Dates and Times
07 October 2026
11:30 - 12:30
Event for
Location
Organiser
Foundation Science & CASE
Speakers
Professor Jason Lodge, Associate Professor Cathy Stone
Enquiry
Hilary Coleman
Event about:
Panel - Learning and retention: facilitating success for all in the age of genAI and digital education
We invite you to join a conversation with
- Professor Jason Lodge, an internationally recognised authority on learning, assessment and AI in higher education,
- Associate Professor Cathy Stone, a leading expert in online student engagement and success,
- and colleagues from KeyPath Education, a leading global EdTech company partnered with UC
- along with our own UC educational design team
With so many competing demands on time, it is important that any professional learning opportunity offers genuine value. This panel will explore practical, evidence-informed approaches to teaching and unit design, including student engagement, online learning, assessment, and the opportunities and challenges presented by generative AI. The discussion is aimed at helping academics identify strategies and ideas that can make a meaningful difference to the student experience and learning outcomes.
Join in person in the Teal Room, Inspire Centre or on Teams.
Additional Information
Professor Jason Lodge joins us from UQ as a professor of educational psychology and is also the founding co-chair of the Learning and Instruction Society of Australasia. Jason’s research is at the forefront of exploring self-regulated learning and the role if artificial intelligence in learning. For TEQSA, Jason led the development of the Assessment Reform for the Age of Artificial Intelligence resource, a framework that has informed assessment policy and practice globally. Jason is also one of the educators driving the Castlereagh Statement:https://castlereagh.ai/.
Dr Cathy Stone is a Conjoint Associate Professor with the University of Newcastle and a consultant and researcher in higher education student equity, wellbeing and success. With a background in social work, Cathy has worked for many years developing and implementing strategies to enhance student equity, wellbeing and success in higher education, for both on-campus and online students. Her research and publications focus particularly on mature age, first-in-family, regional, and online students. As an inaugural Equity Fellow with the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (now ACSES) Cathy developed a set of National Guidelines for Improving Student Outcomes in Online Learning (Stone, 2017) which have continued to inform the HE sector, particularly since the rapid increase in online delivery from 2020 onwards. Cathy is also currently the Managing Editor of the Student Success journal.
UC acknowledges the Ngunnawal people, traditional custodians of the lands where Bruce campus is situated. We wish to acknowledge and respect their continuing culture and the contribution they make to the life of Canberra and the region. We also acknowledge all other First Nations Peoples on whose lands we gather.