Conference: Learning and Teaching Forum 2025 – The Future of Business Education
A hybrid conference hosted by the University of Sydney exploring disruption, design, and the student experience in business education. Colleagues from other institutions are encouraged to participate.
The Learning and Teaching Forum 2025, hosted by the University of Sydney Business School, will take place in hybrid format on 12–13 November 2025. This annual forum brings together educators, researchers, and professional staff from business schools and higher education institutions to share practices and research that reimagine the future of business education.
The 2025 theme, “The Future of Business Education: Disruption, Design, and the Student Experience”, addresses key developments in curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment across tertiary business programmes. The forum provides a platform for showcasing innovation, interrogating challenges, and engaging with sector-wide transformations, including the growing impact of AI, inclusivity, and work-integrated learning.
The forum includes a second day of presentations under the affiliated Disruptive Innovations in Business Education Research Seminar, offering a focused space for research engagement.

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Location
Hybrid – University of Sydney campus and online
Important dates
9 July 2025: Abstract submissions due
12 November 2025: Learning and Teaching Forum takes place
13 November 2025: Research Seminar takes place
Conference website
More information about the event can be found on the University of Sydney Business School’s dedicated website.
The theme this year
- Future of Education (incl. Disruption & innovation and/or Indigenous Content)
- Transformational Student Experiences (incl. Curriculum design; Managing large units; Students as partners and/or WiL)
- Assessment & AI (incl. Open assessments; Secure assessments; EFTs and/or Marking & feedback)
- Other (incl. PRME; Social justice for students and/or DEI).