Pre-Conference workshops are available on Sunday 30th November. Attendance at Workshops is an additional cost to your registration fee:
Workshops Half Day - $125.00 per person
Workshops Full Day - $250.00 per person
Morning Workshops will run from 10am until 1pm with a morning tea break included.
Afternoon Workshops will run from 2pm until 5pm with an afternoon tea break included.
No lunch will be provided, this will need to be brought from home or purchased from nearby cafes. To see a list of cafes that we suggest, CLICK HERE
If you have already registered for the conference and you want to add Pre-Conference workshops, you can log back onto your registration to add on a Workshop by clicking the link in your registration confirmation email. Alternatively, please email the Conference Manager via ASCILITE2025@eventstudio.com.au and advise in the email what Workshops you would like to add to your registration.
Please note, each capacity is limited for each Workshop, so we encourage you to book now to avoid disappointment!
Program times shown are Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST). The program overview below is preliminary and subject to change.
| Workshop 1 Leading Beyond Roles: Relational Leadership for Collaborative Futures | |||||
| Sunday 30 November 2025 Location: City Room 1, Adelaide Convention Centre | |||||
| 10:00am - 1:00pm | Presenter: Professor Kelly Matthews, The University of Queensland Overview: What if leadership in higher education wasn’t about position or power—but about purpose, connection, and collective impact? This workshop invites you to think differently about leadership. It offers space to reflect, write, and reimagine your leadership practice in a way that is relational, values-led, and grounded in community. Together, we will challenge dominant ideas—such as the lone hero, top-down command, or leadership as control—and instead explore approaches that centre listening, inclusion, and alignment across roles, disciplines, and initiatives. Designed for educators, researchers, professional staff, and academic leaders at all levels, the workshop creates a collegial and constructive space for deep thinking and real conversation. Participants will engage with structured frameworks to identify their leadership contexts, surface the challenges and opportunities they face, and explore what it means to bring people along to do hard things—together. Through guided writing, narrative development, and critically constructive peer coaching, this is a space for people who want to lead with clarity, kindness, and commitment to shared purpose. Participants will: 1. Engage with a relational, values-led model of leadership for higher education 2. Reflect on their leadership context, challenges, and communities 3. Develop and refine a personal leadership narrative 4. Practice peer coaching to explore how leadership can align values, strategy, and action | ||||
| Workshop 2 Australian tertiary education in 2040: Mapping scenarios for an unknowable future | |||||
| Sunday 30 November 2025 Location: City Room 2, Adelaide Convention Centre | |||||
| 10:00am - 1:00pm | Presenters: Professor Jason Lodge, University of Queensland and Professor Edward Palmer, University of Adelaide Context Globally, education systems are experiencing significant disruption. Beyond COVID-19 and generative AI, many institutions struggle under increased political and societal pressure. Australia is no exception, with ongoing discussion about the 'social licence' under which tertiary institutions operate and their accountability to government and communities. Within these uncertain environments, it is difficult to plan beyond immediate crises. Global education NGOs have shifted to longer time horizons to emphasise longer-term planning. The OECD's 2030 Project has recently been reframed as the '2040 Project' (OECD, 2024), aligning with timelines set for implementing the Australian Universities Accord recommendations (Australian Government, 2024). The workshop adopts a scenario planning methodology that focuses on persistent issues and what is fundamentally important for organisational resilience. This approach, grounded in Klein's research on naturalistic decision-making, is used in high-stakes environments such as intelligence and national security, where organisations must prepare for multiple possible futures rather than attempting to predict single outcomes. By engaging with this methodology, participants will move beyond reactive responses to consider foundational principles that should guide tertiary education regardless of which future emerges. Workshop format Following Klein's (1998) naturalistic decision-making approach, this workshop will run in two phases. The methodology draws from strategic foresight practices and Klein's research on how expert decision-makers operate effectively in uncertain environments. Phase 1: Participants will develop scenarios of what tertiary education in Australia should look like and what it is likely to look like in 2040. Small groups will consider multiple variables, including technological advancement, policy directions, societal expectations, economic conditions, and demographic changes. Groups will construct scenarios ranging from optimistic to challenging, ensuring the full spectrum of possible futures is considered. Phase 2: Working from the scenarios developed in phase one, participants will collectively develop key trajectories needed to work towards productive scenarios and away from less productive ones. This phase will be situated within the Australian tertiary education context, using the Australian Universities Accord and current policy settings as stimulus materials. Participants will identify specific actions, policy changes, and strategic priorities that can be implemented in the near term to influence longer-term outcomes. Outcomes Participants will develop an understanding of the complex forces shaping the future of Australian tertiary education and gain practical tools for strategic planning in uncertain environments. They will leave with a framework for long-term institutional planning that moves beyond crisis management to consider fundamental questions about the purpose and structure of tertiary education. The workshop will provide concrete strategies for adapting teaching and learning practices to remain effective across multiple possible futures. Participants will develop networks with colleagues facing similar challenges and take away practical scenarios and trajectories as resources to inform institutional strategic discussions and planning processes. | ||||
| Workshop 3 Tackling Academic Integrity through Behavioural Science: Designing Interventions to Reduce Student Misconduct | |||||
| Sunday 30 November 2025 Location: City Room 3, Adelaide Convention Centre | |||||
| 10:00am - 1:00pm | Presenter: Dr Kavya Raj, Monash University Objectives We propose to deliver a half-day workshop to share and explore with participants how the Exploration, Deep Dive, and Application phases of the BehaviourWorks Australia Method can contribute to addressing academic misconduct. By the end of the workshop, participants will: · Understand how a behavioural science approach builds educator capacity to adaptively address academic misconduct · Analyse misconduct challenges through a behavioural lens to uncover underlying drivers of student behaviour · Explore and design flexible interventions that promote student resilience and constructive learning behaviours Workshop Activities This half-day workshop will combine short presentations on behavioural science principles and the BehaviourWorks Australia Method with collaborative hands-on activities, case studies, and co-design exercises. Participants will apply behavioural tools to real-world misconduct challenges with expert feedback and leave with a Behavioural Toolkit summarising key concepts and techniques for ongoing use. Intended audience This session will be of keen interest to educators and educational researchers from higher education, qualified with either an interest or background in creating impactful learning experiences. We welcome anywhere between 8 to 35 participants for an in-person delivery, and do not restrict participation from particular sectors, levels, or industries. In fact, a broad range of vicarious and lived experiences of delivering teaching and learning will only provide a richer body of knowledge, to generate a broad range of behavioural solutions for education. | ||||
| Workshop 4 Designing rich feedback encounters | |||||
| Sunday 30 November 2025 Location: City Room 1, Adelaide Convention Centre | |||||
| 2:00pm - 5:00pm | Presenter: Professor Michael Henderson, Monash University Context Feedback is a cornerstone of effective learning, yet it remains one of the most persistently complex challenges in higher education, for educators and students alike. This workshop introduces current thinking about student-centred feedback practices and then explores the implications for how we can design valuable (and sustainable) feedback encounters across the course and through technologies. The workshop has four broad sections 1. Understanding feedback: This section briefly explains current thinking about feedback as a student-centred process. It introduces concepts of evaluative judgment, and feedback literacy. Building off these concepts we begin to identify a series of heuristics for our feedback designs. 2. Designing for a feedback-rich course: Using research-informed design heuristics, educators and learning designers will work collaboratively to audit and reshape their own courses to support a feedback-rich experience, one that builds student agency, feeds forward, and fosters continuous engagement. Along the way we will tackle questions such as how we can build early and frequent feedback encounters, and explore examples of impactful exemplar strategies, AI formative feedback, and peer feedback. 3. Sustainable feedback delivery: This section of the workshop narrows to the practice of teacher-delivery of feedback. The provision of feedback by teachers is a time consuming, effortful and emotional task. This workshop draws on a decade of research into audio, video, and screencast-based feedback and will offer explicit guidance on how to create these rich feedback artefacts, and how to do it efficiently. Through hands-on activities, participants will create their own multimedia feedback artefacts, testing sustainable workflows and content principles. 4. Debating the role of AI in feedback: The workshop will close with a discussion of the emerging possibilities of AI feedback agents. While these rapidly evolving tools raise exciting possibilities for scalability and responsiveness, they also invite critical reflection. Participants will be introduced to some examples of AI-generated feedback practices, and debate its strengths and limitations to those of human-mediated responses. By the end of this workshop, participants will have: · Applied feedback theory to design a feedback-rich course tailored to their own teaching context; · Produced audio, video, or screencast feedback artefacts testing sustainable workflows and research-based principles; · Debated the potential and limitations of AI-generated feedback. Intended Audience This workshop is designed for educators, learning designers, and researchers seeking practical, research-informed, and critically reflective approaches to enhancing feedback practices through digital tools. | ||||
| Workshop 5 Human-Led, Tech-Empowered: Evaluating Educational AI Tools for Impact, Ethics, and Pedagogy | |||||
| Sunday 30 November 2025 Location: City Room 2, Adelaide Convention Centre | |||||
| 2:00pm - 5:00pm | Presenter: Mrs Joan Sutherland and A/Prof Trish McCluskey, Deakin University Objectives This workshop aims to: · Introduce participants to a human-centred framework for evaluating educational technologies. · Explore how this framework has been adapted to assess AI tools in teaching and learning. · Critically evaluate the parameters of the AI evaluation framework- what’s missing, where do we need to go next- and contribute to collaborative input for cross-institutional development. · Facilitate collaborative evaluation of AI tools across key dimensions: pedagogical value, ethical considerations, and impact on human expertise. A detailed description of the workshop This workshop is an interactive workshop where participants will be required to actively engage. We will be working with Miro to capture thoughts, feedback and interactions. This will inform next steps, and we will leverage the AI features to engage, and document resources. We will begin by framing the workshop with how Deakin’s evaluation framework can support the responsible integration of AI in education. We will explain the origins and relevance to emerging technologies, particularly AI. The workshop will then delve into how the framework has evolved to address AI-specific considerations such as ethics, bias, and human oversight. Participants will engage in hands-on exploration of selected emerging technologies, and apply the framework for this own use case. Through collaborative exploration, we will gather feedback, insights and propose how the criteria can be refined. Participants will be encouraged to continue to engage post workshop to refine their evaluation framework and discuss implications for cross-institutional collaboration and future practice. This workshop is intended for educators, learning designers, and professional staff involved in digital learning and technology adoption. No prior experience with AI tools is required, though familiarity with educational technologies is beneficial. | ||||
| Workshop 6 From Recoil to Reflective: Developing Student, Educator and GenAI partnership through assessment design | |||||
| Sunday 30 November 2025 Location: City Room 3, Adelaide Convention Centre | |||||
| 2:00pm - 5:00pm | Presenter: A/Professor Kate Tregloan, Ms Sarah Song and Dr Shannon Rios, University of Melbourne Objectives To provide HE teachers with:
Higher Education (HE) teachers (no genAI expertise is required) and discipline: a) Assessment Security b) Inclusion and equity c) Authentic assessment approaches d)Building AI collaboration skills | ||||
| Workshop 7 Woman in Academic Leadership | |||||
| Sunday 30 November 2025 Location: City Room 3, Adelaide Convention Centre | |||||
| 2:00pm - 5:00pm | Attendance to this workshop is y invite only | ||||