Events and professional development for AUT staff
LTED offers a range of professional development for staff involved in teaching and supporting learning. Professional development sits in one of four categories that serve the range of needs of different staff groups. There is flexibility to offer modules that algin with specific and evolving AUT strategies and adopt a variety of delivery modes.
Sessions are offered live in-class, live online or as self-paced materials to provide flexible development opportunities for staff.
Professional development available to staff
Fundamentals
Baseline practices for learning and teaching at AUT
Advancing
Building on the fundamentals, and advances the understanding of learning and teaching at AUT
Independent
Self-paced resources, curated guidance, or external offerings
Targeted
Professional development to support a particular strategic priority or challenge
Fundamental modules help teaching staff new to AUT meet the challenges of teaching with greater confidence. They contextualise teaching and learning at AUT and explore how our values and priorities inform curriculum design.
These modules can be done as stand-alone or together, depending on new staff experience.
Fundamental modules include:
- AUT Strategies into Teaching Practice – explains how relevant university strategies guide teaching practice and contribute to the student learning experience
- Ready, steady, teach: teaching for student success – focuses on planning a teaching session, using active learning tasks and identifying classroom management techniques
- Planning teaching sessions: achieving successful outcomes – provides guidance on designing effective learning experiences that support students to achieve course learning outcomes
- How's it going? Assessing and giving feedback – examines the role of assessment and feedback for student learning and provides opportunities to apply that for your teaching practice
- Technologies for teaching and learning: getting the right blend – covers using Canvas, and other learning technologies at AUT
AUT staff can enrol in Fundamental modules on TUIA
Feedback from 2024 participants
“It was very helpful and informative introduction – some good tools to help me design better teaching sessions”
“I liked that the facilitators reflected back to us what strategies for learning they were using”
“I’m excited to teach now”
Advancing modules progress from content in the Fundamental modules to advance the understanding of learning and teaching at AUT.
Advancing modules include:
- Structuring Canvas assignments: getting it right the first time
- What's going on in my course? Course-level learning analytics
- Reflecting on my teaching practice: you be the judge
- Microteaching and peer observation: learning in three minutes
AUT staff can enrol in Advancing modules on TUIA
Feedback from 2024 participants
“The learning was based in the experience of the learners”
“Thank you, very useful and very well prepared”
“The number of Q&As at the end showed how much staff needed it”
Targeted professional development modules support a particular strategic priority or challenge.
The current focus is on creating a set of resources, guidance and workshops related to assessment and generative AI. These modules are under development and will include a toolkit to support programme and assessment design.
AUT Learning and Teaching Symposium 2025
From 25 to 26 November 2025, AUT is holding the second Learning and Teaching Symposium, with the theme 'Auckland University of Technology and Opportunity'. Together we will examine how we enact the aspirations of an applied and responsive university, that champions innovation, equity and transformation through education.
The 2025 symposium includes:
- Day 1 explores the initiatives shaping AUT as a place of opportunity for students and staff, followed by a session on how technology is enhancing learning and teaching.
- Day 2 focuses on AUT’s evolving approach to assessment in a world shaped by artificial intelligence.
AUT staff can find the event details on TUIA.
LTED | Office of Learning, Teaching and Educational Design
LTED is a central AUT service with a team of experienced and dedicated learning designers, educational video specialists and learning technologists.