The Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) has an ambitious agenda to tackle 2 urgent global education challenges:
- preparing people for a rapidly changing and increasingly uncertain future
- ensuring that every individual learns successfully and achieves high standards.
This webinar series presents the latest evidence on how schools and systems can respond to these challenges, based on ACER’s 3 complementary programs of research, development and application:
Leading reform by undertaking foundational research about what successful learning is and how it can be optimised.
Shaping policy by working with national and international partners to develop coherent, equitable learning systems.
Enhancing practice by delivering evidence-based tools and approaches to help every student to make ongoing learning progress.
Learn more about ACER’s work to transform learning systems so everyone can succeed.
Integrating AI in education
Shaping policy Enhancing practice
Tuesday 25 March 2025, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
The rapid popularisation of AI systems signifies a major shift in teaching and learning, bringing both new opportunities and significant challenges. As education systems worldwide confront how to prepare young people for an increasingly unpredictable future and ensure every student learns successfully, understanding how to maximise the benefits of AI systems while overcoming its challenges becomes a critical priority.
Join Drs Fabienne van der Kleij, Katie Richardson and Tim Friedman as they share guiding principles and practical examples for using AI to improve teaching and learning.
Teaching and assessing 5 essential skills
Leading reform Enhancing practice
Tuesday 20 May 2025, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Educators today are faced with unrealistic demands on their time to teach a growing number of skills, capabilities, attributes, characteristics, values and dispositions that are deemed important for students’ holistic development. To make it much more manageable, sustainable and realistic, ACER has identified the 5 essential skills that have the highest impact on students’ learning and developed free, evidence-based frameworks that break down the skills into teachable and measurable behaviours.
Join Dr Claire Scoular, Jonathan Heard and Dr Ian Teo as they unpack ACER’s frameworks for critical thinking, creative thinking, collaboration, communication and self-regulation, and share their insights on how to assess all 5 using problem-based learning.
Stay tuned for more webinars later this year!