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* HERDSA Connect Blog: In the shadows of policy: Is student learning getting the spotlight it deserves?
* Join us for the NZ Branch AGM
* Roger Landbeck Professional Development Fund 2023 awarded to Aparna Datey
* ASCILITE TELAS Reviewer Certification Workshop ONLINE - Final Call
* CRADLE Seminar Series: The politics of student belonging: storying through words and images
* Invitation to Participate in ePortfolio Research Survey – Calling All Tertiary Education Professionals in Australia and NZ
* Higher Education for Good
* New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development
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HERDSA Connect Blog: In the shadows of policy: Is student learning getting the spotlight it deserves?
Jason M. Lodge, 27 October, 2023
Jason Lodge looks at the Australian Universities Accord Interim Report and finds a lot of talk of teaching but very little about student learning.
Read More: https://herdsa.org.au/herdsa-connect/shadows-policy-student-learning-getting-spotlight-it-deserves
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Join us for the NZ Branch AGM
Mon 2023-11-06 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM NZT
Kia ora koutou,
We're excited to invite all NZ Branch members to our upcoming Annual General Meeting (AGM). Your participation is crucial, and we look forward to your involvement in shaping the future of our branch. Here are the details:
Date: 6th November
Time: 2:00-2.30pm NZT
Location: Zoom meeting
Agenda: Available on the HERDSA NZ website herdsa.nz.org
Zoom Meeting Link https://waikato.zoom.us/j/88621241416?from=addon
Please mark your calendars and make sure to review the agenda in advance. Your input and ideas are invaluable as we discuss important matters that impact our community.
Don't miss this opportunity to connect with fellow members, share your insights, and contribute to our mission. We hope to see you there!
Ngā mihi nui
Rob Wass
NZ Branch Chair
Further information: rob.wass@otago.ac.nz
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Roger Landbeck Professional Development Fund 2023 awarded to Aparna Datey
Dr Aparna Datey is the recipient of the Roger Landbeck Professional Development Fund 2023-24. Her project is titled ‘Bridging the global North-South divide in architectural design education: Exploring indigenous knowing and thinking from India on architecture for addressing current global challenges.’ This project explores what design educators can learn from the indigenous knowledge of Vāstu Vidya (Sanskrit for ‘knowledge of architecture’), which is a holistic approach to design, construction, and training of architects, for addressing current global challenges, particularly designing for wellbeing. Datey will visit a traditional educational institution in India and interview their teaching staff to understand how the knowledge is taught and translated to students. As an architectural educator with teaching experiences in the US and Australia, and undergraduate education in India, Datey is acutely aware that architectural education and design pedagogy is shaped and interrogated in the Global North (Western Europe and North America) and influences various pedagogical approaches in the Global South (which includes India and Oceania). Furthermore, because of British colonialism in India the validity of this knowledge has been systematically undermined. This project can provide valuable insights for translating the knowledge and integrating the teaching of such knowledges in contemporary universities to internationalise and decolonise design education.
Further information: https://www.herdsa.org.au/roger-landbeck-professional-development-fund
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ASCILITE TELAS Reviewer Certification Workshop ONLINE - Final Call
Thursday 9 November and Friday 10 November
Time: 10am-1.30pm (AEDT)
Location: The workshop will be online over 2 half days
Cost(inc GST): $250 (members); $400 (non-members – includes 12 month ASCILITE membership fee).
The Technology Enhanced Learning Accreditation Standards (TELAS) are a set of internationally benchmarked standards designed to assess the quality of online learning, particularly in relation to the tertiary sector. They provide institutions with the means to assess and evaluate the affordances of their online learning environments and thereby guide quality enhancements.
The next TELAS Reviewer Certification Workshop is now open for registration. To assist with confirmation of numbers please register ASAP. You may register and request an invoice.
For further details and to register, visit the TELAS website. https://www.telas.edu.au/becoming-a-reviewer/workshops/
Please direct any queries and/or expressions of interest to admin@telas.edu.au
Further information: https://www.telas.edu.au/becoming-a-reviewer/workshops/
Further information: admin@telas.edu.au
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CRADLE Seminar Series: The politics of student belonging: storying through words and images
9 November 2023, 6.00-7.30pm AEDT
In this seminar, we will present research funded by the Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE) on student belonging, which is broadly considered to be a positive foundation for students’ well-being and success at university. We start by presenting a brief history of belonging research in higher education and invite you to think more critically about belonging. Drawing upon empirical data from interviews and video-blogs with 30 students in the UK and Australia, our research highlights how students experience and create multiple belongings. We identify how calls for integrated, uniform, approaches to building belonging in universities are unhelpful. Instead, we foreground the situated and political ways in which students make and curate meaningful and purposeful connections and safe spaces. Our research points to the personalised nature of belonging. We show how individual learners often enact belonging in ways that disrupt or challenge institutional assumptions and expectations. These insights are particularly important in the current higher education context, with universities in many countries, such as Australia, setting ambitious targets to expand the access and participation of students from more diverse backgrounds. We advocate for critical discussions between staff and students related to the affordances of embracing the multiple ways students and staff choose to belong, at different times, and in different spaces.
Presenters:
Professor Rola Ajjawi is Professor of Educational Research at the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE), Deakin University, Australia, where she has led an extensive programme of research into student failure and success, with particular interest in equity, feedback, and learning cultures.
Associate Professor Karen Gravett is Associate Professor and Director of Research at the Surrey Institute of Education at the University of Surrey, UK, where her research focuses on the theory-practice of higher education, and explores the areas of student engagement, belonging, and relational pedagogies.
Professor Sarah O’Shea is the Dean, Graduate Research at CSU as well as an internationally recognised researcher, who applies sociological perspectives to the study of higher education equity and how under-represented student cohorts enact success within university, navigate transition into and through this environment, manage competing identities and negotiate aspirations for self and others.
Further information: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/cradle-seminar-series-the-politics-of-st...
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Invitation to Participate in ePortfolio Research Survey – Calling All Tertiary Education Professionals in Australia and NZ
Greetings! As part of the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning’s (AAEEBL) Digital Ethics Task Force, we are conducting a research project to better understand the field of ePortfolio work in Australian and New Zealand tertiary education.
If you are involved in ePortfolio work in either of these countries as part of your professional role, we invite you to participate in this research survey. Your valuable insights will contribute to the mapping of ePortfolio practices and help us gain a better understanding of common practices and the labour involved.
The survey is anonymous and will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. Your participation is voluntary, and you can choose to close the survey at any time if you wish to withdraw.
If you are interested in participating, please click on the following link to access the Project Information Sheet, Consent Form and online survey: https://uniofqueensland.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4HeD81LrfnnBtBQ
Your contribution to this research project would be greatly appreciated.
Further information: Contact A/P Christine Slade c.slade@uq.edu.au
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Higher Education for Good
The book "Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures" has been published open access by Open Book Publishers . This mix of new and well-established voices provides hopeful new ways of thinking about Higher Education across a range of contexts, and how to concretise initiatives to deal with local and global challenges.
Further information: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0363
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New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development
Enhancing perceptions of employability amongst first-year arts students and implications for student belonging, Rachel Busbridge, Ashlee Cunningham & Mark Chou, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2269864
Promoting community and competence: the development and evaluation of an international research training network of sexual and gender diverse (SGD) emerging scholars, Shelley L. Craig, Ashley S. Brooks, Andrew D. Eaton, Kaitrin Doll, Ignacio Lozano-Verduzco, Nelson Pang, Lauren B. McInroy & Daragh T. McDermott, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2269889
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In the spirit of reconciliation HERDSA acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australasia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.