Workshops

Teaching Through Tension

Tuesday 8 September

This interactive workshop was part of Monash’s Brave Conversations Project. It equipped educators with practical tools to navigate controversial and sensitive issues with clarity and confidence.

Presenters: Dr Farid Zaid and Dr Daniel Heller

Teaching Conversation 3: Inclusive teaching practices in higher education

Tuesday 8 September

This Teaching Conversation explored inclusive teaching practices in higher education. Drawing on their experiences across diverse educational contexts, the panellists discussed practical strategies for designing and facilitating learning environments where all students can participate, belong and succeed.

Presenters: Laura Alfrey, Kim Johnston and Aster Cosmos, hosted by Mahbub Sarkar

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Challenge Conversation: What do AI glasses mean for learning and assessment?

Thursday 27 August

This session explored what AI-enabled wearable technologies, such as smart glasses, watches, rings, pins and pendants, might mean for learning and assessment in higher education.

Presenters: Associate Professor Tim Fawns, Ms Sue Sharpe

Turning Down the Heat

Thursday 27 August

This interactive workshop focused on practising de-escalation strategies for moderate and extreme classroom disruptions.

Presenters:  Dr Farid Zaid and Dr Daniel Heller

AI in Practice: Using NotebookLM as a moderation space for marking with teaching teams.

Tuesday 18 August

NotebookLM offers a practical way to bring all your unit documentation together in one intelligent, queryable workspace, and this session shows you exactly how to build one.

Presenter: A/Prof Jo Blannin

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AI in Practice: Using generative AI to spark creativity in research classrooms

Tuesday 4 August

This hands-on workshop is designed to transform how you think about creativity in the classroom, with a specific focus on the transformative power of generative AI.

Presenter: Dr Lynette Pretorius

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Turning Down the Heat

Tuesday 4 August

This interactive workshop focused on practising de-escalation strategies for moderate and extreme classroom disruptions.

Presenters:  Dr Farid Zaid and Dr Daniel Heller

Unit Delivery Essentials: Gathering early student feedback

Thursday 30 July

This workshop showed how to design quick, meaningful feedback opportunities that strengthen student engagement and teaching responsiveness.

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Unit Delivery Essentials: Delivering personalised actionable feedback

Wednesday 29 July

Effective feedback helps students understand their progress and take meaningful next steps. This workshop explores scalable approaches to provide personalised, student-centred feedback that strengthens learning. You’ll take away approaches that support clarity and consistency across the teaching team

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Turning Down the Heat

Tuesday 28 July

This interactive workshop focused on practising de-escalation strategies for moderate and extreme classroom disruptions.

Presenters:  Dr Farid Zaid and Dr Daniel Heller

Inclusive Teaching: Ramps, screen readers, and … thinking? Why we need to teach for Cognitive Accessibility

Tuesday 21 July

This interactive workshop explored practical, evidence-informed approaches to structuring, sequencing, and explaining content, as well as strategies for scaffolding learning and responding to cognitive overload.

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TEP Teaching Conversation 2 - Teaching Through Tension

Friday 17 July

This session focuses on practical tools for facilitating difficult conversations in the classroom.

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Unit Delivery Essentials: Engaging students in hybrid and online learning

Wednesday 15 July

This workshop helps you design activities that keep students engaged whether they’re online or on campus.

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VR-supported mindfulness for reflective teaching practice

Thursday 2 July

Explore VR-supported mindfulness as a practical approach to strengthening reflective teaching practice, educator presence, and focused attention in teaching contexts. Through a guided immersive experience, reflection and discussion, participants considered how VR can support experiential learning and innovative teaching design in higher education.

Presenters: Dr Tony Mowbray and Mayur Katariya

AI in Practice: Reflection with AI

Tuesday 9 June

Paul shares his experience using generative AI as a feedback tool in a final-year law unit on technology and innovation.

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Challenge Session - AI in Translation tools (continued)

Thursday 28 May

A Challenge conversation extending the session on translation tools. In-person and online/streamed.

AI in Practice: How to Analyse Student Feedback with Gemini Without Getting Overwhelmed

Tuesday 26 May

This session explores how the Monash-approved AI tool, Gemini, supports the efficient analysis of student feedback.

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TEP Teaching Conversation 1 - Teaching, Assessment and AI

Friday 15 May

This interactive session invited educators to explore how artificial intelligence is shaping teaching and assessment in higher education.

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AI in Practice: Q & A session

Tuesday 12 May

This session provided an opportunity to ask questions and request demonstrations of specific features or workflows within our available tools.

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AI in Practice: Moodle AI Bento Boxes (hands-on)

Tuesday 28 April

In this practical, hands-on session, we were introduced to the suite of AI Bento Boxes and the thinking behind their design.

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AI in Practice: Introducing Gemini

Tuesday 21 April

In this session, we introduce what Gemini is, how it differs from other AI tools, and where it can add value across teaching and professional practice. You’ll see live demonstrations of how Gemini can support tasks such as drafting and editing content, analysing and summarising information, generating teaching resources, brainstorming assessment ideas, and streamlining administrative workflows.

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Challenge Conversation: Is the Higher Education sector being brave enough?

Tuesday 14 April 

Higher education is experiencing a period of profound change and uncertainty. Rapid technological change has unsettled long-standing assumptions about learning, assessment, authorship, and expertise. In this context, incremental adjustments (e.g. tweaking course design or assessment) may not be enough. This session explores how institutions can balance innovation with integrity, responsiveness with academic values, and sustainability with public responsibility.

Panellists: Professor Danny Liu (University of Sydney), Professor Michelle Lazarus (Monash University), Associate Professor Tim Fawns (Monash University)

Unit Delivery Essentials: Designing clear and consistent marking rubrics

Monday 30 March

Transparent rubrics build trust by making expectations clear and fair. This workshop guides you through designing rubrics that align with learning outcomes and use inclusive, student-friendly language. You’ll also explore how to incorporate AI-related expectations where appropriate.

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AI in Practice: NotebookLM - 5 ways we use NotebookLM (that you could too)

Tuesday  24 March

Enterprise NotebookLM is now available for all Monash educators and staff. NotebookLM is a powerful companion, helping us engage with information, design learning activities more effectively, and support students in their learning.

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Unit Delivery Essentials: Delivering personalised actionable feedback

Wednesday 18 March

Effective feedback helps students understand their progress and take meaningful next steps. This workshop explores scalable approaches to provide personalised, student-centred feedback that strengthens learning. You’ll take away approaches that support clarity and consistency across the teaching team.

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Unit Delivery Essentials: Gathering Early Student Feedback

Wednesday 11 March

This workshop showed  how to design quick, meaningful feedback opportunities that strengthen student engagement and teaching responsiveness.

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Unit Delivery Essentials: Engaging students in hybrid and online learning

Wednesday  4 March

Seamless learning across modes is key to a consistent student experience. This workshop helps you design activities that keep students engaged whether they’re online or on campus. You’ll leave with strategies that make both environments feel connected, intentional, and student-centred.

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Unit Delivery Essentials: Gathering early student feedback

Early feedback helps you understand how students are experiencing your unit from the outset. This workshop shows you how to design quick, meaningful feedback opportunities that strengthen student engagement and teaching responsiveness. You’ll leave with simple approaches you can implement in the first weeks of teaching.

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Workshop 1: Designing, teaching and leading at program level

Thursday 1 May 2025

This interactive session invites educators to step back from unit-level thinking and explore how their teaching contributes to a broader, more coherent program experience. You’ll learn how to align learning activities with program-level goals, lead curriculum conversations, and work collaboratively on strategic educational design. The session includes practical tools and space for discussion, helping you build confidence in leading program-level change.

Presenters: Professor Claire Palermo and Associate Professor Tim Fawns

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Workshop 2: From awareness to action: Developing inclusive teaching practices

Wednesday 28 May 2025

This interactive workshop guides educators from awareness to action by exploring inclusive teaching practices to build supportive classrooms through a reflective Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) framework. Participants will engage in a dynamic Q&A, gain practical tools such as explicit teaching models and evidence based approaches to remove barriers and to make learning more accessible for diverse students. Through reflection and collaboration, participants will develop a personalised action map and leave with clear, achievable steps to become more inclusive in their teaching practice.

Presenters: Dr. Betty Exintaris and Deanna Ganyu

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Workshop 3: Designing AI integrated assessments

Monday 16 June 2025

AI is continuing to transform the ways we live, work and study, and we need to strategically position it appropriately within our programs of study in order to navigate the continued evolution of higher education. This workshop complements the 2024 AI Bootcamps and the Preparing for education with AI MEA Module helping educators think through the careful integration of AI into assessments.

This workshop supports assessment (re)design for the coming teaching periods and participation in the Programmatic Assessment and AI Review (PAAIR) project rolling out across Monash. It will be particularly useful for Chief Examiners designing assessment regimes and Course Directors coordinating scaffolded learning across courses.

Participants will explore approaches and applications, issues and implications in relation to integrating AI within assessment. The workshop offers orientation and some general models for further adaptation. Through hands-on activities and discussion, the workshop builds capacity for considered integration of AI to facilitate learning and for preparing students to responsibly use AI in their academic pursuits.

Whether you are already riding the waves, have just dipped your toe in, or are still waiting cautiously on the shore, we invite everyone to join us in finding some ways to negotiate the continued waves of technological and pedagogical changes. Let’s work together through this workshop, and beyond, to guide responsible AI use and facilitate visible learning.

Presenters: Professor Ari Seligmann

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Workshop 4: Designing inclusive learning experiences with Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Tuesday 8 July 2025

This interactive workshop will introduce educators, educational designers, and other professionals to Universal Design for Learning (UDL) - a research-informed framework for designing inclusive, engaging, and flexible learning experiences. UDL emphasises proactive design that reduces barriers to learning and supports all students to access the content and participate in learning activities and experiences.

Participants will explore the three core principles of UDL - providing multiple means of engagement, representation, and action/expression - and learn how to apply these principles to the design of curriculum, learning materials, assessment, and learning environments. The workshop will provide a guided exploration of the UDL principles and guidelines, real-world examples and collaborative discussion. A short pre-workshop activity to identify a “pinch point” in practice will inform the practical activity in the session. Participants will examine their own learning and teaching practices and identify practical strategies for making learning more inclusive and accessible.

Presenters: Dr Erin Leif & Deanna Ganyu

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Workshop 5: Who I am, How I teach: Educator identity as Inclusive Practice

Wednesday 24 September 2025

This interactive online workshop invites educators to explore and articulate their teaching philosophy, with a focus on creating an inclusive and relational learning environment. Through guided reflection and discussion, participants will consider how their identities and lived experiences influence what they teach, why they teach it, and how they engage students. To ground the conversation in practice, participants are encouraged to bring a brief example of how they introduce themselves and their teaching, such as a Moodle welcome message, a first lecture slide, or a tutorial opener. Participants will leave with practical strategies to make their introductions and teaching approaches more intentional, aligned, and supportive of student wellbeing and belonging.

Presenters: Dr Kim Johnston and Deanna Ganyu

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Workshop 6: Designing secure assessments through making visible evidence of learning

Wednesday 8 October 2025

This workshop supports educators to design assessments that prioritise visible evidence of learning as a non-adversarial way of meeting growing demands for assessment security and assurance of learning in the age of generative AI. Participants will explore ways of avoiding punitive notions of misconduct prevention and detection through thoughtfully designed constraints and enablers that make the desired learning more observable. Drawing on principles of inclusive design and authentic engagement, the workshop explores how restrictions, conditions, and student-teacher encounters can generate evidence of learning aligned with learning outcomes to enhance the trustworthiness of assessment outcomes.

Through structured activities and reflection, participants will learn to analyse existing assessments, identify relevant learning proxies (process, product, performance, and practice), and refine tasks to more clearly evidence students’ capabilities and progress over time. The workshop builds capacity to make informed, education-led decisions about assessment design, supporting meaningful student learning and promoting confidence in academic standards across diverse teaching contexts.

Presenters: Professor Ari Seligmann and Associate Professor Tim Fawns

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Workshop 7: Teaching Through Tension: Navigating Diverse Perspectives in the Classroom

Thursday 30 October 2025

This in-person interactive workshop will provide educators with tools and strategies to teach in times of heightened community and global conflict and to build student resilience, collaborative engagement, and mutual respect. The session will identify strategies for navigating controversial and sensitive issues that present themselves in the classroom with clarity, humility, creativity and confidence.

The session will cover practical tools to foster students’ constructive dialogue skills, including intellectual humility, emotional awareness, critical thinking, and perspective taking. You will explore case studies and practice moderating difficult conversations. Join us and build a classroom culture where challenging conversations can be opportunities for learning and growth, even in polarised contexts.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to teach students the value of an "explorer’s mindset", create classroom environments that foster respectful dialogue on sensitive topics, apply frameworks that encourage critical thinking and perspective taking in challenging discussions, and develop effective strategies to de-escalate conversations when they become heated.

Presenters: Dr. Farid Zaid and Dr. Daniel Heller

Workshop 8: AI in Practice

Monday 17 November 2025

AI continues to reshape teaching, learning, and assessment. Understanding how educators can engage with AI across diverse contexts is essential to building thoughtful, safe, and sustainable practices. This workshop supports educators to build capacity and confidence with AI through practical adoptable strategies and learning through sharing experiences from across the university.

The event is divided into two portions tailored to different levels of engagement with AI, meeting educators where they currently are. It is designed to help participants think through key issues and support the considered integration of AI into teaching, learning, and assessment activities.

Morning session: Designed for Chief Examiners (CEs) and Course Leaders who oversee the design and delivery of assessment regimes. This session supports those who are in the early stages of engaging with AI. The morning session will help participants imagine possibilities and expand their teaching toolkits with practical tips and takeaways they can immediately apply in their units.

Afternoon session: Focused on sharing and critically evaluating a range of AI-related initiatives underway across the University, this session supports those who are already experimenting with diverse integration strategies and those in the early stages of engaging. It will include a sharing forum and an assessment hackathon where participants collaboratively design AI-relevant assessments suited to their disciplinary/assessment type contexts. Building on your expertise, with support and in collaboration with colleagues, participants will build capacity and confidence in developing responsible and innovative assessment practices in the age of AI.

All sessions and activities presume participants have already engaged with the Foundations of AI module or possess equivalent knowledge.

The afternoon session will also launch the AI in Practice repository within the Professional Learning Hub, showcasing a selection of educator stories and the insights and lessons learned from their experiences. Together, we will explore how storytelling can foster collective understanding and inspire responsible innovation in the use of AI across education.

For more information about the AI in Practice initiative, see the Professional Learning Hub.

Whether you are experimenting with AI tools, reflecting on their implications, or simply curious to learn from colleagues, the afternoon session offers opportunities to join a shared ongoing conversation about navigating AI at Monash.

Presenters: Professor Ari Seligmann and guests

Workshop 9: Supporting Neurodiverse Learners

Wednesday 3 December 2025

This interactive online workshop explores strategies for enabling student-centred education. It will identify the often invisible barriers faced by neurodiverse students and introduce sustainable, meaningful changes to teaching practices to better support them. The session draws on cultural hegemony to unpack unconscious bias in current learning approaches and uncertainty-identity theory to examine why change can be challenging.

As a key outcome, participants will develop a practical outline for intentional and achievable change to enhance inclusion and support diverse learners within their own teaching practice.

Presenters: Professor Michelle Lazarus, Dr Georgina Stephens, Mandy Truong and Deanna Ganyu

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