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Transforming Finance Education Through Simulation

An important education initiative is underway, led by Dr Ali Sheikhbahaei from Monash Business School and Dr Arie Gozluklu from Warwick Business School. The project is focused on refining and testing an innovative simulation tool that brings international finance to life for students.

Embedding Ethics and Sustainability in Engineering Education

Engineering education is evolving to meet the demands of a complex, interconnected world. Today’s engineers need more than technical expertise; they must understand sustainability and ethical responsibility from the very start of their studies. While many current curricula focus on environmental and economic aspects of sustainability, this project takes a broader view, integrating social, cultural, and ethical dimensions into first-year engineering education.

Enhancing Student Learning Through Smarter Feedback

As university class sizes increase, educators are faced with the challenge of how to provide timely feedback that helps to guide a student’s academic journey. With larger student-to-staff ratios, providing personalised and meaningful guidance becomes infeasible, exacerbated by using traditional marking processes that result in feedback arriving too late to make a meaningful impact on the student.

Co-creating feedback analytics with learners and educators

Feedback is one of the most powerful drivers of student learning, yet many students struggle to use it effectively. Seeking feedback, managing emotions and formulating measurable actions to improve are important life and career skills.

This project addresses that challenge by introducing PolyFeed, a Monash-designed AI-powered feedback analytics tool designed to help students develop feedback literacy. Educators often lack visibility into how students engage with feedback. PolyFeed fills this gap by tracking and analyzing feedback interactions, enabling tailored support for both students and educators.

AI-enabled learning for future outbreaks

Outbreak investigation is critical to the control of communicable diseases; dealing with misinformation and communication with patients, contacts and members of the public is critical for both information gathering and helping to stop the spread.

This project introduces an innovative approach to public health education: AI-driven outbreak simulations powered by large language models (LLMs). These simulations immerse students in realistic, high-pressure scenarios in which they must make rapid, highly consequential decisions, communicate effectively, and respond to misinformation.

Material culture and sustainability in design education

This seed project leverages the continental European footprints of both universities in Venice and Prato, Italy. The goal is to co-develop a joint module and potentially a summer programme within Northern Italy’s dynamic design triangle: Venice, Prato, and Florence. This region, renowned for industrial innovation and artistic and cultural heritage, provides an ideal setting for rethinking sustainable design practices through place-based, interdisciplinary education.