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Engagement Over Attendance: Meeting the Needs of Modern Learners

Tegan Bradley discusses strategies we can use to enhance student engagement, while being mindful of the needs of the modern learner.

Empowering Professional Identity Formation: Pathways to Success

In this post, Abigail Lewis delves into the key factors shaping the professional identity of health science students

International academics: Who are they and what are their barriers & opportunities in academia?

Linda Ng & Jasvir Kaur Nachatar Singh reflect on finding their identity as international academics and share their experiences of barriers and opportunities they have encountered along the way.

Talk Nerdy to Me: How Interactive Oral Assessments Can Shake Up Science Labs

Chris Della Vedova and Sarah Davey take us through their journey of introducing interactive oral assessments into a lab based course

Process over product - What is the utility of process based assessments?

Tim Fawns observes that the advent of gen-AI thrust process based assessments into the limelight but asks, are process based assessments really the answer?
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Leading HERDSA: A lifelong Impact

Shelda Debowski describes her journey to HERDSA presidency and back again - insights from, and rewards of being the HERDSA President
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Embedding English language support before the census date to ensure student success

Caroline Havery & Rosalie Goldsmith reveal what they have learned by leading a whole-of-institution approach to early low stakes assessment of academic language and literacy skills.

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