Productive Disruption

Interdisciplinary approaches in learning and teaching in higher education

• Teaching models integrating different disciplinary approaches
• Using real-world scenarios that require input from different disciplines (e.g., managing pandemics, environmental crises and medical malpractice).
• Multi-disciplinary simulation-based learning.
• Joint teaching on topics (e.g. in science, law and health.
• Interdisciplinary research in undergraduate teaching.
• Interdisciplinary projects that tackle sustainable development goals.
• Capstone projects where students in different programmes collaborate to solve complex issues (e.g., access to healthcare, vaccine distribution justice, environmental health).
• How to communicate and collaborate across disciplinary boundaries.

Reimagining Knowledge: Blending Traditional and Innovative Approaches in Higher Education

• Tradition meets technology: AR for teaching abstract concepts
• Backwards design meets Ubuntu: Inclusive, culturally rooted curricula
• Multimodal meaning-making in multilingual classrooms
• Translanguaging in Education: Classroom practices that support students’ linguistic resources for learning.
• Decolonising Assessments: From exams to culturally responsive assessments like storytelling, performance, and crafting.
• Reflections on Teaching and Learning: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), student-lecturer
• Teaching for Equity: Designing curricula that address socio-economic disparities.
• Student success and well-being: Studying the economic determinants of academic success and proposing financial support strategies.

The Digital Revolution

Technology, AI, and data-driven learning in higher education.

• AI-enhanced teaching with assistants and chatbots
• Educational games and simulations
• Real-time feedback tools for formative assessment
• Virtual and augmented realities for immersive learning
• Learning analytics and data-driven methods

Bridging Gaps: Equity, Access and Inclusive Policies This sub-theme addre

• Teaching for Equity: Differentiated instruction, scaffolded group work, and tiered assignments in large classes.
• Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy: Teaching with relevance to multilingual and diverse student bodies.
• Inclusive Design: Adapting learning materials for visual, auditory, sensory, and cognitive accessibility.
• Peer Teaching Models: Empowering students to coteach and lead.
• Student Success and Wellbeing: Innovations in support services, mentorship, and institutional strategies that promote holistic student development.

Sustainable Future

Higher education for sustainability and climate consciousness.

• Systems thinking in the classroom
• Teaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals
• Green pedagogies: Bringing nature into the classroom
• Assessments reflecting sustainability competencies
• Environmental and sustainable pedagogies

Entrepreneurial Mindsets

Innovation and sustainability for the future.

• Embedding creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, and communication
• Community-linked projects for real-world problem-solving
• Micro-enterprise simulations
• Learning from failure: Teaching resilience and risk-taking
• Fostering creativity in curriculum