Learning and Teaching Forums

Forum Program and Registration

Register Now to attend the 2020 Learning and Teaching Forum.

Important: Please register for the Forum in order to receive all the necessary information that will allow you to attend virtually the day including the official calendar invitation.

Program Overview:

Please note. The full Program will be made available in November on this page.

Keynote

This year's keynote is Professor Sally Kift; a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and elected President of the Australian Learning & Teaching Fellows. She has held several university leadership positions, including as JCU’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic). In 2017, Sally received an Australian University Career Achievement Award for her contribution to Australian HE. She was a member of the AQF Review Panel that reported to Government in September 2019. 

Sally's presentation focuses on "Higher Education Leading the Change? Enabling a Lifelong Learning Ecosystem". As a tumultuous year for higher education policy and practice draws to a close, what does it mean to ‘learn without limits’ and how might our sector ‘lead the change’? Pre-pandemic, we had been reimagining learning pathways, provision and aggregation for a future of work impacted by Industry 4.0 technologies, globalisation and demographic shifts. COVID-19 has now accelerated the urgency of that revisioning and exacerbated educational and labour market disadvantage. If education, fairness and national prosperity go hand-in-hand (OECD, 2019), business-as-usual responses to future-fit ‘limitless learning’ seem unlikely to deliver the what, when and how of tomorrow’s workforce needs, let alone socially just outcomes for underserved citizens and regions. Lifelong learning must become a practical reality for all. Our universities must become lifelong learning institutions. This presentation will consider the promise of a connected lifelong learning ecosystem, founded on universal access to tertiary education and collaboration between schools, learners, universities, vocational education providers and industry.  

Please contact pvce.events@unsw.edu.au if you have any questions regarding the Forum.