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Monash University’s teaching and learning blog is a dynamic platform dedicated to fostering a community of practice. Here, academic and professional staff come together to explore, discuss, and debate ideas and issues pertaining to teaching and learning in higher education.
Together, we’ll share innovative strategies, celebrate our successes, and reflect on our challenges. With your valuable contributions, we will build an even stronger network of practitioners extending across Monash’s diverse physical locations, as we collectively strive for excellence in education.
Join me in creating a space that celebrates diverse approaches to teaching and learning.
Associate Professor Tim Fawns (Monash Education Academy)
Recent posts
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PAAIR challenge conversation: How do we balance standards and inclusion in our responses to AI language translation?
This session extends our previous conversation on AI translation tools in higher education to challenge long-standing assumptions about “academic English” and the international student experience. In the context of AI translation technologies, this discussion asks if our current expectations of language fluency are exclusionary or essential to the rigour of a degree. Panellists navigate the…
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Let’s talk about teaching: Insights from the inaugural Teaching Conversation on AI, learning, teaching, and assessment
Mahbub Sarkar shares key insights from the inaugural Teaching Conversation, exploring how AI is shaping learning, teaching and assessment, with a focus on learning process, equity, and supporting educators through change.
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PAAIR challenge conversation: Is Higher Education being brave enough?
Tim Fawns speaks with Professors Michelle Lazarus and Danny Liu to explore whether universities are being brave enough to rethink what they are trying to achieve for students and society.
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Engaging students by fostering critical thinking – but how?
Memorable engagement happens when students are motivated to think critically. Dr Tam Duc Dinh shares five practices and six dimensions they use in case-based tutorials to build a no-fear culture and help students reason, question, and use evidence.
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PAAIR challenge conversation: What are the issues arising from AI translation tools in higher education?
A/Prof Tim Fawns hosts a discussion with international students Tina and Selena, Dr Goh See-Kwong, Dr Helen Gniel, and A/Prof Beatrice Trefalt on the role of AI translation tools in teaching, learning, and assessment.
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Building Connections: Reflections from the 2025 Monash Learning & Teaching Conference
Educators from across Victoria met at Monash College Docklands for the 2025 Monash Learning & Teaching Conference. Under the theme ‘Building Connections’, sessions explored how people, programs, and ideas shape future learning and teaching.
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Making evidence of learning visible at Monash: Beyond detection and invigilation
In contrast to AI detectors and tightened invigilation, Monash focuses on evidence of learning and programmatic assessment. A/Prof Tim Fawns, Prof Ari Seligmann, and Prof Claire Palermo explore the University’s current approach to AI in education.
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PAAIR challenge conversation: How can we respect Indigenous Knowledges in responding to the challenges of AI in education?
A post based on a thought-provoking panel discussion featuring Dr Tamika Worrell and Professor Tristan Kennedy who explored how institutions can navigate AI, honour Indigenous Knowledges, and embrace relationality and diverse perspectives in education.
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PAAIR challenge space conversation: How do learning outcomes work in programmatic assessment?
Tim Fawns speaks with Professors Claire Palermo, Ari Seligmann, and Liesbeth Baartman about designing curricula for coherent, cumulative learning. They explore aligning outcomes across courses and units, tracking development over time, and recognising meaningful learning beyond formal assessments.
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PAAIR challenge space conversation: What is needed to lead change towards programmatic approaches to assessment?
How do we lead sustainable, collective, programmatic change in teaching, assessment, and curriculum? Tim Fawns reflects on navigating uncertainty, tradition, and transformation in this PAAIR Challenge Space Conversation.
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PAAIR challenge space conversation 1: How can we translate programmatic assessment across disciplinary boundaries?
How can programmatic assessment work across diverse disciplines? Tim Fawns reflects on complexity, culture, and collaborative change in the first PAAIR Challenge Space Conversation.
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What’s uniquely yours when artificial intelligence can do everything else? Rethinking how we learn with AI
Paula de Barba explores how cultivating self-awareness and self-regulated learning can help us use AI ethically and intentionally – highlighting that our unique, human insights remain essential in an AI-driven world.