A Professional Learning Community

The purpose of the Campus Community of Learning Advancement (CCoLA) is to advance learning for our students and our university community. It provides a forum for collaborative engagement prioritised in ACU Vision 2033 and promotes cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional sharing of problems, solutions and aspirations.

Meetings are led by facilitators who gather insights and feedback to share with the Centre for Education and Innovation (CEI). The CEI considers outcome reports at regular formal meetings and provides feedback to the facilitators on relevant outcomes, actions and information. This ensures an ongoing exchange of ideas that inform decision-making across ACU.

The CCoLA recognises the value of autonomy in a professional learning community and seeks to realise diverse voices in the university. Each CCoLA may negotiate its own focus areas within the broad scope of advancing learning. These may relate to contemporary and critical topics in higher education including:

  • Access and inclusion
  • GenAI and teaching and learning
  • Two-lane assessment
  • Assessment (re-)design
  • Universal Design for Learning
  • Scholarship in teaching and learning
  • Online teaching and learning
  • Pedagogical models, such as problem-based learning or experience-based learning
  • Community engagement
  • Industry collaboration
  • Mission-based strategies for learning and teaching
  • Decolonising curriculum
  • Cross-disciplinary scholarship and pedagogies
  • Resourcing teaching and learning

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All meetings are face-to-face on campus, with the first meeting scheduled for 2 April 2025, commencing at 12pm local time. See Semester 1 room locations below:

Campus

Facilitator/s

Room (Semester 1)

North Sydney

Jenny Penny

532.1.05

Melbourne Laurine Hurley
Diane Jacobs
403.G.05
Strathfield
(includes Blacktown)
Susan Brooman-Jones
Alison Owens
600.1.02
Ballarat Jackie Stevens
Ian Wellwood
TBC
Brisbane Louise Maddock 216.RF.02
Canberra Leah Hanley
Kathryn Sainsbury
300.G.14
Page last updated on 24/02/2025

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