The last two years have profoundly changed how we think about tertiary education and its place in society. As the TEMC program takes shape for 2022, we want to hear your stories about how to regenerate and thrive through large-scale disruption.
Within the broad theme of Regenerate and Thrive, TEMC will explore how the last two years have affected our thinking about:
Suddenly in 2020 tertiary education campuses became 100% virtual. Buildings stood empty; teaching and services moved entirely online. What happened to the sticky campus?
Sessions in this program stream might address:
In early 2020, blue-sky thinking suddenly took a back seat to demands for more immediate, rapid innovation. Two years later, most staff and students are fluent in the use of technology and we can work and learn from anywhere, any time. What does innovation mean in this new hyper-flexible context?
Sessions in this program stream might explore:
After decades of gradual adoption, within six months virtually every university course was adapted for online delivery in 2020. Post pandemic has set a new norm of on-line and in-campus hybrid learning, what are the new priorities for curriculum and instructional design?
Similarly, do staff need to adopt new approaches and mindsets for their own professional development?
Conference sessions in this stream might consider:
Significant social changes are bringing new expectations to the post-pandemic campus. While students adjust to studying in the ‘third space’, staff are learning how to work in distributed, hybrid teams. Institutions are challenged to address long-standing issues of harassment and discrimination on campus. These challenges need to be balanced with our ever growing responsibilities towards protecting the global environment in a sustainable manner to support health and wellbeing.
How do we grow as professional staff and evolve our work practices to address difficult new areas, for example trauma-informed understanding, cultural literacy and the need to be truly inclusive?
Conference sessions in this stream might consider:
Research shows that women carried a disproportionate share of the additional work burden over the last 2.5 years, both at home and in the workplace. As we return to campus and adjust to new work practices, staff at all levels have a unique opportunity right now to shape how educational institutions operate in post-pandemic society. This is a moment for individual and collective leadership.
Conference sessions in this stream might consider: