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Designing meaningful practices to learn and engage | Senior Lecturer @Sydney_Uni | Meaningful engagement | Co-design | Experiential learning | Learning spaces

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Plenty of insights and calls for impact from #HERDSA2025 (Higher Education Research Society of Australasia) conference. Summarised for my future self, and maybe useful for others too.

โœ”๏ธ๐‚๐จ-๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐†๐ž๐ง๐€๐ˆ
โœ”๏ธ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ ?
โœ”๏ธ๐๐ž๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ (๐จ๐ซ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ-๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ก๐š๐ฌ๐ž)

15.07.2025 00:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
2025: Australasian Symposium on Programmatic Approaches to Assessment | Transforming Assessment

2025 Australasian Symposium on #Programmatic Approaches to #Assessment

This full day event will showcase a range of approaches to redesigning assessment along programmatic lines.

Date: Friday, 19 Sept 2025
Venue: Online
Cost: Free

More info & regos: transformingassessment.com/civicrm/even...

14.07.2025 23:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Critical GenAI Literacy: Postdigital Configurations - Postdigital Science and Education Critical Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) literacy cannot be reduced to a universal framework. Rather, it must be understood as a constellation of situated literacies, shaped by disciplinary...

Conversation about critical #GenAI literacies is shifting fast.

If youโ€™re only going to read one paper on it, this might be it. It brings together diverse, critical perspectives from leading voices in the field.

I was pleased to contribute to this @pdse.bsky.social article: doi.org/10.1007/s424...

14.07.2025 01:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Refreshing insights from this yearโ€™s @egosnet.bsky.socialโ€ฌ (European Group for Organizational Studies) conference.

Plenty of take-aways (summarised in images)๐ŸŒŸ๐ŸŒŸ

14.07.2025 01:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Critical GenAI Literacy: Postdigital Configurations - Postdigital Science and Education Critical Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) literacy cannot be reduced to a universal framework. Rather, it must be understood as a constellation of situated literacies, shaped by disciplinary...

Our article is out!!!

Rapanta, C., Bhatt, I., Bozkurt, A. et al. Critical GenAI Literacy: Postdigital Configurations. Postdigit Sci Educ (2025). doi.org/10.1007/s424...

02.07.2025 20:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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New paper on critical #genAI literacy! Happy to have been part of this dialogueโ€”superbly coordinated by Chrysi. Hope our framework can contribute toward new dialogues on what AI-related skills and knowledge people need given our #postdigital condition:
doi.org/10.1007/s424...

#AILiteracy

03.07.2025 07:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Article title: Sensing Ethics in Postdigital Future Classrooms
Abstract
In this paper, we introduce and develop the concept of โ€˜sensing ethicsโ€™ as a relational approach to thinking about postdigital future classrooms that is informed by
our material realities, social and institutional structures, and our responsibilities as
educators towards our students. A postdigital lens on ethics emphasises the importance of relationships and interconnectedness in ethical decision-making, moving
away from a focus on individual autonomy. It considers how actions afect relationships between humans and non-humans. This perspective moves beyond rule-based
ethics, and towards an approach that is more relational, situated, and decentralised.
We explore sensing ethics through three examples drawing on the theory of practice
architectures. We analyse these examples through the entangled โ€˜doingsโ€™, โ€˜sayingsโ€™,
and โ€˜relatingsโ€™ to unpack the complexities emerging in how educators and students
enact sensing ethics and how ethics materialises in their human and non-human relationships. Sensing ethics does not require a fxed defnition or defnitive solutions;
rather, it is a proactive and intentional practice situated in the present that shapes the
near future of postdigital future classrooms.

Article title: Sensing Ethics in Postdigital Future Classrooms Abstract In this paper, we introduce and develop the concept of โ€˜sensing ethicsโ€™ as a relational approach to thinking about postdigital future classrooms that is informed by our material realities, social and institutional structures, and our responsibilities as educators towards our students. A postdigital lens on ethics emphasises the importance of relationships and interconnectedness in ethical decision-making, moving away from a focus on individual autonomy. It considers how actions afect relationships between humans and non-humans. This perspective moves beyond rule-based ethics, and towards an approach that is more relational, situated, and decentralised. We explore sensing ethics through three examples drawing on the theory of practice architectures. We analyse these examples through the entangled โ€˜doingsโ€™, โ€˜sayingsโ€™, and โ€˜relatingsโ€™ to unpack the complexities emerging in how educators and students enact sensing ethics and how ethics materialises in their human and non-human relationships. Sensing ethics does not require a fxed defnition or defnitive solutions; rather, it is a proactive and intentional practice situated in the present that shapes the near future of postdigital future classrooms.

New paper!๐Ÿšฉ

@dewawardak.bsky.social & I introduce 'sensing ethics' - a relational approach to #ethics in (post)digital #classrooms. Grounded in practice theory, we focus on how ethics is enacted through everyday โ€˜doingโ€™, โ€˜sayingโ€™ and โ€˜relatingโ€™.

Open access paper: doi.org/10.1007/s424...

10.06.2025 23:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sensing Ethics in Postdigital Future Classrooms - Postdigital Science and Education In this paper, we introduce and develop the concept of โ€˜sensing ethicsโ€™ as a relational approach to thinking about postdigital future classrooms that is informed by our material realities, social and ...

Milestone - PDSE Open Access article no. 200!
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

05.06.2025 15:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Call for papers: Special issue in 'Active Learning in Higher Education' on active learning and Generative AI.

We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions.

๐Ÿ”น Abstracts due: 30 June 2025
๐Ÿ”น Full paper submission: 16 February 2026

Full call for papers: journals.sagepub.com/page/alh/cal...

29.05.2025 03:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What Co-Design Has Taught Us About Transformative Practice and Academi This chapter explores lessons about co-design in transformative practice and academic development. Co-design, defined as a purposeful, collaborative, and

New book chapter out: what we've learnt about #co-design to make meaningful change possible in teaching & learning @sydney.edu.au.

Thanks to co-authors @dewawardak.bsky.social, Andrew Cram, Joanne Nash + editors Alicja Syska, Carina Buckley, Gita Sedghi & Nicola Grayson.

๐Ÿ“– doi.org/10.4324/9781...

08.05.2025 01:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿš€Just launched a new resource for educators: '#Assessment #design through co-design'!

Practical strategies from a year-long strategic education project on collaboration in assessments at @sydney.edu.au

๐Ÿšฉ doi.org/10.25910/6je...
๐ŸŽฅ bizonlineassessment.com/design
#HigherEd

08.04.2025 22:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Postdigital Science and Education

๐Ÿš€ Call for contributions: Co-design with #GenAI in higher education

๐ŸŸข We invite 700-word contributions + a visual artefact for a collectively authored article in @pdse.bsky.social

๐ŸŸข Deadline: 30 May 2025
More details: link.springer.com/journal/4243...
#HigherEd #GenerativeAI #ResearchPaper

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๐†๐ž๐ง ๐€๐ˆ: ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ž ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ?
โ— Gen AI is framed in different ways. For some, itโ€™s โ€˜just a toolโ€™, an โ€˜active learning partnerโ€™, for others, something much bigger, messier. Some suggest one chatbot should do it all, others argue for multiple chatbots for different tasks. Some focus on text prompts, others ask AI to describe images to understand how it โ€˜thinksโ€™ (Cory Dal Ponte, Anastasia Globa)
โ— Some use Gen AI โ€˜just like googleโ€™, missing out on its potential as a dialogic tool. Slowly changing, it shows the importance of prompting โ€“ now as crucial as reading and writing. Some interesting prompting models out there, e.g. ROSE (Role, objective, style, exemplar) (Dr. Kelsey Burton, Jeremy Lindeck)
โ— Engagement with Gen AI is emotional. Frustration when it doesnโ€™t โ€˜give me exactly what I wantโ€™. Gen AI increasingly slows and paces interactions. Guiding students can build confidence
โ— The gap in how we learn about Gen AI is widening. Students are more open to exploring it, while some educators remain hesitant. Meanwhile, many students are unsure how to use Gen AI in class, but actively use it outside. (Jeremy Lindeck)

๐†๐ž๐ง ๐€๐ˆ: ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ž ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ? โ— Gen AI is framed in different ways. For some, itโ€™s โ€˜just a toolโ€™, an โ€˜active learning partnerโ€™, for others, something much bigger, messier. Some suggest one chatbot should do it all, others argue for multiple chatbots for different tasks. Some focus on text prompts, others ask AI to describe images to understand how it โ€˜thinksโ€™ (Cory Dal Ponte, Anastasia Globa) โ— Some use Gen AI โ€˜just like googleโ€™, missing out on its potential as a dialogic tool. Slowly changing, it shows the importance of prompting โ€“ now as crucial as reading and writing. Some interesting prompting models out there, e.g. ROSE (Role, objective, style, exemplar) (Dr. Kelsey Burton, Jeremy Lindeck) โ— Engagement with Gen AI is emotional. Frustration when it doesnโ€™t โ€˜give me exactly what I wantโ€™. Gen AI increasingly slows and paces interactions. Guiding students can build confidence โ— The gap in how we learn about Gen AI is widening. Students are more open to exploring it, while some educators remain hesitant. Meanwhile, many students are unsure how to use Gen AI in class, but actively use it outside. (Jeremy Lindeck)

๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ
โ— Collisions โ€“ of ideas, disciplines, perspectives โ€“ are rarely smooth, but they can lead to great things. Gen AI is colliding with everything โ€“ particularly with assessments. It challenges how we epistemically assess learning. Discussions are shifting from assessments as products to processes. If AI-generated work performs at the same level as students, what does that mean for assessment design? (Boyd Britton; Giordana Orsini)
โ— Co-design and co-creation are gaining momentum. Educators are talking about co-designing activities/assessments with others and with AI โ€“ a much-needed, refreshing shift (Swapneel Thite,)
โ— Students navigate multiple Gen AI ecosystems. Many international students rely on non-Western AI tools, while many government/institutional policies assume Western platforms like ChatGPT. In one study, 1/3 of Chinese international students in a New Zealand university had never used Western Gen AI tools. How do we ensure AI-integrated learning is inclusive? (Pedram Nourani, Anthony Ryan)

๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ โ— Collisions โ€“ of ideas, disciplines, perspectives โ€“ are rarely smooth, but they can lead to great things. Gen AI is colliding with everything โ€“ particularly with assessments. It challenges how we epistemically assess learning. Discussions are shifting from assessments as products to processes. If AI-generated work performs at the same level as students, what does that mean for assessment design? (Boyd Britton; Giordana Orsini) โ— Co-design and co-creation are gaining momentum. Educators are talking about co-designing activities/assessments with others and with AI โ€“ a much-needed, refreshing shift (Swapneel Thite,) โ— Students navigate multiple Gen AI ecosystems. Many international students rely on non-Western AI tools, while many government/institutional policies assume Western platforms like ChatGPT. In one study, 1/3 of Chinese international students in a New Zealand university had never used Western Gen AI tools. How do we ensure AI-integrated learning is inclusive? (Pedram Nourani, Anthony Ryan)

๐“๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐€๐ˆ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐€๐ˆ
โ— Educators and students donโ€™t just need to โ€˜knowโ€™ about AI โ€“ they need AI competences. Still unclear what that looks like. We should be explorers, not just visitors. Hands-on, sometimes uncomfortable, engagement with Gen AI is necessary (Prof. Dr. Henrik Dindas, Frank Paul Schulte)
โ— Calls for free play, role play and game-based learning where Gen AI is integrated to make learning more engaging, meaningful and authentic. One session on sheep and pregnancy detection with AIโ€ฆ why not? (Melanie White, Mike Seymour, sophia li, Mark Freeman, Olga Kozar)

๐“๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐€๐ˆ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐€๐ˆ โ— Educators and students donโ€™t just need to โ€˜knowโ€™ about AI โ€“ they need AI competences. Still unclear what that looks like. We should be explorers, not just visitors. Hands-on, sometimes uncomfortable, engagement with Gen AI is necessary (Prof. Dr. Henrik Dindas, Frank Paul Schulte) โ— Calls for free play, role play and game-based learning where Gen AI is integrated to make learning more engaging, meaningful and authentic. One session on sheep and pregnancy detection with AIโ€ฆ why not? (Melanie White, Mike Seymour, sophia li, Mark Freeman, Olga Kozar)

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Great variety of presentations and ways of thinking at this yearโ€™s #Generative AI in #HigherEd Symposium at @sydneyuni.bsky.social. Here are my take-aways:

1๏ธโƒฃ๐†๐ž๐ง ๐€๐ˆ: ๐ฐ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ž ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ?
2๏ธโƒฃ๐‚๐จ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐š๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ
3๏ธโƒฃ๐“๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐  ๐€๐ˆ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐  ๐€๐ˆ

#GenAi #HigherEd

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We need to stop detecting student #cheating and start detecting #learning.
#GenAI #HigherEd

10.02.2025 00:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Business Co-Design Workshop | Problematising Education and Digital Technology | Dr Carmen Vallis Business Co-Design Workshop | Problematising Education and Digital Technology | Dr Carmen Vallis

If you're in Sydney in February, join us for a session โ€˜Problematising education and digital technologyโ€™. Similar sessions are run around the world.

Date: 21 February 2025
Time: 10:00am - 1:00pm
Location: University of Sydney Business School
Register: business-comms.sydney.edu.au/pub/pubType/...

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Beyond the physical/virtual: connected learning spaces in postgraduate business education In response to the rapidly changing realities of higher education, educators need to reconceptualise how they think about learning spaces. This paper examines how the concept of connected learning ...

First 2025 articles!

Both on #LearningSpaces in #HigherEd with Business Co-Desing team @herdjournal.bsky.social

๐Ÿ”ดTraversing changing #HigherEd learning spaces
doi.org/10.1080/0729...
๐Ÿ”ดBeyond the physical/virtual: Connected learning spaces in postgraduate business education
doi.org/10.1080/0729...

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Beyond the physical/virtual: connected learning spaces in postgraduate business education In response to the rapidly changing realities of higher education, educators need to reconceptualise how they think about learning spaces. This paper examines how the concept of connected learning ...

50 free e-prints available. Find out what our students said about their learning spaces: Beyond the physical/virtual: connected learning spaces in postgraduate business education: Higher Education Research & Development: Vol 44 , No 1 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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๐Ÿš€Our article 'Co-design practice in higher education: Practice theory insights into curriculum development' with @NHopUTS, @DewaWardak & Andrew Cram is now published in @HERDJournal๐ŸŽ‰

Full-access article:#HigherEd #Codesign #Collaboration #Curriculum

doi.org/10.1080/072943โ€ฆ

08.10.2024 01:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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One of the most rewarding parts of my role is taking students from 'Managing Post-Crisis Through Action Research' to the @ccwm_sydney museum. They explore #leadership, #ActionResearch and turn theory into real-world insights.
So grateful for @Sydney_Uni's #ObjectBasedLearning!

12.09.2024 04:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What do students and educators actually think of #ChatGPT in #assessments?

We surveyed university educators and students across 3 continents (Australia, US, Cyprus) about #GenAI.

Authors: @whynotyet @enm181 @papanastasiou_e @AdeleSmolansky et al

Article

doi.org/10.1016/j.caeaโ€ฆ

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@sandrisz is following 20 prominent accounts