2026 June Showcase

Designing Meaningful Learning: Equity, Experience and Engagement

The June Showcase Designing Meaningful Learning: Equity, Experience and Engagement was held face-to-face on the 18June 2026 at NUspace and was attended by 71 staff from across the institution for 15 presentations.

The Showcase began with a panel discussing meaningful learning facilitated by tEN interim chair Professor Kate Nash.  The panel featured educators Jodan Perry (the Wollotuka Institute), Katie Butler (HCISS and EDI), Rachel Buchanan (CHSF and Academic Division) and studen Jessica Wilcox (Psychological Science).

View the full program, read presentation abstracts and presenter biographies.

Watch Session 1 here fetauring the following presentations:

  • Designing for Equity: Insights from Australia’s Fee-Free Uni Ready Best Practice Guide – Dr Michelle Mansfield
  • Decolonising the Critique –Associate Lecturers Beck Boyle, D'Arcy Newberry-Dupé, Shellie Smith, and Senior Lecturer Dr Anna Tweeddale
  • Micro-credentials and the First-Year Experience – Dr James Goulding

Watch Session 2 Stream 1 here featuring the following presentations:

  • Perceptions of professional identity formation and career readiness in non-linear students in Speech Pathology – Dr Rachael O’Brien
  • Playful Learning in Online Spaces - Sport and the Law – Dr. Ray Nickson
  • Evidence on Trial: Teaching Evidence-Based Practice Through a Narrative Video Mini-Series – Dr Kate Levick

Watch Session 2 Stream 2 here featuring the following presentations:

  • Enhancing Student e-Learning with Gamification in Construction Management Education – Dr Maggie Tang and Amanda Viray
  • TikTok Physiology - does Higher Education need to get with the times? – Dr Sarah Valkenborghs and Dr Lauren Harms
  • Knowing Is Not Enough: Showcasing Experiential Exercises for Equity-Ready Graduates – Dr Elysa Roberts

Watch Session 3 Stream 1 here feauturing the following presentations:

  • Rollcaller: An adventure in admin – Dr Jane Shadbolt
  • Making Engagement Visible: A Case Study of Padlet for Monitoring Participation and Enabling Early Intervention in Studio-Based Learning – Dr Louisa Magrics
  • Inclusivity in authentic assessments: Reflections from 3 undergraduate programs – Dr Elaine Xu, Dr Bettina Hodgson, Dr Jane Shadbolt, Associate Professor Wendy Foote

Watch Session 3 Stream 2 here featuring the following presentations:

  • Fostering Reflective Capability through an Iterative, AI-Enhanced Learning Cycle in a Second-Year Occupational Therapy Course: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation – Dr Lee-Ann Jacobs-Nzuzi Khuabi and Dr Sarah Perkes
  • Student Partnership – (Neuro)diversifying the way we teach and learn–Dr Tegan Bradley and Dr Olivia Whalen
  • Bad Teacher? Lessons in Failure – Dr Joyleen Christensen