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* HERDSA Blog Post: Teaching the arts in virtual environments: rising to the challenge
* HERDSA SoTL SIG - June 2025 meeting - Next Friday! --- How to demonstrate SoTL excellence and leadership
* HERDSA/ASCILITE joint Webinar: Plugged In & Switched On: AI-Powered Possibilities for Online Engagement in Higher Education
* CAULLT webinar: Diverse leaders driving an institutional culture of academic integrity: Perspectives from Academics and Administ
* JANZSSA Call for Papers — Volume 33, Issue 2
* New book: Sustainability
* New Online First Articles in TESOL in Context 2025 Special Issue
* Seeking Participant Volunteers for a UNE Resilience in Higher Education and technology Qualitative Study
* New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development
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HERDSA Blog Post: Teaching the arts in virtual environments: rising to the challenge
Katie Burke, 11 June 2025
Katie Burke addresses the challenges and predictors of success for teaching the arts in virtual environments.
Read more: https://herdsa.org.au/herdsa-connect/teaching-arts-virtual-environments-...
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HERDSA/ASCILITE joint Webinar: Plugged In & Switched On: AI-Powered Possibilities for Online Engagement in Higher Education
Thursday 26 June Time: from 12 AEST | 2pm NZDT
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to reshape the higher education landscape, its potential to transform online student engagement is both exciting and complex. This thought-provoking webinar, presented by HERDSA’s Online Engagement Special Interest Group (SIG) in collaboration with ASCILITE, brings together an AI specialist (Professor Michael Cowling, ASCILITE President), an expert in online higher education (Professor Kate Ames, ACODE President) and a voice from a “middle-ground” position, someone who bridges both worlds (Professor Jason Lodge, Professor of Educational Psychology; Principal Practitioner, Generative AI, Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation at The University of Queensland). Together, the panel will explore how AI tools can support peer interaction, group work, community building, and inclusive participation. From AI-supported discussion prompts to dynamic learning networks, the panel will offer practical insights and critical perspectives on designing more connected and engaging online experiences in higher education. Expect a lively discussion! (And yes—this abstract got a little help from AI. We’re living the topic!)
Further information: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/m2bqzhVESkOSHSVYrYnBcQ#/registr...
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CAULLT webinar: Diverse leaders driving an institutional culture of academic integrity: Perspectives from Academics and Administ
20 June 2025 12:30 AEST
This webinar examines how diverse leaders — both academic and administrative — contribute to institutional cultures of academic integrity through distributed leadership. Presenters will discuss how leadership in academic integrity extends beyond senior roles, drawing on perspectives from academic integrity officers, administrators, and assessment experts. The session will address key challenges such as contract cheating and generative AI, alongside strategies for embedding integrity within university policies and practices. Hosted by CAULLT and AAIN, this event provides valuable insights for professionals involved in academic governance, policy implementation, and integrity education.
Further information: To register for this webinar, please click here (https://tinyurl.com/358vz84f).
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JANZSSA Call for Papers — Volume 33, Issue 2
31 July 2025
The Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association (JANZSSA) is now inviting submissions for the October 2025 issue.
With suggested topics including Indigenous student success; AI and technology; transnational, migrant, and refugee students; policy and governance; and international perspectives, JANZSSA invites submissions on any subject that contributes to the advancement of student services.
Submissions of peer-reviewed articles, professional papers, and book reviews are welcomed, and eligible authors who submit to JANZSSA may be invited to participate in the new Writing Coaching Program.
Further information: https://janzssa.scholasticahq.com/post/3235-call-for-papers-janzssa-volu...
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New book: Sustainability
Life member Robert Cannon has published a free, downloadable book on the sustainability of benefits from educational development. ‘Sustainability’ presents evidence about the sustainability of benefits from educational development projects, including in higher education, implemented in Indonesia up to 2023. Written for educational developers and students of development, ‘Sustainability’ uses evidence from international donors’ project reports and research. It addresses questions about project success, sustainability and scale-out, and provides evidence-based advice on ways to improve policy and practice to achieve sustained benefits at scale. That advice is widely applicable in developed and developing countries and in other academic and professional fields.
‘Sustainability’ is available free on ResearchGate here: https://tinyurl.com/23dxt2ck
Further information is available from the author: Robert.Cannon@anu.edu.au
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New Online First Articles in TESOL in Context 2025 Special Issue
Breaking deficit views through a "language as resource" orientation: One teacher’s journey of shifting lenses, Catriona Vo & Julie Choi, https://doi.org/10.21153/tesol2025vol33no2art2076
Pre-service teachers’ experiences of learning grammar to support EAL/D learners, Nishani Singh, David Caldwell & Michael Mu, https://doi.org/10.21153/tesol2025vol33no2art2095
Initial Teacher Education and the Emotional Geography of Languages: A conceptual intervention, Anwar Ahmed, https://doi.org/10.21153/tesol2025vol33no2art2096
Pedagogical translanguaging as "troublesome knowledge" in teacher education, Sue Ollerhead, Caroline Jane Moore-Lister & Gill Pennington, https://doi.org/10.21153/tesol2025vol33no2art2115
Further information: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/tesol/index
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Seeking Participant Volunteers for a UNE Resilience in Higher Education and technology Qualitative Study
We would like to hear from academics at all levels who are willing to participate in this UNE PhD qualitative study (Ethics approval: HE24-129, valid 10/7/2026) investigating how academics in Australian higher education institutions adapt and manage their practice using workplace technology to complete educative work. Your participation will involve completing a short pre-screening online survey, ensuring the target group, academics employed in a higher education institution in Australia, who use workplace technology for educative work are selected (public or private university). If you wish to participate please click on the link to complete the short survey. Please answer all questions in the survey to be considered in this study (including your full name and contact details).
https://unesurveys.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_08ocuZ46BaZ3bHE
An invitation to participate in an online, short video interview will be sent to participants who meet pre-screening criteria and interviewees need to submit a 300-400 word reflection (post interview). We look forward to hearing from you.
Please forward this request to academics, working in Australian Higher education institutions
Further information: contact Marie (Bernie) Fisher: mfisher@myune.edu.au or LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-f-51697368/
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New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development
Fostering technology-inclusive transitions in Irish higher education for students with disabilities, Klavdija Zorec, Aoife McNicholl, Deirdre Desmond, Trevor Boland, Anne O’Connor & Pamela Gallagher, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2503826
Quantifying the burden of organisational bulk emails in a business school, Vicente Bicudo de Castro, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2510662
Revitalizing research productivity in higher education: an inquiry into the motivational dynamics and engagement of postgraduates in Nigerian universities, Genevive Anulika Abazie & Fangyun Guo, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2503815
Personalising with AI in higher education: exploring educator characteristics and their role in shaping blended learning, Shaun McCarthy, Edward Palmer & Nickolas Falkner, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2510660
Where knowledge systems converge: collaborating to co-design decolonized psychology curricula in Australia, Jessica L. Mackelprang, Catherine Orr, Emily Darnett, April Goldring, Jordan Gibbs, Aliya Chalmers, Pui Tzan Chan, Monica Thielking & Justin Trounson, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2510659
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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.