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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.

COVID-19, ‘Socially just pedagogy’, and the virtual conference

Shannon Johnston asks, are there any indirect positive outcomes of COVID-19 for higher education conferences such as a socially just conferences?

In the shadows of policy: Is student learning getting the spotlight it deserves?

Jason Lodge looks at the Australian Universities Accord Interim Report and finds a lot of talk of teaching but very little about student learning.

Designing Learning for Intensive Modes of Study

Peter Kandlbinder reviews the latest HERDSA Guide by Gayani Samarawickrema, Kaye Cleary, Sally Male & Trish McCluskey and finds a trove of helpful advice for managing curriculum change at the institution, degree and subject level.
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