Learning Futures Community of Interest
We meet monthly via Zoom to showcase learning and teaching practiceThe Learning Futures Community of Interest welcomes all University staff to share their experiences, expertise, and ideas about learning design and the opportunities (and challenges) brought about by the ever-changing educational landscape and developing technology.
All UoA staff members are welcome, so please subscribe to the mailing list and we will send the relevant details directly to you, including a link to add our meetings to your calendar.
3rd Thursday of each month (February – November)
2 – 3.30pm
online
The confirmed dates for 2025 are: 20 February, 20 March, 10 April (moved due to Easter weekend), 15 May, 19 June, 17 July, 21 August, 18 September, 16 October and 20 November.
Calendar invites to the sessions will be sent through a Microsoft Teams channel, which also provides a place for conversation.*
Subscribe to the Learning Futures CoI
Please use your University of Auckland staff email address
* New University of Auckland subscribers are added to the MS Teams channel. If you don’t have access after a day or so, please email us.
In April: Focus on sustainability
Thursday, 10 April, 2 – 3.30pm
Join us for our next Learning Futures COI forum, where we’ll delve into the multifaceted concept of sustainability in education. Expect insightful presentations and discussions on integrating sustainability into teaching practices and assessments, exploring both how we teach sustainability and how we can teach sustainably:
- Eco-friendly or Eco-foolish? Teaching students to think critically and say ‘It depends!’ – Febelyn Reguyal (Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Design)
- SUSTAIN Citizenship Portfolios: Connecting Students from the Classroom to the Real-world through Assessment – Anthony Gampell (Environmental Science, Faculty of Science)
Additionally, as Generative AI continues to influence tertiary education, discussions are beginning around the possibility of forming an inter-institutional Generative AI Community of Practice. This initiative is still in its early stages, and your insights would be valuable in helping shape its direction and focus. Ahead of the forum, we invite you to reflect on what you’d find most valuable from such a community – whether that’s sharing insights, discussing teaching and learning strategies involving Gen-AI, or exploring the evolving role of tertiary education in this context.
You’re welcome to bring your ideas to the forum next week, or share your thoughts as comments in the ‘Learning Futures’ Teams channel.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Our aim is to empower educators and learners through collaborative exploration and innovation in learning design, assessment strategies, and technology-enhanced education (including Generative AI) and to foster compelling, engaging, and inclusive learning experiences. Through building our learning community, we hope to advance university education through innovation, collaboration, and technology, fostering a culture of excellence and inclusivity in learning and teaching.
If you or a colleague would like to share your learning design and teaching practices (failures, wins, learnings or conundrums!), to contribute to the teaching culture across the University, please get in touch with us at raa@auckland.ac.nz