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 May: Focus on accessibility
Thursday, 15 May, 2 – 3.30pm
Join us for our next Learning Futures COI forum, which also marks Global Accessibility Awareness Day. This month, we turn our focus to Accessibility — not just as a design requirement, but as a foundation for inclusive, equitable learning environments. Accessibility matters to us all; whether as learners, educators, colleagues, or whānau, it will impact each of us at some point in our lives.
This session brings together a range of voices from across the university who are actively advancing accessible and inclusive practices in teaching, learning, and institutional strategy:
- Effortless Inclusion: Seeking to Make Invisible yet Unmistakable Impact — Audrea Warner & Jamie Denton (Business & Economics)
- Inclusive Learning and Teaching Practices for Students with Disabilities: Lessons Learned from the Disability Action Plan — Mark Thomson & Eilidh Thorburn (Student Disability Services)
- Leveraging UDOIT for Institutional Improvement, Accessibility, and Inclusive Design — Steve Leichtweis (Ranga Auaha Ako)
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