Category: Pedagogical Approaches
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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 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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Inclusive teaching in the university classroom: Navigating complexity with care
Erin Leif, Umesh Sharma, and Jayde de Bondt share practical strategies to foster inclusive university classrooms. By considering students’ diverse identities – such as disability, culture, and gender – they highlight how small, intentional changes can create more equitable and accessible learning environments.
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Introducing AI as a collaborator in the writing process
Ari Seligmann and the Arts Educational Design team explore AI as a collaborator in academic writing. By reimagining essays for the AI era, they offer “recipes for writing with AI” that prompt educators to rethink how AI tools can support and challenge student thinking throughout the writing process.
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Building actual and conceptual AI toolkits for contemporary education
Ari Seligmann discusses considerations of AI tools and their introduction into higher education.
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Leveraging AI simulations for enhancing cultural competence in healthcare: Insights from the COIL program
Zahra Aziz and Debra Kiegaldie narrate a story of Aalia – an AI-driven simulated patient and reflect on the role of immersive simulated educational experiences in fostering culturally sensitive approaches to patient-centred care.
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Redesigning the Teaching Excellence Program: Supporting professional development for teaching excellence
Mahbub and Tim reflect on the redesigned Teaching Excellence Program (TEP) at Monash. The program’s ambitious new design aims to offer participants more choice, deeper engagement with their teaching, and stronger peer connections. However, they acknowledge that they are still exploring how these changes will take shape in practice.
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AI and entrapment: A cautionary tale
Sandra Leonie Field reflects on the integration of AI in education. While AI tools can assist students in summarising readings and drafting essays, her recent experience reveals a more complex reality.
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Commitment to relationship-based education
Zala writes about how crucial it is to build on solidarity and educate in ways that develop compassion, care, curiosity, and courage in our students. The role of community building we have as university educators, she argues, is increasingly important as a means of countering technological tendencies that contribute to fragmentation and polarisation.
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What if academic feedback were treated like an exercise workout?
Filippe draws parallels between coaching athletes and teaching students, focusing on feedback. By comparing the phases of exercise, educators can refine feedback practices and foster active learning, with a focus on personal growth.
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Building effective collaboration: learning designers and academics partnering for educational excellence
Michael Lin offers suggestions for collaboration with academics, based on experience from multiple collaborative projects in various disciplines, from the perspective of a learning designer.