The second annual Sydney Education Unconference in 2024 lets us share ideas, get inspired, form networks, and connect with the wider group of educators at Sydney.
Loosely following an unconference format, registrants are invited to pose potential sessions they would like to run, or take part in. These sessions will be 45 minutes long and be interactive, collaborative, and discussion-based. Sessions will be curated ahead of the day, based on proposals and interests, and merged if necessary. Sessions would usually run once, or twice if there is sufficient demand known ahead of time.
Session formats may include:
- Workshop/tutorial/hackathon – interactive, practical, and hands-on activities that help individuals or groups produce a tangible output e.g. how to include student voice, how to design for equity, how to design assessments to include AI.
- Problem sharing – interaction session to share teaching issues/challenges and work collaboratively to solve them.
- World caf├® or micro-stations – small rotating groups of participants aided by group facilitators to discuss a wicked challenge or share practical ideas around a set of related teaching approaches e.g. unit/course coordination challenges.
- Speed mentoring – rotating 1:1 or small group conversations that aim to mix participants and ideas around a particular topic e.g. building education-focused careers.
Details
Date and time: Wednesday 7 February 2024 from lunchtime until late afternoon
Venue:
University of Sydney main campus. Due to the interactive nature of the Unconference, this will be an in-person event only.
Cost: Free, but registrations are essential for catering purposes.
Audience: University of Sydney staff who are education-focused academics, educational designers, HEA/AdvanceHE fellows, unit coordinators, sessional academics, other educators. Educators from other institutions are welcome as well.
The Unconference is co-located with the 2024 AI in Higher Education ANZ Symposium, which will run in the morning before the Unconference. You are most welcome to register for that symposium as well.
Event full - register for the waiting list
Program
This program is subject to change. All times are in Sydney time (Australian Eastern Daylight Time).
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What would you like to learn or share?
We are keen to find out what topics around learning, teaching, and assessment you would like to learn more about, or share. Please post your ideas into the Padlet below and vote for others that you want to see. To post an idea, click the plus button in the bottom right of the Padlet wall. If you are from the University of Sydney and would like to help facilitate a session, please leave your name in your post below.
More information
This Unconference is being run by the Educational Innovation team in the DVC (Education) Portfolio.
For more information, please contact [email protected]