Event: Putting Gen AI into Practice (Learning, Teaching, and Educational Innovation)
On 24 November 2025, UOW’s Learning, Teaching and Curriculum and Assessment Reimagined teams hosted a UOW-wide Learning and Teaching (L&T) event titled Putting Gen AI into Practice: Learning, Teaching and Educational Innovation. This interactive, practical, and practice-focused half-day event was delivered both on the Wollongong campus and online and was designed to support academic teaching staff in using generative AI (gen AI) for educational purposes, with priority areas informed by staff survey feedback.
The video below features highlights from the event.
Transcript: Putting Gen AI into Practice – Learning, Teaching, and Educational Innovation Event Trailer
Ann Rogerson: Introducing our new Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Education, Professor Helen Partridge.
Helen Partridge: I would argue that GenAI isn't just another tool, another technology that we can pick up and plonk inside our existing approach to higher education. I think GenAI is a provocation. It's provoking us to think about what's the value of a university degree. It's provoking us to think about what is assessment, why do we assess, and what do we need to assess? And what does student learning actually look like?
Elaine Rodrigues Fields: Staff acknowledged it's important to integrate it into our assessments, and then the students were saying very similar things once again, like, "Yes, let's do it, but let's do it throughout the degree." Let's take a considered approach to how we integrate it in a whole-of-curriculum approach so that it's ethical, it's effective, it's not contradictory, and it's scaffolded.
Ann Rogerson: It's not so much about tools. It's becoming more and more ubiquitous. So being able to say, "Yes, you can use it. No, you can't." We have to be clear what that means.
Alyce Mason: The addition here of what we're presenting that we will be updating in the next few weeks brings together those other resources for learning. It links to the short courses. It links to the fact that students have access to secured AI through Copilot, for example, and how they can get started with that.
Event Summary
The event opened with an address from UOW’s new Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Education), Professor Helen Partridge, followed by a presentation from the Assessment Reimagined sharing key insights from the Understanding GenAI Practices in Learning and Teaching staff survey. This was followed by a brief overview of current UOW initiatives and institutional updates related to generative AI, including staff and student guidance and associated resources.
The second half of the event featured a series of hands-on sessions, including a World Café that showcased quick-win demonstrations and opportunities to explore available generative AI tools and learning and teaching use cases. This was followed by a series of focused workshop sprints designed around two priority areas identified through survey responses:
- Artificial intelligence, academic integrity, and assessment
- Getting started with AI agents for learning and teaching
For the on-campus program.
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The introductory presentations were recorded and are available via the UOW intranet page, Putting Gen AI into Practice: Learning, Teaching, and Educational Innovation Event.
While the World Café and workshop sprints were not recorded. Relevant resources will be shared via the L&T Hub, and reruns of these sessions (along with additional topics identified through the staff survey), will be offered. Visit the L&T Events page to register for upcoming events.
