CRADLE Seminar Series: Sustainability in teaching and learning innovations – Interactive Forum – 8 Dec 2021 – Join us!

29 November 2021

Our final seminar for 2021 is a forum on sustainable innovation in practice hosted by CRADLE’s Prof. Margaret Bearman. Be part of an interactive and highly anticipated discussion on sustainable innovation in practice and register now!

In Australia, significant resourcing has been directed towards improving university teaching and learning. However, sustaining such innovative improvements can be challenging, particularly when success is difficult to describe or measure.

By considering what sustains and how, institutions can direct future efforts towards innovations that will continue providing value to students and staff after the initial project has completed. In June 2021, we undertook a systematic search of published peer-reviewed literature, using Scopus, yielding 2810 titles. Of these, 14 highly diverse papers were included in the synthesis of the evidence.

Within this literature, innovation and sustainability were conceptualised in a wide variety of ways and studies focussed on different levels of implementation, such as institution, team or artefact. Analysis suggests recurrent themes including: maintaining connection/support between leadership and smaller teams; the need for resourcing or rewards; and the value of visible successes.

Together, the literature underlines the complexity of sustaining innovation and the challenges of research in this area. This forum will take the format of a half hour presentation, followed by an in-depth participant discussion of how sustainable innovation can be conceptualised, researched and implemented in practice.

As a highly interactive event, you are encouraged to please bring along questions for the session.

When: 1-2.30pm (AEDT), Wednesday 8 December 2021
Where: Online
Cost: This is a free event

Register now to be part of this session as part of our very successful seminar series!