IEAA Teaching and Learning Forum 2026

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IEAA Teaching and Learning Forum 2026 Teaching and Learning in Transition: Responding to Change in the Global Classroom 10 Sep 2026, Sydney

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International education continues to experience significant change, with institutions facing increasing expectations around academic integrity, student outcomes, curriculum relevance, and meaningful support for diverse student cohorts. At the same time, educators and institutions are navigating uncertainty, competing priorities, technological disruption, workforce expectations, and growing pressure to demonstrate impact. Following the April IEAA Teaching and Learning Network webinar, Navigating Change: Perspectives on International Teaching and Learning in a Shifting Environment, this Forum extends the conversation by exploring how these tensions are unfolding in practice across institutions and classrooms. The Forum will focus on the lived realities of teaching and learning change, including assessment and AI, curriculum pressures, diverse student cohorts, staff capability, and the increasing demand for evidence of effectiveness and impact. The Forum recognises that transformation in teaching and learning is not experienced uniformly across institutions or roles. Through sector insights, case-based presentations, facilitated discussion, and applied workshop activities, participants will explore how institutions are responding to changing expectations while balancing quality, innovation, workload, governance, and student experience. The discussion will also consider what these changes mean for the global classroom, and for how domestic and international students learn together in increasingly diverse educational settings. The Forum aims to create space for honest sector dialogue, shared reflection, and practical learning that participants can adapt within their own institutional contexts. Program Thursday 10 September 9:00am - 5:00pm AEST Audience This forum will prove useful for education professionals across Australia, including: Academic leaders and Associate Deans Faculty members and program directors Learning and teaching leaders and practitioners Curriculum and assessment designers Professional staff supporting international student learning Policy and strategy leaders within international education Outcomes Forum participants will come away with a better understanding of: Analyse how current policy, sector, technological and institutional expectations are shaping international teaching and learning Examine how teaching and learning change is being experienced across academic, professional and leadership roles Identify practical approaches to strengthening assessment credibility, academic integrity, curriculum relevance and inclusive learning design Evaluate strategies for supporting diverse domestic and international student cohorts in the global classroom Consider how institutions can demonstrate the effectiveness and impact of teaching and learning initiatives Reflect on governance, leadership and capability-building approaches that support sustainable and meaningful change. This event is led by IEAA ’s Teaching and Learning Network

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International education continues to experience significant change, with institutions facing increasing expectations around academic integrity, student outcomes, curriculum relevance, and meaningful support for diverse student cohorts. At the same time, educators and institutions are navigating uncertainty, competing priorities, technological disruption, workforce expectations, and growing pressure to demonstrate impact.

Following the April IEAA Teaching and Learning Network webinar, Navigating Change: Perspectives on International Teaching and Learning in a Shifting Environment, this Forum extends the conversation by exploring how these tensions are unfolding in practice across institutions and classrooms. The Forum will focus on the lived realities of teaching and learning change, including assessment and AI, curriculum pressures, diverse student cohorts, staff capability, and the increasing demand for evidence of effectiveness and impact.

The Forum recognises that transformation in teaching and learning is not experienced uniformly across institutions or roles. Through sector insights, case-based presentations, facilitated discussion, and applied workshop activities, participants will explore how institutions are responding to changing expectations while balancing quality, innovation, workload, governance, and student experience.

The discussion will also consider what these changes mean for the global classroom, and for how domestic and international students learn together in increasingly diverse educational settings. The Forum aims to create space for honest sector dialogue, shared reflection, and practical learning that participants can adapt within their own institutional contexts.

Program

Thursday 10 September 9:00am - 5:00pm AEST

Audience

This forum will prove useful for education professionals across Australia, including:

Academic leaders and Associate Deans
Faculty members and program directors
Learning and teaching leaders and practitioners
Curriculum and assessment designers
Professional staff supporting international student learning
Policy and strategy leaders within international education

Outcomes

Forum participants will come away with a better understanding of:

Analyse how current policy, sector, technological and institutional expectations are shaping international teaching and learning
Examine how teaching and learning change is being experienced across academic, professional and leadership roles
Identify practical approaches to strengthening assessment credibility, academic integrity, curriculum relevance and inclusive learning design
Evaluate strategies for supporting diverse domestic and international student cohorts in the global classroom
Consider how institutions can demonstrate the effectiveness and impact of teaching and learning initiatives
Reflect on governance, leadership and capability-building approaches that support sustainable and meaningful change.

This event is led by IEAA ’s Teaching and Learning Network

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Event Speakers

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	Christina Del Medico Director, Learning and Teaching Navitas Ltd Christina Del Medico is Director of Learning & Teaching at Navitas University Partnerships Australasia (UPA). She is a highly effective and experienced learning and teaching expert with a strong practice in strategic leadership in International Higher Education. Christina is committed to delivering results and adopting innovative and responsive teaching approaches rooted in sound philosophical and pedagogical foundations. Christina’s expertise includes building teacher capability, curriculum and digital transformation, innovation and strategic leadership. Christina is passionate about the student experience and successful outcomes for students.
	Casey Parkes, IEAA-AF Director, Academic Strategy and Quality Kaplan International Pathways, Australia & New Zealand Casey is currently Director, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning at Kaplan Australia. She previously held the position of Academic Director at the University of Newcastle College of International Education, the Kaplan operated international pathway college of the University of Newcastle. She comes from an English teaching background and taught in Mongolia for two years and with Kaplan Business School in Sydney for six years. Before working within education, she worked in the tourism sector, including positions with Tourism Australia and Booking.com
	Dr Raul Sanchez-Urribarri, IEAA-F Associate Professor Crime Justice & Legal Studies La Trobe University Raul Sanchez-Urribarri is Associate Dean (Academic and International Partnerships) at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and a Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies at the Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of South Carolina, an LLM from Cambridge University, and a Law Degree (Cum Laude) from Universidad Catolica (Caracas, Venezuela). A scholar with over two decades of research and teaching experience in Law, Politics and Latin American Studies, he has a strong interest in the internationalisation of higher education, particularly on international mobility and intercultural teaching and learning. Raul is the also of La Trobe’s Philippines-Australia Forum, a Co-Editor at Thesis Eleven Journal (Sage), and is the Vice-President of the Consortium of Undergraduate Law and Justice Programs (CULJP).

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