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* HERDSA Webinar - Student engagement in employability-building activities and the role of personal career resources in securing work
* Call For Expressions of Interest for Editor(s) of HERDSA Connect Blog
* HERDSA Special Interest Group Online Engagement in Higher Education: Upcoming Event
* New Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Special Interest Group Initial Meeting
* HERDSA Webinar - Evidence-informed peer review of educational practice: A hands-on approach - Part 1
* HERDSA Webinar - The ecology of open education and becoming ‘incrementally open’.
* Ngā hau e whā o Tāwhirimatea - Embedding mātauranga Māori in tertiary education
* Workshops for Crafting and Refining a 2024 HERDSA Conference Abstract
* Registration Now Open for ACEN 2024 Conference
* 2024 Inclusive Communication Symposium
* New JANZSSA article: Developing guidelines to support trans, gender diverse and non-binary communities
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HERDSA Webinar- Student engagement in employability-building activities and the role of personal career resources in securing work
Thursday 12th October, 2023 1.00 to 2.00pm AEST
This webinar presents findings from a HERDSA grant which explored higher education student engagement in activities intended to develop employability. It draws on survey and focus group data gathered from recent graduates to consider levels of engagement and the role of personal agency and socio-cultural, structural and institutional factors. Further, it considers how personal career resources, such as social career support networking, cultural capital, career confidence, career insights and professional clarity, can support students in securing graduate-level employment. The researchers will reflect on the findings and opportunities for the sector to better support students in realising their career goals.
Further information: https://www.herdsa.org.au/herdsa-webinar-series
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Call For Expressions of Interest for Editor(s) of HERDSA Connect Blog
Due date 12th October 2023
The HERDSA Executive is seeking Expressions of Interest the position of Editor(s) of the HERDSA Connect Blog. The HERDSA Connect Blog offers comment and discussion on higher education issues; provides information about relevant publications, programs and research and celebrates the achievements of our HERDSA members. The HERDSA Connect Blog links members of the HERDSA community in Australasia and beyond by sharing branch activities, member perspectives and achievements, book reviews, comments on contemporary issues in higher education, and conference reflections. Members are encouraged to respond to articles and engage in ongoing discussion relevant to higher education and aligned to HERDSA’s values and mission.
The HERDSA Connect Blog aims to inspire, connect and inform researchers, developers and practitioners in the Australasian higher education sector and inspire both members and non-members to become involved with the HERDSA community by providing an opportunity for less formal publication and discussion on inspirational practices, projects, resources, research, successes and ideas.
The appointment will be for six months initially, commencing 1 November 2023. Applications will be considered from both individuals and small teams.
Expressions of interest should
1. State clearly applicant’s proposed editorial approach
2. Indicate the roles of individuals within the team (if you are submitting a team application)
The following criteria must also be addressed:
1. Experience in editing and publishing online and awareness of the issues and challenges associated with editing a public blog.
2. Graphic design experience and html coding knowledge.
3. Commitment to member engagement.
4. Project management skills and expertise.
5. A strong reputation in research and publication across the higher education sector.
6. Commitment to the HERDSA goals of HERDSA.
7. Membership of HERDSA.
Members of the HERDSA Executive will be happy to respond to any initial inquiries. Further information can be obtained by contacting the Chair of the Selection Committee - Professor Katrina Strampel.
Written expressions of interest should be brief, address the selection criteria (max 2 pages) and include a Curriculum Vitae. Submissions must be received by 12 October 2023 – 5.00pm AEST and sent to office@herdsa.org.au. An acceptance of your submission will be sent via email to you. If you do not receive this please contact the HERDSA office before the closing date.
Professor Katrina Strampel
HERDSA Vice-President
Email: k.strampel@ecu.edu.au
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HERDSA Special Interest Group Online Engagement in Higher Education: Upcoming Event
Thursday 19th October 2023 - 6:00pm – 7:30pm - AEST
Building research clusters & networking about online engagement in higher education.
About this event:
There are many topics worthy of further investigation and exploration related to the overarching theme of online engagement in higher education. These include, but are not limed to: student online engagement, pedagogical implications of online engagement, facilitation and designing of learning for online engagement, frameworks that inform online engagement; student non-engagement, social, cognitive, teaching presence, student motivation, tools and strategies that foster online engagement, tracking student online engagement, barriers and enablers of engagement, and considerations for equity and access to student online engagement.
Join us online for this very special HERDSA Online Engagement in Higher Education SIG ‘extended meetup’ to build national/international networks, research clusters and explore opportunities and possibilities of researching a phenomenon related to online engagement in Higher Education.
Date & Time: Thursday 19th October 2023 - 6:00pm – 7:30pm - AEST
Register via the Eventbrite link below:
Further information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/research-clusters-networking-about-online-e...
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New Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Special Interest Group Initial Meeting
20 October
Online meeting - Introducing the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Special Interest Group: Do YOU speak SoTL?
Please join us as we launch the newest HERDSA Special Interest Group. If you are intending to join the meeting, we ask that you complete the online survey before the meeting. Survey link https://forms.office.com/r/unvuzLU2PE. The data will assist us to gauge the SoTL experience and needs of the participants.
Facilitators: A/Prof Deb Clarke, Dr Trisha Poole, Sue Sharpe
When: October 20th 2023 12noon-1.00pm Australian Daylight Saving Time
Where: https://usq.zoom.us/j/87412274293?pwd=LzBZaGFDdmw2NVM5ZUMwZ1h0VEpTQT09
What: As the initial SOTL SIG meeting we will explore the aims, focus and operational procedures of the SIG, in addition to examining participants’ current understandings of and experience in SoTL.
- Session outline
- Welcome & Introduction
- Explain shared distributed model of facilitation and active engagement approach
- Show/discuss findings of pre-poll - who we are as a group
- Explain the quadrants of a theoretical scholarship model
- Identify the location of participants in the quadrants (live poll)
- Briefly discuss poll findings and link the quadrants to who we are and SoTL definition
- Introduce the importance of a shared understanding of SoTL
- Live poll - the definition of SoTL
- Describe and start breakout room for collaborative definition of SoTL
- In breakout rooms: Create collaborative definition of SoTL
- Close meeting and identify next meeting plan goals:
- Present the compiled Miro definitions and present findings
- Collaboratively decide purpose of the SIG
- Identify facilitators for leading the second SIG meeting.
Further information: Deb Clarke dclarke@csu.edu.au
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HERDSA Webinar - Evidence-informed peer review of educational practice: A hands-on approach - Part 1
Tu 24 October, 13:00-14:00 AEDT
Join Dr Alexandra Johnston (University of Melbourne) for this 2-part, interactive series, “Evidence-informed peer review of educational practice: A hands-on approach.”
In the first part of this hands-on series, you will:
● Access an evidence-informed artefact to support your engagement in the interactive workshop sessions.
● Engage in critical approaches to evidence-informed peer review of educational practice to support your teaching growth and development.
● Interact with a peer to provide and receive feedback on teaching based on the principles of feedback literacy.
● Form a safe, informed, and critical community of practice to sustain teaching growth and development across your career in academia.
Details about the second part of the series will be posted in October 2023
Dr Alexandra Johnston (PhD) is a neurodivergent teaching and learning specialist with the Arts Teaching Innovation Team at the University of Melbourne. Alexandra’s PhD explored peer review of teaching in Australian higher education. Her substantive theory, becoming scholarly, is an approach to safeguarding, affording, and sustaining opportunities for academics to develop scholarly teaching capabilities. Alexandra’s central recommendation is that peer review of teaching programs scaffold meaningful conversations about scholarly teaching. These conversations can transform teaching quality in higher education and result in evidence-based knowledge, skills, and behaviours – or scholarly teaching capabilities.
Alexandra holds several qualifications, including a Masters in Applied Positive Psychology, Graduate Certificate degrees in Educational Research and University Teaching, and bachelor’s degrees in education and fine arts. She has extensive experience in a range of educational settings over 25 years and brings both industry practice and academic research skills and knowledge to her work in higher education teaching and research. Alexandra is also a wellbeing science consultant, with experience working with a range of educational providers across the public and private sectors.
Don’t miss out! Register in advance for this workshop. Numbers are capped.*
https://www.herdsa.org.au/herdsa-webinar-series
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HERDSA Webinar - The ecology of open education and becoming ‘incrementally open’.
27th October 2023 - 12.00–1.00 pm AEST. (11.00AM–12.00 pm AEDT)
Hosted by HERDSA Branch Queensland. Dr Adrian Stagg presents: Engaging with open educational practices (OEP) can seem daunting for staff, who may feel it represents an ‘all or nothing’ proposition for teaching and learning. In this webinar, OEP will be contextualised and nuanced within the institutional ecology, and practical strategies supporting a transition toward openness will be explored. The underpinning rationale and purposes of open education inform these approaches, whilst also providing a measure for evaluation.
The webinar is informed by recent PhD research that took a mixed methods approach to deeply examining three Australian university case sites. Bronfenbrenner’s Ecology of Human Development (1979) acted as the conceptual framework to map influencing forces across the institution and sector that impact on manifestations of OEP by privileging context and the thick description provided by the participants. The resulting Ecology of Open Educational Practice will be of interest to university leadership, OEP advocates, learning designers and technologists, lecturers, librarians, and any other staff either supporting or enacting open education at their institution.
In line with the idea of ‘incrementally open’, the webinar will be practically useful for those interested in taking their first steps into OEP, as well as current practitioners.
Further information: https://www.herdsa.org.au/herdsa-webinar-series
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Ngā hau e whā o Tāwhirimatea - Embedding mātauranga Māori in tertiary education
Thursday November 9, 2023 11.00am AEST or 1pm NZT
Dr Matiu Rātima is a former Senior Lecturer in Mātauranga Māori for teacher education at the University of Canterbury. He has a PhD from the University of Waikato, and his research interests include the development of proficiency in te reo Māori, culturally responsive teaching, and the effectiveness of professional development for the cultural competence of teachers.
In 2022, Matiu led a team of educational researchers, tertiary teachers, and teacher educators to produce a free online guide for tertiary teachers entitled
Ngā Hau e Whā o Tāwhirimātea: Culturally Responsive Teaching and Learning for the Tertiary Sector
This guide has been viewed over 10 thousand times and downloaded close to 4000 times all over the world and is available for you to download at no cost (see the herdsa website link below)
In this interactive session Matiu will facilitate a discussion designed to excavate some of the opportunities and anxieties that have arisen along with the surge in prominence of Māori history and mātauranga as cornerstones of responsible, responsive and Treaty led education in Aotearoa (NZ). For participants to get the best from the session you are asked to read the guide online and come ready to ask a question or two for the zoom hui to 'wānanga' (analyse, discuss, debate). Please email your questions ahead of time to matiu.ratima5@gmail.com
If time allows Matiu will invite impromptu questions towards the end of the session.
Further information: https://www.herdsa.org.au/herdsa-webinar-series
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Workshops for Crafting and Refining a 2024 HERDSA Conference Abstract
Tuesday 14th November, 2023 and Tuesday 30th January, 2023 1-3pm AEDT
The HERDSA Branch Chairs and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) invite you to a series of online workshops focused on the generation of an abstract for the 2024 HERDSA conference. An initial workshop (14th Nov) will focus on starting an abstract. This session will be subdivided into people who have never put together a HERDSA abstract (novices) and people experienced with HERDSA abstracts (advanced) - with consideration of presentation formats and conference themes. The second workshop (30th Jan) will focus on finalising your abstract for submission, with some peer reviewing.
Further information: https://www.herdsa.org.au/herdsa-webinar-series
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Registration Now Open for ACEN 2024 Conference
21-22 October
Join us at the ACEN 2024 Conference on 21 & 22 October 2024 at Sofitel Sydney Wentworth. The Conference theme, "Advancing Quality WIL for Learning and Employability in an Ever-Changing World," promises enriching discussions and innovative ideas. Take advantage of reduced group booking fees to enhance collaboration and networking opportunities.
Ready to learn, grow, and connect? Register today: https://www.acenconference.com.au/
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2024 Inclusive Communication Symposium
March 7 - 8, 2024
The Center for Professional Development and Inclusive Excellence at the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology invites you to join us for the 2024 International Inclusive Communication Symposium in beautiful subtropical Okinawa, Japan.
The annual symposium series focuses on themes around inclusive excellence to create a forum for exchange and pushing boundaries. For the 2024 symposium, we will consider the ways in which organizations and individuals can center equity and inclusion to enable maximally effective communication structures and practices to ultimately foster engagement, creativity, and wellbeing.
We will hear from keynote speakers who have been instrumental in breaking down barriers to fully participatory engagement. They will raise our awareness of what critical voices, data, and representations are erased when information is biased or access to participation is limited. They will aim to motivate us, through their work, to take action in our own roles and environments.
All sessions are conducted in English.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Dr Laura Bonetta (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Professor Catherine D’Ignazio (MIT)
Dr Kana Grace (University College – London)
Professor Natalie Konomi (Kyushu University)
Dr Vic Sivanathan (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
Registration is free and lunch is provided on both days. Space is limited so please register early.
Further information: https://groups.oist.jp/c-hub/inclusive-communication-symposium-2024
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New JANZSSA article: Developing guidelines to support trans, gender diverse and non-binary communities
A new article in the Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Student Services Association (JANZSSA) outlines the development of Edith Cowan University’s trans, gender diverse, and non-binary Support Guidelines.
The open access article by Stevie Lane and Casey Thomas also identifies unique issues for these students, outcomes of ECU's advocacy work, and their ongoing challenges.
Further information: https://janzssa.scholasticahq.com/article/87775-beyond-inclusion-develop...
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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.