ASCILITE 2026 Conference Program

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Conference Day 3 – 2026-12-02

Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3	Room 4	Room 5	Room 6
08:00–09:20	Registration and information desk open; Exhibitors and Speaker Support Open
09:20–09:30	Welcome to Day 3 + photos
Concurrent Round 9
Theme	Human-Centred Learning Design	Rebalancing the Algorithm	Rebalancing the Algorithm	Human-Centred Learning Design	Human-Centred Learning Design	Reflective Practice & Career Communities
09:30–09:50	Designing Human-AI Creative Learning Thomas Cochrane, Md Haseen Akhtar	Learning with AI to build the capabilities needed to work with AI Hassan Khosravi	Beyond Service Delivery: Maintaining a Human-Centred Academic Support Model Karin Barac, Aaron Wells	Designing inclusive interactive oral assessments: Practical learnings for educators. ROWENA ELIZABETH DITZELL, Alex Sloane, Richard Ingold	Prompting Inclusion: Development of a genAI Prototype to Support UDL-Aligned Course Design in Computer Science Education Anne Ozdowska, Penny Kyburz	Human + AI: Women Leaders Relearning Leadership, Identity and Human Capability Leanne Ngo, Mengping Cheng, Kate Jung, Aimee Grieve, Sarah Teideman, Kashmira Dave
09:50–10:00			Beyond conversation length: Conversation openings, cognitive engagement, and support orientations in student-AI chatbot interactions Xiaoyu Zhuang, Aneesha Bakharia	Enabling AI-ready medical graduates: a working group approach to curriculum and assessment change in a graduate medical program Joanne Hart, Phoebe Adams, Sally Ayesa, Adrian Boscolo, Christine Bowles, Kellie Charles, Katryna Dening, Lisa Hampshire, Kevin Hou, Priya Joshi, Paul Roth, Matthew Shu, Dominic-Joel Symon, Ian Todd, Alan Wong, Caryl Barnes	How does a professional learning community strengthen self-efficacy in learning design? Lis Conde Hernandez
10:00–10:10	Designing Learning Analytics with Care: A Multiple Case Study Approach Jo-Anne Clark, David Tuffley	Reframing Academic Integrity in Australian Universities for the Generative AI Era Sangeetha Kutty, Meena Jha, Elaheh Yadegaridehkordi, Ritesh Chugh, Jahan Hassan, Eric Duku, Michael Cowling
10:10–10:30			Beyond corrective feedback: A learner-centred approach to GenAI feedback for EAL academic writing Shaghayegh Hosseini, Michael Henderson, Ekaterina Tour, Joanne Blannin	Enabling Human-Centred Learning Design Through Trust-Based Third-Space Partnerships Thoa Mai Phuoc Nguyen	Time management and deferred learning intentions Tirath Ramdas, Michael Han, Fiorenza Scarpa
10:30–11:00	Morning Tea & Exhibitors
11:00–12:00	Keynote - Reflections of a Cyborg Boomer (click for abstract) Associate Professor Trish McCluskey
12:00–13:00	Lunch & Exhibitors
Concurrent Round 10
Theme	Rebalancing the Algorithm	Rebalancing the Algorithm	Human-Centred Learning Design	Human-Centred Learning Design		Rebalancing the Algorithm
13:00–13:20	Social displacement and relational andragogy in generative artificial intelligence-enhanced learning and teaching Joseph Crawford, Michael Cowling	When the benefits outweigh the costs Jack Walton, Shaghayegh Hosseini, Michael Henderson, Thomas Corbin, Christine Slade, Jen Chung, Yifei Liang	From Strategy to Students: Rebalancing the Algorithm Through Iterative Co-design of an Indigenous-Informed Digital Learning Environment Alice La Rooy; David Gadsby	To see or not to see: Improving learner access to demonstrations using multi-angle video. Sacha Garrity, Dr. James Oldfield	Reading the Cards: Rebalancing the Algorithm in Higher Education Justine Maldon, Michelle Pedlow	What makes educational innovations sustainable in tertiary education? - Lessons from the LMS and beyond Colin Simpson, Trish McCluskey, Tim Fawns, Wendy Taleo, Alice La Rooy, David Gadsby
13:20–13:30			From compliance to connection: A human-centred learning design approach to ethical GenAI Use in higher education Megan Axelsen, Dianne Stratton-Maher	Mapping assessor judgement-in-action: A transition network analysis of dialogic moves in interactive oral assessment Popi Sotiriadou, Yuchen Liu, Gosia Ludwichowska-Alluigi, Katrina Li, Joshua Mcleod	Making learning design quality visible: Metadata for collaborative course development Heather Hotaling
13:30–13:40	Where Did That Student Risk Model Come From? Aneesha Bakharia, Linda Corrin	When curators become creators Izac Noh, Vickel Narayan
13:40–14:00		When curators become creators Izac Noh, Vickel Narayan	From tools to sense-making Simin Littschwager, Elaine Tsang, Graeme Sequeira	Human-centred learning design for cross-cultural teamwork in higher education Nicole Ronald	TBC
Concurrent Round 11
Theme	Human-Centred Learning Design		Human-Centred Learning Design	Rebalancing the Algorithm	Human-Centred Learning Design	Human-Centred Learning Design
14:00–14:20	Learning Companion for Students’ Critical Reasoning and Academic Writing Chuan You Tan, Owen Noel Newton Fernando, Jun Hao Tan, Chin Ann Ong, Timothy Merritt, Fei Lim	TBC	Watching Is Not Doing Kennosuke Shimizu, Joshua Newn, Michael Cowling	Feedback quality at scale: A mixed-methods protocol for evaluating AI-assisted marking against seven principles of good feedback practice Blake Lawrence, Anett Nyaradi, Mollie Dollinger	Mastering the Art of Human-Centred Global Collaboration: Designing AI Bots as Relational Partners in Higher Education Julie Lindsay, Samuel Madtha	The Learning Design Manifesto: What we value, resist and might build? Keith Heggart, Michael Henderson, Nhung Nguyen, Homa Babai, Kashmira Dave, Colin Simpson, Dominic Rushton
14:20–14:30		TBC		Friction by Design - Desirable Difficulty in Post AI Learning Daniel Laurence, Nikolai Alksnis	Mobile Learning in Higher Education Post Covid: Emerging Themes Marc Marquez, Thomas Cochrane, Neil Cowie
14:30–14:40	Making Teamwork Visible Manika Saha, EeHui Lim, Zihang Xu, Sulaiman Al Sheibani, Sanaz Nikfalazar	TBC	Who participates, who connects, and what they say Amara Atif, Sadia Nawaz
14:40–15:00		TBC		From Short-Term Gains to Deep Learning: Designing AI Learning Agents through Productive Failure Polly Lai, Vinh Bui, Duc Thanh Nguyen	Pizza and personas Rhian Gaffney, David Gadsby
15:00–15:15	Light Refreshments & SketchNotes Landscape
Concurrent Round 12
Theme	Human-Centred Learning Design		Rebalancing the Algorithm	Human-Centred Learning Design	Rebalancing the Algorithm	Reflective Practice & Career Communities
15:15–15:35	TBC	TBC	From academic integrity to digital exam wellbeing: Reframing secure exam infrastructure in the AI era Fernando Jativa	Redesign for Immersive Block Teaching: Academic Practices in High-Performing Southern Cross Model Units Zach Quince, Gayani Samarawickrema, Ruth Greenaway	Teacher–GenAI partnership in design and technology education: From utility to allyship Chris Chimwayange	Looking Forward by Looking Back: A Decade of Learning, Research, Reflection, and Collective Growth in Early Online Education Lauren Shaw, Stephen McKenzie, Jen Chung, Lilani Arulkadacham, Jennifer Day, Christine Lewis
15:35–15:45	TBC	TBC	From permission to pedagogy: Mapping generative AI policy approaches across Australian universities Henry Zhu	Who Gets Heard in Digital Learning Environments? Katalin Belley, Leonie Newnham, Paolo R Cerotti
15:45–15:55	TBC	TBC			The Tension Between Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge: Power Relations in the Policies of Universities and Publishing Organisations xin zhou
15:55–16:15	TBC	TBC	GenAI and Novice Programmers’ Conceptual Understanding: A Systematic Review Sonam Wangmo	Inside the black box of scenario design: tracing the cooperative creation of video-based classroom scenarios Veronica Granlund, Emma Edstrand, Pernilla Nilsson
16:15–16:30	Conference Closing & Handover

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