Charles Sturt EdX

Maintaining wellbeing through uncertainty: building resilience

We’ve all experienced so much change in these extraordinary times, and that change has impacted on our energy, our creativity and our levels of anxiety and inspiration. In this stream, we invite you to share your strategies for re-energising, for helping students (and staff) manage their loads, for re-focusing. How have you built your own resilience during this time of change? What have you learned about your practice? How have you been creative or helped others to feel strong and focussed?

Thriving and succeeding beyond 2020’s challenges: student success

Positioning students for future success won’t come from just talking about it. It’ll take going all hands in – and not being afraid to get them dirty in the process. This year, more than any other, we have been challenged to roll up our sleeves and adapt our learning and teaching practices to ensure student success in a rapidly changing world. We are required to prepare students for an uncertain post-COVID world, one where graduates will require resilience, drive and a growth mindset to positively impact the world around them.

2020 has delivered unprecedented challenges and opportunities to rethink and evolve our learning and teaching. This stream allows you to share your learning and teaching practices that position students for future success, because it’s not what we say that makes a difference, it’s what we do. These learning and teaching practices could include hands-on student experiences, workplace learning, collaborative learning opportunities, community, industry and professional partnerships and those designed to support students’ development of professional identity. As this stream is about what we do, you are also encouraged to share your creativity and challenges you encountered along the way, things that didn’t work so well and those that did.

Harnessing the lessons from 2020: reimagining learning at Charles Sturt

The future in higher education will build on the experiences and forced changes that emerged in 2020. Perhaps the biggest concern is if we simply return to ‘normal’ or should everyone just stay home? What are the possibilities? How do we utilise our creative problem solving and new experiences to shape the future? Whose voices do we need to listen to as we imagine what teaching and learning at Charles Sturt can be into the future?