* Reminder: HERDSA Executive Elections
* HERDSA Guides - special offer
* CFP for the HERDSA 2017 Conference
* Job: Professional Learning Consultant (Academic Level B) @ USQ
* Student Identity Verified Assessment Workshops in Brisbane (Feb 2) and Melbourne (Feb 6)
* Higher Education in the Headlines

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Reminder: HERDSA Executive Elections

Nominations for the HERDSA Executive for 2017-2019 close on February 17th.

The full information is available on the HERDSA website at http://herdsa.org.au/news/call-nominations-herdsa-executive-2017-2019

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HERDSA Guides - special offer

For a limited time HERDSA Guides are on sale for the reduced price of $30. All HERDSA Guides can be purchased from the HERDSA web site at http://herdsa.org.au/publications/guides The usual member discount of $5 still applies to all HERDSA members who log in to make their purchase.

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CFP for the HERDSA 2017 Conference
February 6th 2017 due date for abstracts

The HERDSA 2017 Conference Committee warmly invites you to submit proposals that address the theme of Curriculum Transformation. This conference theme provides an opportunity to explore curriculum as a framework for student learning and experience rather than as simply an organising framework for disciplinary knowledge. It provides a platform to examine how quality sits at the centre of the process and the approaches needed to support for staff in curriculum development and innovative teaching practice. 

We invite proposals for 20 minute presentations, posters and roundtables. Abstracts of 400 words (max) are invited to address one of the four sub-themes for the conference: 

* curriculum transformation drivers
* facilitating curriculum transformation
* practices underpinning curriculum transformation
* students in curriculum transformation

We are particularly interested in attracting student participants to the conference, so please don't hesitate to forward this CFP to any potentially interested undergraduate or postgraduate students.

The HERDSA 2017 conference will be held in Darling Harbour, Sydney 28-29th June 2017. 

Early bird registration is now open.

Further information http://www.herdsa2017.org/call-for-proposals.php

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Job: Professional Learning Consultant (Academic Level B) @ USQ
20 January 2017

The Professional Learning Consultant will work collaboratively to develop, implement and review programs, resources and services aimed at supporting the development and learning needs of academics in regard to their learning and teaching practice. The position of Professional Learning Consultant works in a highly motivated, vibrant and collaborative team environment. You will possess a PhD in higher education or a related field, have a good understanding of pedagogy and the processes of professional and organisational development as they relate to learning and teaching. You will be an exceptional communicator and relationship builder keen to make a genuine difference to learning and teaching at USQ. This position is based in Toowoomba and is an Academic Level B appointment.

Further information http://tinyurl.com/hhsoujw

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Student Identity Verified Assessment Workshops in Brisbane (Feb 2) and Melbourne (Feb 6)
Registration deadline: Monday January 30th

Dr Christine Slade & A/Prof Susan Rowland
The University of Queensland

Contract cheating website services are a serious threat to academic integrity in universities because they challenge the authenticity of student authorship in assessment. Current plagiarism detection strategies do not catch contract cheating students because their purchased assessment responses are individualised and users’ details are hidden behind sophisticated fire walls. In response we need to ensure that students genuinely complete work for which they get university credit.

In these workshops we aim to bring together the creative minds of academics, learning designers and others’ experienced in assessment design across the university sector to develop a collection of high-stakes-assessment case studies that demonstrate ways to strengthen the verification of student identity in undertaking these tasks. The workshops are funded by the Asia Pacific Forum on Educational Integrity (APFEI) and a revised collection of assessment case studies will be placed on the APFEI’s website. Registered participants will be contacted by the facilitators about possible involvement in an accompanying research project.

Dr Slade and A/Prof Rowland will facilitate the two half day workshops. Places are limited.

Please register with links provided below.
Register for the Brisbane workshop here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/brisbane-student-identity-verified-asses...
Register for the Melbourne workshop here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/melbourne-student-identity-verified-asse...

Further information c.slade@uq.edu.au

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Higher Education in the Headlines

On the Front Lines of a New Culture War | Steve Kolowich | Chronicle of Higher Eduction | 06 January, 2017
St. Cloud State University spent 15 years trying to become a beacon of diversity and tolerance while its city fought over the arrival of Muslim refugees. Then Donald Trump came along.
http://www.chronicle.com/article/On-the-Front-Lines-of-a-New/238770

Salary increases for Russell Group v-cs beat staff pay | Jack Grove |  Times Higher Eduction | 05 January, 2017
Average cost of remunerating v-cs in group rose by 6 per cent last year but salaries still lag those in top US and Australian universities
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/salary-increases-russell-group...