Back to Block: Re-imagining student learning in a hyper-connected world through an international academic conference | Journal of Block and Intensive Learning and Teaching This article reflects on the International Block and Intensive Teaching Association (IBILTA) conference held in Melbourne, Australia, in July 2024. Perspectives are offered from two delegates who joined the conference from differing institutional and national contexts. One is a Teaching Scholar from Southern Cross University, Australia, and the other an Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor from De Montfort University, UK. We reflect on the value of attending the conference in person, some of the challenges, and offer thoughts on ‘where to next’.

New paper out, co-authored with Prof Alasdair Blair. Read our reflection on an academic conference: the 2024 #IBILTA #blockmodel conference, hosted by Victoria University in Mebourne, Australia. Online now in the Journal of Block and Intensive Learning & Teaching: ibilta.vu.edu.au/index.php/jb...

Transforming assessment policy: improving student outcomes through an immersive block model This paper describes how one Australian university achieved deep assessment reform through transition to the Southern Cross Model: a 6-week, immersive block learning approach. There are few studies...

Pleased to see a new paper online on #assessment policy reform, and its impact, at a #highered institution.

Led by Prof Erica Wilson and co-authored with Prof Thomas Roche.

#highereducation #higheredpolicy #blockmodel

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Designing learning to suit students - Future Campus Southern Cross U adopted the block teaching model in 2020, to address lower than sector average success and retention. So...

Designing learning to suit students. #BlockModel futurecampus.com.au/2024/11/19/d...

Figure 1. Teaching terms in the Southern Cross Model.

Supporting the academic success of underrecognised higher education students through an immersive block model

T Roche, E Wilson, E Goode & J W McKenzie

🔓→ doi.org/10.1080/0729...

#HigherEd #BlockModel #StudentSuccess #UnderrepresentedStudents #MinorityStudents #ActiveLearning #ImmersiveLearning