ASCILITE 2026 Conference Program

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Conference Day 1 – 2026-11-30

Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Room 5	Room 6
08:00–09:00	First-timers Breakfast			Registration
09:00–09:30	Official Conference Opening
09:30–10:30	Keynote - Worth Showing Up For (click for abstract) Associate Professor Rene Kizilcec
10:30–11:00	Morning Tea & Exhibitors
Concurrent Round 1
Theme	Rebalancing the Algorithm	Digital Wellbeing & Compassionate Technology	Creative Expression in Learning Spaces	Reflective Practice & Career Communities	Human-Centred Learning Design	Human-Centred Learning Design
11:00–11:20	Sophistication Without Clarity Zixuan Guo, Kamila Misiejuk, Sonsoles López-Pernas, Mohammed Saqr, Guanliang Chen, Eduardo Oliveira	COMPASSIONATE TECHNOLOGY IN TEACHER EDUCATION Dr Nishta Rana, Dr. Adit Gupta	A preliminary structure for developing a context-sensitive teacher professional development framework for pedagogical AI integration in EFL education Guangyan Zhou, Michael Cowling, Edouard Amouroux, Xuan Pham	Avatars of ourselves: Exploring professional identity with generative AI in business education Carmen Vallis	A Tale of Two Trilemmas: Navigating Trade-offs in Assessment and Feedback Design Juan Fischer, Michelle Pedlow, Andrew Williams	How do we know students have learned? Rethinking evidence, assessment and assurance of learning in the Age of AI Edward Palmer, Dani Logan-Fleming, Jessica Marrington, Manisha Thakkar
11:20–11:30			Designing for creative expression in sustainability education: Canvas, creativity, and multiple pathways into meaningful learning Justin Battin, Sasha Stubbs	Beyond Flexibility: Educator Presence and Professional Community in Digital Microcredentials Leanne Ngo, Kashmira Dave, Keith Heggart	AI as interlocutor, not author: A three-phase assessment design for reflective professional learning in business education Bruce Mitchell, Jess Co
11:30–11:40	AI-Mediated Feedback Literacy in Computer Science Education Mafruha Mowrin Hossain, Tom Goldfinch	Belonging through a web of connections in a first-year online course Sharon Altena, Sarah Prestridge, Chris Campbell, Jeanne Allen
11:40–12:00			Code Your Café: Designing a First-Year Programming Unit as One Sustained Professional Scenario Nikolai Alksnis, Sunam Pradhan, Yeeshtdevisingh Hosanee, Ghaith Zakari, Daniel Laurence	Co-creating Pedagogy Through an Institution Wide Community of Practice on Learning and Teaching Technologies Danielle Battersby, Alyce Greenwood, Daniel Steen	Australian university practitioners’ perspectives on designing for quality and scalability beyond UDL Chun Chuen Chan, Patrick J O'Doherty, Kevin Anderson, Yogita Ahuja, Amanda K Edgar
12:00–13:15	Lunch & Exhibitors / AGM 12:30–13:15
Concurrent Round 2
Theme	Digital Wellbeing & Compassionate Technology	Human-Centred Learning Design	Reflective Practice & Career Communities	Creative Expression in Learning Spaces		Human-Centred Learning Design
13:15–13:25	Embedding Wellbeing into IT Teaching: A Practice-Based Case Study of Inclusive and Data-Informed Support in Higher Education Md Kafil Uddin	Student and staff perceptions of simulation in initial teacher education Erika Spray, Emma Shaw, Kett Natasha, Tess Rendoth	Mentoring for Renewal: Moving Beyond Professional Development Lynn Gribble, Bhavani Sridharan, Tamsin Kelly	Educator-centred VR Integration: A Process Framework for VR Awareness, Planning and Implementation Ruchi Sembey	Navigating Curricular Complexity: Programmatic Assessment and AI in a Business Context Lila Azouz	AJET session - Saturation points in Ed Tech and AI: Identifying gaps and opportunities
13:25–13:35					Student use and perceptions of AI: Findings from a 2026 multi-institutional survey Michael Henderson, Jennifer Chung, Yifei Liang, Paula de Barba, Margaret Bearman, Simon Buckingham Shum, Thomas Corbin, Tim Fawns, Lisa-Angelique Lim Lim, Kelly Matthews, Glenys Oberg, Antonette Shibani, Christine Slade, Jack Walton, Trish McCluskey
13:35–13:45			Relational Infrastructure: Reflections on learning and teaching leadership Danielle Wagstaff	When Teachers and Game Designers Evaluate Together:A Participatory Co-Discovery Study of Educational Game Design Gaps Mifrah Ahmad	A Pedagogy of Trust: From Pandemic Adaptation to AI Transformation Ashley Howard Kerr
13:45–13:55	From AI Fatigue to Compassionate Practice: Building Student AI Literacy Through Continuous Feedback and Reflective Practice Gitte Galea, Michael Cowling	From grading to learning Xiaoxia (Spice) Wang, Eva Heinrich, Helen Mclean, Matt Bangerter, Colleen Boyle, Carl Crotty			Orchestrate: An AI-Secure MarTech Simulation for Systems Thinking and Industry-Ready Capability Nicholas Lekakis, Jason Pallant, Jairus Bowne, Pete Fernandez
13:55–14:05			Teamwork as a learning practice: A framework for teamwork education Caroline Sanz-Veitch, Martijn Van Der Kamp, Danielle Ramirez	Beyond dissemination: making educational innovation discoverable across a large university Arjun Radhakrishnan, Diana Saragi Turnip	Human-Centred Design in an Online Community of Practice for Teacher Professional Learning Nguyen Thi Khoi Bui, Cao-Nguyen Bui
14:05–14:15					Building creativity with generative AI through reflective practice Luke Zaphir
Concurrent Round 3
Theme	Rebalancing the Algorithm	Human-Centred Learning Design	Creative Expression in Learning Spaces	Digital Wellbeing & Compassionate Technology	Rebalancing the Algorithm	AJET session
14:15–14:35	Bridging the Articulation Gap: A multi-agent Conversational AI Platform For Compassionate Scaffolding of Technical Interview Skills Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Dominic Meng Xuan Lai, Siddhanth Manoj, Chin Ann Ong, Timothy Robert Merritt, Gwendoline Quek Choon Lang	Activating innovative learning environments: How educator pedagogical framings shape student- and human-centred learning Cassandra Colvin, Flavia-Elena Hatiegan, Maxine Mitchell	From horizon scanning to action: The Contextualising Horizons initiative as a catalyst for collective sensemaking in higher education Rachel Fitzgerald, Henk Huijser, Simone Poulsen, Danielle Logan-Fleming, Keith Heggart	Building connection and belonging: Extending the course modernisation framework for first-year IT education Sunam Pradhan, John Weldon	Ako AI Agents: Early experiences in the development of design principles James Oldfield, Maia Topp, Sharnell Aumua, Sacha Garrity, Emma Treadaway, Josh Burrell, Jonathan Adams	BETTER 2040: An interactive symposium on traversing the complexity and crisis of AI in higher education and designing learning for a better future Peter Bryant
14:35–14:45			Integrating virtual reality and 3D models in orthodontic education Shazia Naser-ud-Din, Michael Cowling	From Connection to Co-Creation: Human Relationships as the Foundation for Technology-Enhanced Learning Jackie Su, Lynn Gribble	Analyse, create, defend: Securing human judgement in marketing communications assessment under generative AI Triparna Gandhi
14:45–14:55	TBC	Compassion by Design: Rehumanising MOOCs in a Digital Society Through Wellbeing-Centred Learning Design Kumudu Amarawardhana
14:55–15:15	TBC		Reimagining the digital studio: Creative expression and participation in asynchronous photography education Donna Cleveland, Sasha Stubbs	From compliance to connection: Interactive quality assurance in online higher education ANU REKHA Mani	Becoming the Student Again: A Story of Curiosity, Crisis, and What Higher Education Asks of the People It Enrols Kashmira Dave, Diana Heatherich
15:15–15:45	Afternoon Tea, Exhibitors, & SketchNotes Landscape
Concurrent Round 4
Theme	Rebalancing the Algorithm	Digital Wellbeing & Compassionate Technology	Human-Centred Learning Design	Rebalancing the Algorithm	Pecha Kucha	LA SIG session
15:45–15:54	Classification AI vs generative AI in grading and feedback Manjinder Kainth	Rebuilding and Rehumanising the University of Trust in an Era of Generative Distrust Peter Bryant	Beyond the pretty graph: Human-centred assessment design for evaluative judgement Malgorzata Korolkiewicz, Josh Chopin	Caught in the Algorithm: Student Discourse on AI Governance, Surveillance, and Academic Integrity in Higher Education Preya Shah, Harsh Patel, Suren Ladd	Forging Employability Ecosystems through Virtual Industry Experiences Sabina Cerimagic, Danielle Eden-Kiefer	LA SIG session
15:54–16:02					Heads, Hearts and Hands: Designing Equitable and Sustainable Learning Futures Anthea Groessler, Agli Zavros-Orr
16:02–16:05					People before technology? What do learning designers across sectors see as essential for successful practice? Homa Babai, Keith Heggart, Michael Henderson, Nhung Nguyen
16:05–16:11			Bridging Institutional AI Strategy and Subject-Level Teaching Practice: A School-Level Design Framework for Responsible AI-Supported Learning Tommy Huynh, Eric Pardede, Leanne Ngo	Cogniti agents in practice: AI as academic infrastructure in a foundation business course Nuddy Pillay, Una Lightfoot
16:11–16:15					The Cost of Trust: Human-Centred Learning Design When the Process Gets Fast Richard Bartlett
16:15–16:19	Conversational pedagogy in practice: Exploring a unit-embedded GenAI chatbot in higher education Meena Jha, Stephen Colbran, Caitlin Schiavone	Student perceptions on how social presence and social emotional wellbeing contribute to collaborative knowledge construction in online learning Thilini Chathurabani Irugalbandara, Jason Watson, Freya Wright-Brough, Shantha Fernando, Trina Myers
16:19–16:25					‘Engaging and exciting’: Student perspectives on digital learning, authentic assessment and enabling pedagogy. Jennifer Stokes, John Pike
16:25–16:28			Building a Single Classroom for App Development Michael Cowling, Joshua Newn	Could AI-generated podcasts enhance pedagogical relationality in first-year health science students? Ming Jing Ong
16:28–16:36					Psychology student and staff views on a Research Resource Library Miranda Mason, Amanda Krause, Chae Rose
16:36–16:45					We are living in a digital world: Finding connection beyond the ‘material’. Sharyn Carnahan
16:45–17:00	Break
17:00–19:00	Fireside Chat / Poster Session / Art.Intelligence / Networking / Drinks

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