Join us for an inside look at how Western Sydney University is reimagining the first-year experience through reflection, identity development, and creative storytelling.

You will learn how the Learning Experience team and academic staff are leveraging a Digital Storytelling Activity Guide to help thousands of new students make sense of who they are, where they come from, and who they hope to become. You will also hear how WSU designed a powerful reflective framework that builds confidence, strengthens belonging, and supports well-being during one of the most important transitions in a student’s life.

This session offers a close look at an innovative model that blends reflection, community building, and student-centered teaching practices to drive meaningful transformation at scale. Attendees will take away inspirational ideas as well as a practical learning module to reimagine innovation on their own campuses.

• Aileen Pamonag Lane | Associate Lecturer, Western Sydney University, Faculty of Health.

• Kristin Wiese | Director of Learning Experience, Western Sydney University.

• Al Briggs | Customer Success Manager, Adobe.
• Rowena Ulbrick | Academic Director – Digital Literacies, Swinburne University of Technology.

Step into the future of teacher education with this dynamic edition, showcasing Curtin University’s forward-thinking approach to preparing tomorrow’s educators. In an era defined by rapid technological change, Curtin is reimagining how future teachers learn, design, and assess – embedding multimodality, AI fluency, and digital storytelling at the heart of its curriculum.

This session highlights the innovative assessment frameworks that enable Education students to experiment, co-create, and demonstrate mastery in authentic, creative, and practice-aligned ways. From multimodal artefacts to AI-supported learning design, participants will see how Curtin equips pre-service teachers with the digital mindset, pedagogical agility, and creative confidence they need to thrive in contemporary classrooms.

Join us to explore the digital pedagogies shaping the educators of tomorrow.

• Adrianne Melissa Evans | Associate Lecturer, Curtin University. 

• Bobby Victoria Cooper | Associate Lecturer, Curtin University.

• Siobhan Unwin | Associate Lecturer, Curtin University.

• Rowena Ulbrick | Academic Director – Digital Literacies, Swinburne University of Technology.
• Todd Taylor | Adobe Pedagogical Evangelist & Professor of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.