Friday, August 29, 2025

9:55 AM - 10:40 AM

Courtyard 2

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Overview

Expansive learning theory is a revised version of a 100-year-old educational theory that allows for inclusion of various interactions between technologies, communities and complex settings within a school system to attain set goals. It provides a robust framework for practitioners in school settings, researchers in educational context and policy makers in learning environments by embracing newer technological advancements by incorporating internal changes within an institution or organisation. The framework accommodates the needs of diverse learners and teachers in complex classroom settings, and specifically supports digital tools and explorative/continuous real-time learning pedagogies relevant for 21st Century classrooms. In this presentation I will provide a solid framework that teachers, school management, policy makers and researchers can use to enable a digitally inclusive classroom to attain lesson or unit learning goals. I will use some concrete examples from my PhD thesis using Melbourne case studies and some of my research work conducted at Deakin University as a Research Fellow.