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* Two New HERDSA Guides Now Available
* I-MELT short papers for presentations, workshops and posters are due 24 July 2017
* Centre for Research in Assessment in Digital Learning - 2 x PhD Scholarship Opportunities
* Call for Book Chapters: The Triple P: Philosophy, Pedagogy and Practice. Engaging students in transitional educational spaces
* Monash University - Senior Lecturer - School of Nursing and Midwifery
* National Association of Enabling Educators of Australia Conference 2017
* Resources for Educational Developers
* Higher Education in the Headlines
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Two New HERDSA Guides Now Available
Two new HERDSA Guides were launch at the 2017 Annual HERDSA Conference.
Improving Teaching and Learning in Science and Engineering Laboratories by Caroline Baillie, Trina Jorre De St Jorre & Elizabeth Hazel
This new Guide shifts laboratory experiences to those which would encourage deeper approaches to learning - more meaningful engaged experiences in which students were able to develop creative critical thinking, alongside the important work of transferring theory into practice.
Leading the Academy: Distributed leadership for innovation in higher education by Sandra Jones
In supporting a distributed leadership approach for the sector this HERDSA Guide aims to increase the sector’s understanding of, and practice in, distributed leadership. It brings together research into the theory and practice of a distributed leadership approach. The question then becomes one of how an increased distributed leadership practice can be supported across the academy.
HERDSA Guides can be purchased online at http://herdsa.org.au/publications/guides
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I-MELT short papers for presentations, workshops and posters are due 24 July 2017
Dear colleagues
It is less than two weeks before I-MELT short papers are due for presentations, workshops and posters.
I-MELT delegates are interested in diverse approaches, including your own adaptation, use, evaluation and/or critique informed by the Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching. MELT have been emerging spontaneously from the Research Skill Development framework, as people adapt its terminology to fit their own contexts, for example the Work Skill Development framework for WIL, Optimising Problem Solving pentagon for Engineering, or Clinical Reflection Skills framework for working directly with patients (see www.i-melt.edu.au). Numerous MELT have emerged over the past year, and so the conference will be an opportunity to celebrate diverse articulations and configurations of MELT, and a variety of ways of using these models that share core conceptual parameters. If you use any of the above models, or have adapted your own MELT, consider submitting a short paper.
With a Research Stream and a Practice Stream, there will be opportunities to learn how others have employed MELT face-to-face, in blended-mode and fully online, in laboratories, clinical environments, field and literature-orientated, including engagement in standard subjects and with employers, in industries, schools and other communities.
Some accepted short papers will be invited to submit a full paper for a Special Issue of the Journal of Teaching and Learning Practice: Research Skill Development spanning Higher Education: Connections, critiques and curricula. In addition to I-MELT papers, a call for Expressions of Interest has gone out for this special issue of JUTLP http://ro.uow.edu.au/jutlp/latestnews.html . If you submit a short paper to I-MELT, there is no need to submit an EoI for the journal article on the same topic.
I hope to learn of your work at I-MELT.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask query@i-melt.edu.au
John Willison for the I-MELT Organising Committee
Further information www.i-melt.edu.au
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Centre for Research in Assessment in Digital Learning - 2 x PhD Scholarship Opportunities
Closes: 31/07/2017
Please find a link to Two PhD Scholarship opportunities with the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning, Portfolio of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Deakin University below. The student/s will be based at Deakin University's Melbourne City Centre. The PhD student will work with researchers in the Centre in the area of ‘Assessment in Higher Education’ with a variety of topics to consider.
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Call for Book Chapters: The Triple P: Philosophy, Pedagogy and Practice. Engaging students in transitional educational spaces
1 September 2017
A book edited by: Dr Angela Jones, Ms Anita Olds and Dr Joanne Lisciandro
Centre for University Teaching and Learning, Murdoch University
We are soliciting chapter proposals for an edited collection entitled: The Triple P: Philosophy, Pedagogy and Practice. This monograph aims to focus on the relationship between philosophy, pedagogy and practice when designing programs/units/courses for transitioning students to new educational spaces in the university environment. We invite authors working in all areas of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Enabling/Bridging education, first year transition, graduate and postgraduate program, and other relevant education disciplines and fields of study to propose a book chapter on the theme. While we will consider chapters based on one element of the overarching theme, we are looking for chapters that show consideration to the relationship between all three elements. Both single and multiple-authored works will be considered.
QUESTIONS TO CONSIDER
What is the role of a philosophy in a program’s course design?
Does a program/course need to have an underpinning philosophy to work?
Chapters may include case studies of program/course design that demonstrate the relationships between philosophy, pedagogy and practice.
RECOMMENDED TOPICS
Recommended topics of the book include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Enabling Education
• Bridging Programs
• Transitional educational spaces (Enabling, Undergraduate, Postgraduate)
• Transition pedagogy
• Widening Participation
• Social and Emotional Learning
Please send through a 500 word abstract by 1st August 2017 to a.jones@murdoch.edu.au
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Monash University - Senior Lecturer - School of Nursing and Midwifery
Sunday 13 August 2017, 11.55pm AEST
Join one of the largest schools of Nursing and Midwifery in Australia and work in a vibrant and supportive learning environment.
The experience and skills which you bring to this role will make a significant contribution to the teaching effort of the school and prepare students for a rewarding career in healthcare. Your substantial experience will enable you to initiate and develop course material, prepare and deliver engaging lectures and seminars and provide a program of study for honours and postgraduate students.
To view a Position Description or to apply please visit:
http://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/565201/senior-lecturer-sch...
Further information http://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/565201/senior-lecturer-sch...
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National Association of Enabling Educators of Australia Conference 2017
29 November – 1 December 2017
Registration is now open for the 6th Biennial Conference of the National Association of Enabling Educators of Australia to be held on Gold Coast 29 November – 1 December 2017.
The conference brings together like-minded individuals who teach, design, work-in, support or research tertiary enabling programs in all their many forms.
· The Conference theme is Enabling Learning, Enabling Teaching
· Two pre-conference workshops are available
The conference is hosted by Southern Cross University.
Visit our website for registration or more details: http://scu.edu.au/naeeaconference2017/
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Resources for Educational Developers
The Educational Developers Caucus of the STLHE is happy to announce the release of Rapport-Building for Educational Developers, the Educational Developers Caucus second guide in its Educational Development Guide Series:https://www.stlhe.ca/affiliated-groups/educational-developers-caucus/gui...
Authors - Kim West, Carolyn Hoessler, Rebekah Bennetch, Tereigh Ewet-Bauer, Mary Wilson, Jean-Pascal Beaudoin, Donna E. Ellis, Veronica M. Brown, Julie A. Timmermans, and Roselynn Verwoord – explore rapport in educational development practice, integrating scholarship from diverse fields and insights from practitioners in the field.
This practical resource, as well as the inaugural guide, The Educational Developer’s Portfolio, are freely available on the Educational Developers Caucus website: https://www.stlhe.ca/affiliated-groups/educational-developers-caucus/gui...
Jessica Raffoul
Centre for Teaching and Learning, University of Windsor
email: jraffoul@uwindsor.ca
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Higher Education in the Headlines
Uni has a N Korean problem | JULIE HARE | Australian Higher Education | 12 July, 2017
The University of Southern Queensland has been described as ‘the North Korea of universities’ amid criticism of its governance.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/turmoil-as-usq-plans-re...
First UK-EU branch campus post-Brexit under consideration | Ellie Bothwell | Times Higher Education | 6 July, 2017
King’s College London and TU Dresden ‘Transcampus’ aims to strengthen ties between UK and Germany
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/first-uk-eu-branch-campus-post...