I’ve just returned from the first meeting of a new group here at Newcastle. The Learning Futures Forum is an opportunity for staff who teach to meet and discuss topics of mutual interest in a fairly informal way. People attend as individuals, not as “representatives” of their discipline and the majority of people seemed keen to network and engage in some “blue skies” thinking about T&L. I was interested in one comment that perhaps learning outcomes actually restrict learning by disempowering the students and discouraging them from taking their own learning experience beyond the boundaries of the planned teaching activity.

!Xanthorrhoea”, grass tree or more commonly called “Blackboy” tree, WA