On Thursday 20 November 2025, the HERDSA Online Engagement in Higher Education SIG convened the final event for the year (facilitated by Dr Hilary Ng and Associate Professor Alice Brown).
* HERDSA Blog Post: Enhancing Reflective Practice with AI-Facilitated Dialogue
* HERDSA Community: Reimagining Assessment in Uncertain Times: Dialogues from the UK and Australia
* Happening THIS WEEK – Final Call! HERDSA Online Engagement in HE (SiG Event)
* Education Focused Academics: Navigating the tension between SoTL and the discipline
* HERDSA 2025 Members Survey: We’d Love Your Feedback
* CALL FOR EOI - Editors of TESOL in Context 2026-2028 (DEADLINE EXTENDED)
* New articles in Higher Education Research and Development
* HERDSA Blog Post: Reflections as International Academics: Presentation, Roundtable, and the Inaugural SIG Meeting at HERDSA 2025, Perth
* HERDSA Community: HERDSA Hong Kong Branch Dinner Dialogue
* HERDSA Community: HERDSA SoTL Modules – Setting the Bar in World Standard Support for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
* HERDSA Online Engagement in HE (SiG event) Widening the Doors in HE: Implications for Engaging Underrepresented Students Online
* HERDSA SoTL SIG: Education Focused Academics: Navigating the tension between SoTL and the discipline
Author - Associate Professor Alice Brown, University of
Southern Queensland
As a leading professional association, the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) is proud to announce the launch of the redeveloped HERDSA Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Modules.
* HERDSA Blog Post: Goodbye, online exams! Rethinking online assessment with a Digital Decision Index
* HERDSA Community: NSW Branch nominates a new Branch Executive
* The count down is on for the release of the redeveloped HERDSA SoTL Modules
* HERDSA Online Engagement in HE (SiG event) Widening the Doors in HE: Implications for Engaging Underrepresented Students Online
* CRADLE Seminar Series: 'More than the individual: transforming feedback cultures'
* CALL FOR EOI: Editors - TESOL in Context 2026-2028
On 5 November 2025, the HERDSA Assessment Quality Special Interest Group and ASCILITE’s Transforming Assessment community jointly hosted a thought-provoking webinar titled Reimagining Assessment in Uncertain Times: Dialogues from the UK and Australia. The session brought together two leading voices to explore how higher education can evolve assessment practices amid rapid technological changes and persistent institutional inertia towards meaningful assessment systems.
* HERDSA Blog Post: A Singapore Branch to put “Asia” into Australasia
* New HERSDA SoTL Modules Coming Soon – Module 4 – SoTL Research Methods – Action research, surveys, observations, interviews,
* NERA Conference 2026 - a Nordic conference for educational research.
* CRADLE Seminar Series: 'More than the individual: transforming feedback cultures'
* CAULLT webinar: AI’s First Disrupted Profession: Practical Strategies for Teaching in a Changing Higher Education Sector
* New articles in Higher Education Research and Development
* HERDSA Blog Post: No-Code, No Problem: How Educators Are Building Their Own Learning Apps in Minutes
* HERDSA Community: PhD by publication, prior publication and creative works: Publishing Pathways and Avoiding Potholes Workshop Recordings
* The Pedagogy of Student Belonging and Wellbeing Special Interest Group Meeting 31/10/25, 12pm
* HERDSA Online Engagement in HE (SiG event) Widening the Doors in HE: Implications for Engaging Underrepresented Students Online
The HERDSA Hong Kong Branch hosted its signature Dinner Dialogue on 23 October 2025, bringing together local members and colleagues for an evening of engaging discussion and collegial exchange over dinner. Since its founding in 1997, the Dinner Dialogue series has been a hallmark of the Branch, providing a relaxed yet intellectually stimulating environment for educators to explore emerging issues in higher education.
* HERDSA Blog Post: ‘Keep it simple’ to make moments of authentic learning visible
* HERDSA Community: From vision to practice: Wrapping up the Australasian Symposium on Programmatic Approaches to Assessment
* HERDSA SoTL SIG -- This Friday!!! -- The reflective academic: Experiencing forms of autoethnography in SoTL
* Are you up for a coffee and SoTL chat?
* HERDSA Webinar: The 5C Formula for Impactful SoTL Projects
* Reimagining Assessment in Uncertain Times: Dialogues from the UK and Australia
