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Increasing student engagement, satisfaction and learning through pre-class activities

Student preparation for in-class practical experiences enables students to confidently and competently apply theory to practical activities. Despite developing quality preparatory resources, most students were choosing not to engage. Associate Professor Jennifer Wilson therefore repackaged the resources into a series of gamified, online, adaptive, laboratory preparatory modules (GOAL-PMs) to successfully increase student engagement, satisfaction and learning in her Biochemistry course laboratory sessions as measured by system metrics, student survey and focus groups.

Switching on the Creativity Gene

Science is well known as a creative endeavour, with the generation of new ideas requiring inspiration and imaginative engagement. Activities that encourage divergent/imaginative thinking such as the creation of aesthetic/transformative materials can not only help students develop their own creativity, but also help them learn the content. Despite the well-known benefits of fostering creativity, students in the sciences rarely get the opportunity to develop or demonstrate this in assessment.

Synchronous on-campus & remote delivery - are we all on the same screen?

Join HERDSA Victoria Branch for an interactive session where we will be modelling synchronous dual delivery with both on-campus and remote participants. We’ll be sharing lived experiences of teaching in this format, exploring how it is evolving and discussing what works and what doesn’t.

This hands-on session will be facilitated on-campus by Darci Taylor (Deakin University - Geelong Waterfront Campus) and remotely by Puspha Sinnayah (Victoria University).

Publishing in ASRHE 

Advancing Scholarship and Research in Higher Education (ASRHE) is a new journal in the HERDSA stable. The purpose of the journal is to progress learning and teaching in higher education by advancing scholarship and research. As such, it invites both complete research and research in progress articles on higher education.  

 In the first half of this webinar, we will talk about three of the journal’s characteristics:   

- Research in progress article category; 
- Creative modes of dissemination of research; 
- Group-based peer review process;  

An editor’s guide to publishing in HERD

Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) is a highly ranked international journal that publishes scholarly articles that make a significant and original contribution to the theory, practice or research of higher education. If you have ever wondered about what processes are used to select and publish articles in HERD, or if you would like to find out how you can become a reviewer in a higher education journal, then this is the workshop for you!

Academic Integrity in Online Assessment: preparing and supporting students and staff while ensuring robust systems

The advent of COVID-19 has necessitated a rapid movement to online assessment for universities across the world. Due to technological challenges, cost, and concerns around privacy and surveillance, many universities have chosen to make use of non-invigilated online exams. There has been a resultant upsurge in misconduct cases.

Changing definitions of Scholarship: What will it mean for you? 

If you missed our informative and provocative discussion of the review into scholarship definitions currently being conducted by the Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), you can watch the webinar recording here:

From Band-aid to Sustainable Transformation

HERDSA Hong Kong Branch are pleased to announce an online panel discussion facilitated by Dr Anna KWAN to share and discuss arrangements of online learning, teaching and assessment during the COVID-19 outbreak and implications for higher education.

The panel will discuss major shifts and experiences in learning and teaching across six Hong Kong institutions, providing valuable insights for those of us working across Hong Kong and for our colleagues teaching well beyond Hong Kong.

Sustainability in learning and teaching: Making it happen.

Sustainability in Learning and Teaching: Making it Happen offers three essential perspectives on why a focus on sustainability must be central for higher education institutions, and how this focus on sustainability can be embedded into learning and teaching. To be shared in the webinar will be guiding resources, practical strategies and concrete examples. The webinar will bring together insights borne of major projects and of extensive practice of effecting change at both institutional and disciplinary levels.

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

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