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At-a-Glance Program

Wednesday, 4 February 2026

5:30pm - 6:30pm
Opening Reception (Hyatt Centric Melbourne)

Thursday, 5 February 2026

9:00am - 9:30am
Opening Statements - Welcome to MOBTS Oceania 2026! (5.13 & 5.14)
9:45am - 10:45am
From Teaching to Facilitation: Engaging Case Discussions with the SPARK Model (5.06)
Group and Team formation methods in management education: What's fun and for whom? (5.07)
Is fun the enemy of learning? (5.09)
Moving from Product to Service Marketing in the B2B realm. The Human Factor explored (5.13 & 5.14)
10:45am - 11:45am
REFRESHMENT BREAK (5.15 & 5.16)
11:15am - 12:15pm
Designing your AI collaborator: A classroom activity for deeper engagement and role-play with GenAI (5.06)
Facilitating Knowledge Integration through Interdisciplinary Role-Play in Industry and Community Project Units (ICPUs) (5.07)
An Indigenous Ontological Approach to Negotiation: Harnessing Relational Resonance Through a Framework Grounded Within People, Country, and Systems (5.09)
Do you know what you are teaching?: Graduate views on their university learning (5.11)
Empowering Strategic Management Students Through Real-World Consulting: Linking Experiential Learning and Business Development (5.13 & 5.14)
12:15pm - 1:15pm
LUNCH BREAK (5.15 & 5.16)
1:15pm - 2:15pm
From Uncertainty to Engagement: A First Day Blended Bingo and Speed Dating Icebreaker (5.06)
Ally with AI Icebreaker for Online or Hybrid Organizational Behavior Cohorts (5.07)
AI: where is the fun? Are we killing creativity? (5.09)
Designing, Managing, and Grading Student Teamwork: An Evidence-Based Framework for Developing Student Teamwork Competencies (5.11)
A Classroom Activity to Encourage Responsible Generative AI Use in Educational Settings (5.13 & 5.14)
2:15pm - 2:45pm
REFRESHMENT BREAK (5.15 & 5.16)
2:45pm - 3:45pm
Hidden-Letter Treasure Hunt: A Quest for Engagement Across Campuses in the Rural Southwest (5.06)
The Grotesque Quest (5.07)
Zambezia: a global ethics choose-your-own-adventure (5.09)
“Yes, and…”: Using Improv to Launch High-Performing Teams in Week One (5.11)
Regulatory Focus and Collaborative Reflection in Student Internships (5.13 & 5.14)
3:45pm - 4:00pm
MINI-BREAK (5.15 & 5.16)
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Dora's Explorer Reflection (5.06)
Developing Student Skills in Critical Thinking of AI-Produced Output: Embracing Social Loafing to Create a Carnival of Laughter for Your Classroom (5.07)
Enhancing classroom engagement and learning outcomes through secure post-presentation interactive assessments in an age of digital tools dependency (5.09)
Ethics Lucky Dip: Arguing the Good, the Bad, and the Imaginative (5.11)
A Typology of Escape Room Puzzles (5.13 & 5.14)
5:30pm - 7:30pm
Conference Dinner at The Hyatt Centric (Hyatt Centric Melbourne)

Friday, 6 February 2026

9:00am - 10:00am
Know when to hold'em: Teaching the Resource-Based View with Playing Cards (5.06)
From Notes to Knowing: An Interactive AI-Enabled Sensemaking Activity with Notebook LM (5.07)
It's More Fun Together: Developing Networks and Collaborations (5.09)
Case Study Presentation on RampMyCity (5.11)
Team Building in Large Cohorts with Smartsage, In-room Tutors, Games, & Mini-tasks (5.13 & 5.14)
10:00am - 10:30am
REFRESHMENT BREAK (5.15 & 5.16)
10:30am - 11:30am
Seeing the System: Systemic Constellations for Teaching Complexity (5.06)
From Theory to Practice in Leadership Education: Developing Self-Awareness Through Role Play (5.07)
Fun, Flexibility, and the Future of Learning: Rethinking Engagement in the Age of AI (5.09)
Giving Voice to Site Visits: Experiential Learning Reimagined in Management Higher Education (5.11)
Scavenging across campus – The elusive hunt for engagement activities that build teams and extend international business/management knowledge while remaining mindful of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) to ensure all can genuinely participate? (5.13 & 5.14)
11:30am - 11:45am
MINI-BREAK (5.15 & 5.16)
11:45am - 12:45pm
Meet the Journal Editors: Journal of Management Education and Management Teaching Review (5.13 & 5.14)
12:45pm - 1:45pm
LUNCH BREAK (5.15 & 5.16)
1:45pm - 2:45pm
Enhancing Student Motivation, Belonging, and Curiosity through an Industry Guest Speaker Series (5.06)
Enacting Transition Pedagogy: Relational and Reflexive Practice in Mass-Enrolment Management Education (5.07)
Is that you ChatGPT? A Roundtable Provocation on Gen AI in assessments - issues, experiences and a way forward. (5.09)
"It happens to everyone, but no one talks about it": Sharing Our Stories of Failure and Recovery as Management Educators (5.11)
Teaching the AI Generation: Necessary Skill or Ethical Minefield? (5.13 & 5.14)
2:45pm - 3:15pm
REFRESHMENT BREAK (5.15 & 5.16)
3:15pm - 4:15pm
Scaffolded Learning and Assessment in the Age of AI: Designing Authentic Learning Experiences (5.06)
A Short and Effective Service-Learning Project to Encourage Student Engagement and Agency in the Areas of Universal Design for Learning and Neurodivergence (5.07)
Icebreakers for a Complex World - Paper Development Workshop (5.09)
The Serious Side of Play: Computer Games and the Teaching of Management Concepts (5.13 & 5.14)
4:15pm - 4:30pm
CLOSING REMARKS (1)
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Closing Conference Dinner at The Wharf Hotel (The Wharf Hotel)