Recordings

11/12/25

Using Specification Grading and Feedback in Formative Sprints

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05/11/25

GenAI-Resilient Video Assessments in Financial Services Education Workshop

Presenters: Polly Lai, Centre for Teaching and Learning and Dr Scott Niblock, Faculty of Business Law and Arts

This workshop showcases research on the use of video-based Statement of Advice (SOA) assessments in financial services education. Drawing on a study with 50 undergraduate students, it highlights how video SOAs not only strengthen advisory knowledge, communication, and presentation skills but also enhance authenticity and engagement compared to traditional written tasks.
Importantly, the approach demonstrates resilience against GenAI misuse, offering a model for assessment design that validates professional competency while fostering reflective practice, critical thinking, and deep learning in digital learning environments.

For more information about GenAI at SCU visit the CTL GenAI for Staff web page.

Audience: All staff

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From feedback to framework: strengthening student placements workshop

Presenter: Jena Buchan and Fiona Naumann, Faculty of Health

Work-integrated learning (WIL) is a growing pedagogical approach across university programs, an umbrella term used to represent various educational experiences that integrate ‘classroom learnings’ with work-related activities.
Common examples include industry-based placements, simulations, and project-based learning. However, WIL presents numerous challenges and complexities, such as student preparation, supervisor and student support, sustainability issues, stakeholder engagement and an assurance of a quality WIL experience for all students.
Recently, the Faculty of Health has undertaken a Quality Assurance review on WIL processes, with a specific focus on student experience, curriculum design, University processes and industry partner engagement. Seeking to identify opportunities for program improvement, identification of gaps mitigation of risks and identifying best practice to guide enhancement and continuation of sustainable, WIL programs within Health.
This workshop will present on the quality assurance framework used, key learnings, and opportunities for translation to other programs and faculties to assure quality WIL experiences for all students. It will also discuss the creation and expansion potential of a WIL Community of Practice, comprised of all WIL academic coordinators and related staff, who regularly meet to share practice, resolve issues, and improve WIL faculty-wide.

Audience: Academic Staff

Moderator: Prof. Ruth Greenaway, Centre for Teaching and Learning

For more information on WIL at SCU go to the CTL WIL page

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12/11/2025

Enabling Programmatic Assessment: A Case Study from USQ

Presenter: Professor Alexander Kist and Ms Catherine Hills

Professor Alexander Kist and Ms Catherine Hills will present the University of Southern Queensland’s Engineering Better Futures program, a large-scale renewal of engineering education grounded in a programmatic assessment model. The curriculum replaces fragmented course-level evaluation with an integrated system that aggregates many low-stakes, authentic assessment points into periodic, holistic decisions about student progress toward program learning outcomes and the International Engineering Alliance Graduate Attributes. This design scaffolds capability development, maintains standards across UniSQ’s suite of nested engineering awards, and makes educational intent transparent through a modern engineering portfolio and clear “lines of sight” from learning activities to outcomes.
The approach provides students with flexible study pathways while ensuring coherence, quality, and graduate readiness for an evolving profession.

Audience: Academic Staff

Moderator: Zach Quince, Centre for Teaching and Learning team member.

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02/10/25

Practical Ways to Embed Group and Peer Assessment Across Your Course Workshop

Presenter: Dr Polly Lai, Centre for Teaching and Learning

The purpose of this workshop is to demonstrate practical and effective ways to embed group assessment and peer-engagement components across an entire course. Taking a whole-of-course perspective, rather than focusing on isolated units, the workshop highlights strategies that enrich student learning while reducing administrative workload.

Audience: All staff

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15/10/25

Scaffolding asynchronous learners' engagement with feedback

Presenter: Dr Kieran Balloo, SCU College

Feedback is often seen as a dialogic process in which students are active participants. Yet transformations in modern higher education—such as the rise of online and asynchronous learning, increased student diversity, and reduced face-to-face contact— while improving access and personalisation, have made it more challenging for educators and students to engage in constructive synchronous feedback conversations.

In this workshop, this challenge is explored through a unique case study that involved incarcerated learners, who cannot engage in real-time dialogue with tutors. Their experiences helped us identify the support needed to make feedback effective in such settings. We then asked: if we could make feedback more effective in high-security prisons, could similar approaches benefit learners who study at a distance, flexibly, and often asynchronously around other commitments?

We will share resources developed to support this goal and invite participants to consider how these resources could be used or adapted as scaffolds to enhance participants’ own feedback practices and students’ learning within the Southern Cross Model.

Audience: All academic staff.

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21/10/25

Peer Review and Benchmarking in Action: Insights from the Bachelor of Counselling

Presenter: Dr Ebi Cocodia

Peer review of assessment is a valuable academic practice, but it’s often underutilised. In this workshop, Dr Ebi Cocodia shares the story of a recent external benchmarking exercise in the Bachelor of Counselling, highlighting how collaborative review processes can strengthen assessment design, improve consistency, and meet Higher Education Standards Framework requirements. Join us to explore how peer review can be embedded meaningfully into course development and renewal, and how benchmarking can support academic integrity and confidence in learning outcomes.

Audience: Academic Staff

Please note: Register for this workshop in Scout and the workshop Zoom details will be provided in the Scout confirmation email.

Moderator: Centre for Teaching and Learning team member.

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17/09/25

Introduction to HEA Fellowships

Presenter: Dr Polly Lai, Centre for Teaching and Learning

Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellowship offers university staff an exceptional opportunity to gain international recognition for your outstanding contributions to teaching and learning in higher education. This formal acknowledgment not only enhances your professional profile but also showcases your commitment to educational excellence on a global stage.

In this workshop, we will answer these questions:

• What is HEA fellowship?
• What are the benefits of HEA fellowship?
• Who is eligible to apply?
• How do I know which category of fellowship I should apply for?
• What is the application cost at SCU?
• The HEA Fellowship workshops in 2025

For more information about HEA Fellowship visit the CTL HEA Fellowship webpage.

Audience: All staff

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24/09/25

Showcase 2 2025 – Advancing the Southern Cross Model concluded on 24th September.

The sub-themes for the showcase were:

• Leveraging Generative AI to transform learning and teaching
• Sustaining and Enhancing Student Success: Strategies that make a difference
• Placements and Beyond: Developing future-ready graduates with the Southern Cross Model

View all the recordings from Showcase 2, 2025 on the Showcase 2 page

08/07/25 15/07/25 22/07/25
29/07/25 

GenAI Training for Teaching and Learning workshop # 1 - 6

Workshop series details:

6 workshops

Online & F2F in Lismore - 08/07/25  22/07/25, 05/08/25 concluded
Online & F2F on Gold Coast - 15/07/25, 29/07/25, 12/08/25 concluded

Presenter: Zach Quince, Centre for Teaching and Learning

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28/08/25

Rethinking groupwork: A five-year journey of practice-based learning and redesign

Presenter: Dr Owen Hogan

Groupwork is often positioned as a pedagogical strategy for developing collaboration and problem-solving skills, yet its design and facilitation are frequently met with frustration and dissatisfaction by staff and students alike.
This reflective practice project shares insights from five years of iterative redesign in CRTV1002 - Create: Innovate: Change, a core first-year unit spanning several degrees at Southern Cross University.
The unit challenges students to work in teams on real-world, design-led problems, yet early implementations revealed persistent issues: inequitable workload, group conflict, disengagement, and limited skill development.
Drawing on SoLT literature and structured experimentation with group formation, assessment timing, peer evaluation, and digital tools, this project identifies strategies that can lead to improved outcomes. Key shifts include moving to allocated groups, embedding early team-building, scaffolding collaboration skills, and ensuring authentic, high-relevance tasks.
The findings argue for embedding collaboration capability across the curriculum, with deliberate scaffolding, assessment structures that value the process—not just the product—and institutional support for the invisible labour of group facilitation.

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08/07/25 15/07/25 22/07/25
29/07/25 

GenAI Training for Teaching and Learning workshop # 1

Workshop series details:

6 workshops

Online & F2F in Lismore - (08/07/25  22/07/25 concluded), 05/08/25
Online & F2F on Gold Coast - 15/07/25, 29/07/25 concluded), 12/08/25

Presenter: Zach Quince, Centre for Teaching and Learning

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10/07/25

Digital-WIL delivery: Learnings from a Telehealth Exercise Program

Presenter: Dr Jena Buchan,

This webinar by Dr Jena Buchan presents an innovative telehealth work-integrated learning (WIL) initiative embedded within SCU’s exercise and sport programs to better prepare students for industry placements.
Developed in response to feedback from industry, students, and staff, the five-week telehealth experience supports the integration of classroom knowledge with real-world practice, focusing on both discipline-specific and transferable skills. With telehealth now a required professional standard, this initiative not only addresses accreditation needs but also enhances student confidence and adaptability for future practice. The session will share structure, student outcomes, and key insights for further development.

Work-integrated learning expands beyond industry placements, but ensuring students obtain quality, transferable opportunities in other forms of WIL can be resource-intensive and hard to sustain.
This presentation delves into learnings and experience for both students and staff, while challenging attendees to consider applications to their own practice.

08/07/25 15/07/25 22/07/25
29/07/25

GenAI Training for Teaching and Learning workshop series

6 workshops

Online & F2F in Lismore - (08/07/25  22/07/25 concluded), 05/08/25
Online & F2F on Gold Coast - 15/07/25, 29/07/25 concluded), 12/08/25

Presenter: Zach Quince, Centre for Teaching and Learning

CTL is pleased to announce a new advanced professional development module on Generative AI. Following on from the foundational training, this session offers a deeper dive into practical application and pedagogical design. It provides hands-on guidance for redesigning assessments to be more resilient and meaningful using Southern Cross University’s key frameworks, including the Assessment Adaptation Model (AAM-GenAI) and the GenAI Tool Use Descriptors. This is a valuable opportunity to ensure your teaching practices are aligned with institutional guidelines while preparing students for an AI-integrated professional world. The six sessions advance your skills in navigating Generative AI in higher education with this practical workshop. Moving beyond the basics, this session provides concrete strategies to confidently manage GenAI in your teaching. You will learn to design robust assessments using Southern Cross University's official Assessment Adaptation Model and apply the GenAI Tool Use Descriptors to set clear student expectations. The training focuses on guiding students in the ethical use of AI tools, fostering evaluative judgment, and incorporating reflective practices to maintain academic integrity while preparing students for an AI-enabled future.

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Smarter Support - Personalising education through chatbots

Dr Vinh Bui (Faculty of Science and Engineering)

(Showcase 1 2025 - Presentation 4)

Finding the sweet spot - Helping students avoid the twin pitfalls of overcaution and overconfidence in GenAI: Insights from a collaborative approach to GenAI literacy

Ms Suzanne Rienks (Study Well), Ms Cintamani Brown (SCU Library), Ms Jenny Luethi (SCU Library)

(Showcase 1 2025 - Presentation 2)

Using GenAI-simulated business roles to build authentic analysis skills in the Southern Cross Model

Dr Carolyn Seton (Faculty of Science and Engineering)

(Showcase 1 2025 - Presentation 1)

Teach Smarter, Not Harder: Andy’s top tips for GenAI tools at SCU

Andy Smidt shows you her favourite and newest GenAI tools. Discover how these tools can transform the way you work, teach, and connect with students. In this practical and engaging session Andy will show you a range of GenAI tools that can save time, reduce repetitive tasks, and enhance creativity. Whether you're looking to streamline admin tasks, create engaging teaching materials, or simply add a bit of fun to your workflow, there's something here for everyone. Andy will show you what she does with each tool so that you will go away with practical “how to” tips. No prior tech skills required—just curiosity and an open mind.

Introduction to Generative AI (A practical introduction for beginners)

Presenter: Marlon Jones (he/him), Educational Designer, Centre for Teaching and Learning

This workshop provides a non-technical introduction to AI fundamentals tailored for those beginning their AI literacy journey. It is designed to help both teaching and non-teaching staff understand the basics of Generative AI (GenAI) and explore its potential applications in an educational setting. Through this interactive session, you'll gain a foundational understanding of GenAI, explore popular GenAI tools, and learn practical prompts to enhance your daily productivity. We'll also discuss important security considerations and provide access to curated AI resources to support your continued learning.

Recorded in Zoom 1st August 2024

Supporting resource: Introduction to Generative AI workshop - supporting PPT slides

Gen AI for Development and Delivery

In this one-hour session, Chris Lawler will share her principles developed while course writing and as a Unit Assessor providing feedback to students.

The use of cutting-edge technologies like generative AI (LLMs) has the power to significantly enhance the quality and efficiency of course development and delivery.

Emerging Practices for Generative Artificial Intelligence: SCU policy guidelines and practice

Dot Armstrong (PVC Academic Quality), Dr Jenelle Benson (Centre for Teaching and Learning), Dr Aspa Baroutsis (Education), and A/Professor Mandy Shircore (Law).

 Let's talk about Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) developments and ethical considerations

Round table discussion

Recorded during SoLT Symposium 2023

GenAI in the Classroom

Dr Ali Reza Alaei, Faculty of Science and Engineering and Dr Fahimeh Alaei, Faculty of Science and Engineering

Recorded during SoLT Symposium 2023

GenAI for academics: Siri and Alexa, meet Samantha and HAL

Dr Paul A Whitelaw (PhD): Educational Partnerships Board - The Hotel School

Recorded during SoLT Symposium 2023

Multiple choice tests: Efficient assessment and effective pedagogy in the age of 6-week terms

Dr Paul A Whitelaw (PhD), Educational Partnerships Board - The Hotel School

 Recorded during SoLT Symposium 2023

Designing authentic assessment in the era of GenAI: A support resource for academics

Dr Joanne Munn, Dr Jenelle Benson, Dr Anu Khara, Janette Ellis and Jessica Mills, Centre for Teaching and Learning

Recorded during SoLT Symposium 2023