaching of the discipline or within a Department or School.

    Sources
    Walder, A. M. (2017). Pedagogical Innovation in Canadian higher education: Professors’ perspectives on its effects on teaching and learning. Studies in Educational Evaluation. 54, 71-82.
    Serdyukov, P. (2017). Innovation in education: what works, what doesn’t, and what to do about it? Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning

 

Images from previous Festival events

Footage taken from the Festival of Learning and Teaching October 2023

Resources from previous Festival of Learning and Teaching events