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Learning Uncharted: Designing the Next Possible

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Learning Uncharted: Designing the Next Possible

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Exploration, experimentation, and bold futures in digital education.

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Connection, creativity and compassion in a digital future

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Building resiliency into education and digital systems to adapt to current and future global challenges.

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How can AI and GenAI apps help to improve accessibility and support our students' studies and development? How may the unintended consequences of AI and GenAI make HE less accessible? How can third space professionals help academics and universities to minimise this?

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While our daily work lives are increasingly interwoven with artificial intelligence, there remain some aspects of our work that are uniquely human. What separates our work from that of technology? How do we identify our unique characteristics, and use that to work better with and outside of technology? How can we ensure that we are a centaur (the human parts are the head and heart, controlling the horse parts) instead of a reverse centaur (where the horse parts lead, and the humans act only in service to it).

How do we ensure that our humanity leads the pedagogy, not the technology?

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Why do we persist?

Why do we learn?

Why do we share our knowledge?

Why do we volunteer?

Why do we critique and review?

Why?

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pl retain the my journey theme. Personal stories are powerful motivator

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How do we ensure good practice when class sizes are so large?

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How can we offer a rich experience for students who cannot come to campus?

How do we securely assess students who cannot come to campus?

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Beyond the Interface: Emotional Intelligence for Transformative Learning and Leadership:

Connects EI with leadership, design, and student experience.

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(Absolutely) fabulous

Great teaching

Great research

Great support

Setting up great careers

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Agree with Lynn's fabulous theme. Lots of opportunities to have innovative and fabulous ideas and presentations. Also looking forward to being able to dress up for the dinner but not have to do 'dress ups!'

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British Wedding (with a DJ)

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In our challenging and changing environment how do we leverage our communities, our people, to collaborate, to grow and strengthen our skills, our knowledge, and solve some wicked challenges.

Dinner theme: 43rd Hunger Games. 13 Districts (think Assessment, AI, Student Engagement as the district types) and the tools we use to survive the challenges.

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How are we and how can we effect the change needed

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Quick thought… after 42 can 43 be ‘prime’?

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Dinner Theme! There can never be enough sequins!!!

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Reidentifying University: Paving pathways for enabled, equitable and quality Higher Education

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Architectures of 21st century L&T Practice

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Architectures of 21st century L&T Practice

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What materials, ideas and relationships are needed to transform education

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In an educational landscape rapidly transforming by artificial intelligence, centering "Learner Agency" as our theme offers a vital, humanistic counter-narrative to technological determinism. It shifts our focus from merely delivering content to empowering students as active architects of their own learning journeys. By prioritizing agency, we address urgent challenges regarding academic integrity and engagement, viewing them through the lens of empowerment rather than policing.

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Big yes to the Brisvegas theme suggested above. And DJ

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People power - celebrating teaching and learning in Higher Ed that remains unchanging in a dynamic landscape.

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2026

International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development According to the UN can we have something related for the dinner theme?

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Keynote ideas? Indigenous tech person? Or indigenous knowledge and AI? A learning designer?

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Panel of students as a keynote with an interviewer?

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Should we cosider having a session for ECRs about getting promoted?

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I love Petrea's ideas for the keynote, student panel and most importantly a session for ECRs on how to get promoted. The session for ECRs can also include a bit on how to do impactful research.

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Keeping the University relevant to the next gen

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Keeping the University relevant to the next gen

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discuss ideas for keeping universities relevant in an age of AI personal tutors, mentors and constant information in the age of AI. Is there a need for a new renaissance in our society that encourages students to develop their humane connectedness, knowledge and wisdom through a university experience?

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Different approaches in Gen AI use in higher education:

Use a Gen AI chatbot as a feedback tool, assessment approach or a teaching an learning tool.

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Theme: Education First, or similar.

With all the "noise" of the last 2 or 3 years (AI, senate enquiries and governance issues, assessment problems, accord, tertiary harmonisation agenda, restructuring and cuts, JRG, shifting regulatory expectations, ATEC, etc etc etc), something around the actual purpose of higher ed would be welcome.

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Would love to hear more from Executive Leaders (or maybe I just think Executive Leaders would benefit from seeing the work of conference participants)

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Welcome – Help Us Shape Our 2026 Conference Theme

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