Track Co-Chairs
Ana Hol, Western Sydney University
Jayan Kurian, University of Technology Sydney
Elena Vlahu-Gjorgievska, University of Wollongong
Track Description
Educators and education systems around the world are re-evaluating the knowledge and skills students need to succeed and lead in a rapidly changing and complex world. Looking forward the greatest challenge facing humanity can be summed up as adapting and sizing ourselves to fit within the capacity of one planet. Whilst the devastating health and economic impacts of COVID-19 pandemic continue to be far reaching globally, this has also accelerated the pace of change in the workplace including the higher education sector. To add-on, generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT are changing the way students are taught, assessed and how they study. Increasingly, our role as educators, centres around the ability to deliver transformational learning that provide graduates with the capabilities and skills needed to adapt, thrive, and lead in a dynamic and sustainable world. According to the Sustainable Development Goals, SDG 4: Quality Education, aims to ensure that inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning opportunities will be available to all. Such quality education also involves, ensuring that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development.
To instigate change and innovation, IS educators must continue to embrace the many challenges in order not only to prepare the graduates for the new work opportunities of digital economy, but also to produce graduates that are knowledgeable, agile, and innovative contributors to the economy and more broadly a sustainable society. IS education needs to embrace today’s complexity by constantly re-evaluating its curriculum and the impact of the latest technologies (e.g., personalised learning, smart education) to improve the student experience, social equity, and the future of international student mobility.
This track aims to explore new educational models, content, and innovative ways of utilising technology to stimulate the development of essential skills sought-after in the 21st century so that our IS graduates are job ready and highly employable. This track also aims to explore best practices to equip educators with adaptive and sustainable strategies for curriculum design and pedagogy across a wide variety of delivery modes – face-to-face, online, blended or hybrid.
This track welcomes high quality submissions employing diverse research methods ranging from papers aimed at improving curriculum, to papers addressing broader economic and societal topics in IS education, as well as best practice teaching cases.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Innovative, emergent curriculum principles, pedagogy, design, planning, implementation, practices, and evaluation including augmented and virtual reality and blockchain in the era of Web 3
- Novel digital learning applications (learning analytics, artificial intelligence technologies, intelligent tutoring systems, conversational agents, gamification, visualisation, interactive technologies etc.) for smart education (teaching and learning)
- Micro-credentialing, lifelong learning meeting ever-changing industry and societal needs
- Mobile education, digital educational practices (online, hybrid)
- Multi and inter-disciplinary approaches to IS education in the new cyber space
- Sustainability, social, cultural (including indigenous perspectives), gender equality, and global pedagogical opportunities and challenges for IS education
- Innovation and entrepreneurship in IS education.
- Low-code and No-code in IS education
- Emergent approaches for sustainable and adaptive IS education
- Creative, experiential, transformational, active, hybrid IS learning
- IS education responding to rapidly changing environments
- Case studies, business simulation (digital twins) methodologies and tools design, implementation, and evaluation