Conference: Student Success Conference 2024

Mon 1 Jul 2024 – Wed 3 Jul 2024 AEST

Melbourne

Event details

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In 2024, the Students Transitions Achievement Retention & Success Conference (STARS) Conference will be held in collaboration with Equity Practitioners in Higher Education Australasia (EPHEA) and National Association of Enabling Educators of Australia (NAEEA) to celebrate 10 years of STARS and the 15th Volume of Student Success.

In recognition of this collaboration, and these significant milestones, the 2024 event will be called the Student Success Conference.

The conference provides the opportunity to disseminate and discuss current research, good practice, emerging initiatives and leading edge ideas that are aimed at enhancing students’ tertiary learning experiences. Discussion on a wide variety of subjects is encouraged and focuses on the 5 Pillars of Student Success:

Students – who are they, what are their needs, what works for different cohorts, strategies for broader social inclusion and increasing participation in tertiary education, participation of first nation peoples
Transitions – pathways to tertiary education, transitions into (the first year experience) during (work integrated learning) and from tertiary education including graduate employability, and capstone experiences
Achievement – strategies promoting student achievement including curricular and co-curricular reform, employability, gamification and simulation enhanced learning
Retention – program, discipline, whole of institution, inter-institutional and sector collaborations designed to improve student retention, threshold skills and concepts
Success – student engagement, technology enhanced learning, understanding students expectations and realities, psychological wellbeing, application of learning analytics

Who should attend:

Tertiary teachers and learning support professionals
Academic and professional staff keen to enhance their knowledge and engage in discussions
Researchers in higher, tertiary and adult education
Academic and professional institutional leaders
Assistant and Associate Deans Learning and Teaching
Directors of Learning and Teaching, Students, Academic Staff Development and Digital Learning Strategies
Equity practitioners in Universities who are responsible for widening the participation of equity groups and supporting their transition into University study

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