November 2020

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HERDSA Notices 4 November 2020

* HERDSA webinar series - Blended Writing - Helen Sword
* HERDSA CONNECT available - download free
* Advancing Academic Development Webinar
* Factors impacting English Teacher Professional Development & Student English Learning in Vietnamese Higher Education
* Have you registered yet? CAULLT webinar and virtual conferences next week
* The wicked problems of teaching and learning: An international study
* PhD call for participants
* Invitation to participate in a research project


HERDSA Notices 11 November 2020

* Register now to attend HERDSA 2021
* HERDSA webinar series - Blended Writing - Helen Sword
* Factors impacting English Teacher Professional Development & Student English Learning in Vietnamese Higher Education
* World Access to Higher Education Day Australasia
* NCSEHE panel discussion: Tips for outreach staff on how to evaluate outreach programs for Indigenous students
* HE Research Scholars meeting 10: Doing things with theory in HE research
* Submissions for Special Issue of Student Success closing soon


HERDSA Notices 18 November 2020

* HERDSA 2021 Registration now open
* Academic Development SIG Virtual Cafe Chat
* HERDSA Webinar: Sustainability in Learning and Teaching: Making It Happen.
* Call for papers: SFDN Conference 2021
* Senior Educational Development Officer Role at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
* Beyond the ‘New Norm’ - Academic Voices: Opportunities, Challenges & Experiences with Digital Teaching, Learning and Assessment
* Blame it on the lockdown!
* New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development


HERDSA Notices 25 November 2020

* HERDSA 2021 Conference - Call for new abstracts now open
* Academic Development SIG Virtual Cafe Chat
* HERDSA Webinar: Sustainability in Learning and Teaching: Making It Happen
* New Lecturer Role opportunity, Work-Integrated Learning (Education focused) University of Sydney Business School
* Webinar- Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching (MELT): forging connections
* Book launch: Exploring University Teaching and Learning: Experience and Context
* New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development


Blended writing

We’re all familiar with the term “blended learning,” a style of education whereby students learn via electronic and online media as well as traditional face-to-face teaching.  This webinar will explore the concept of “blended writing,” a mode of writing whereby writers think, work and communicate using both digital and analog tools, bringing the material affordances of pens, paper and notebooks into the virtual realm of websites, learning management systems and Zoom.  What are the potential cognitive and creative benefits of blended writing for our students, our colleagues and ourselves, pa