* HERDSA SoTL SIG - January meeting - This Friday!
* EOI HERDSA SOTL Consultant
* Higher Education Research & Development: Call for Papers – Special Issue 2025
* Comedy show about the Three Minute Thesis, featuring current Asia-Pacific 3MT champion Agnes Mukurumbira
* New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development

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HERDSA SoTL SIG - January meeting - This Friday!
Friday, 19 January 2024, 12.00-1.00 pm AEDT

Our next SoTL SIG is scheduled for this Friday, 19 January 2024, 12.00–1.00 pm AEDT.

This week's SIG will help you take the next step on your SoTL journey and brainstorm areas of interest. The information we generate in this session will help us connect you with other like-minded members. We will also present the analysis from November's meeting and begin working on the results as a SIG. It's a collaborative effort, so we look forward to seeing you all there to join the conversation.

Register for this meeting here: https://unisq.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpduuqqT8oE9eNBtwMqrc7Bvim1eNqfKsj

Don't forget to add it to your calendar!

Please note that the SoTL SIG meetings are scheduled for the third Friday of each month from 12.00–1.00 pm (Sydney time).

Join us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14343410/

For more information, contact herdsa.sotl.sig@gmail.com

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EOI HERDSA SOTL Consultant
EOI closes Monday January 22nd, 2024

Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) overarching purpose is to bring together and support those people who are engaged in teaching in higher education, in the study of learning, teaching and policy in higher education, and in the continuous improvement of higher education.

The HERDSA SOTL Modules form a unique resource and contribution to HERDSA members, offering a series of modules that introduces users to the nature, purpose, and process of scholarship of teaching and learning, and act as a capacity building resource to assist in developing and refining SOTL knowledge and skills. In 2024 the HERDSA Modules will undergo a process of review and redevelopment to ensure currency and reflect contemporary learning approaches.

We are currently seeking the support of a specialised Consultant to lead this process, which includes:
i) A review and evaluation of current SOTL Modules;
ii) Specific recommendations for redevelopment of SOTL Modules;
iii) Implementation of recommendations through SOTL Module redevelopment, including integration into an LMS platform;
Specifically, this role will require knowledge and expertise in:
▪ Quality standards such as Technology Enhanced Learning Accreditation Standards (TELAS) or the Quality Matters framework.
▪ Online student engagement strategies and Online Learning Design
▪ SOTL discipline knowledge
▪ Development of interactive learning resources, scaffolding, User Experience Design (UX) and constructive alignment.

We anticipate that this work will move through two stages:
Stage 1: Review, evaluation, and recommendations (report) (est. completion March, 2024)
Stage 2: Module redevelopment (est. completion August, 24)
This work can be managed remotely.

An hourly rate of between $70 – 80 will be allocated for this work, depending on qualifications and experience.

Further information: To express your interest in this role please forward a brief email and CV to Alice Brown at: Alice.Brown@usq.edu.au

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Higher Education Research & Development: Call for Papers – Special Issue 2025
Full article deadline – 30 April 2024

Submissions are invited for HERD's 2025 Special Issue, "Reimagining Higher Education Learning Spaces: Assembling Theory, Methods, and Practice", led by Stephen Marshall, Samuel Elkington and Jill Dickinson.

Share your theoretical, pedagogical, and methodological insights that examine new and emerging learning and teaching spatial practice ecologies in HE.

Pushing beyond normative conceptualisations and totalising critiques of learning spaces in HE, this Special Issue invites international contributions that seek to reimagine spaces and places for learning according to the level of complexity, nuance, and depth that they exhibit and the neoteric topologies of connection, social meaning, and practice that they promote. Contributions might represent, connect, and assemble new theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches, and/or practical interventions to explore any, or a combination, of the following illustrative spatial themes: Connected space / Embodied space / Relational space / (Socio)Material space

Papers should be submitted in their final polished and complete state for review by 30th April 2024 via Submission Portal.

Further information: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalNewsAndOffers?journalCode=cher20

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Comedy show about the Three Minute Thesis, featuring current Asia-Pacific 3MT champion Agnes Mukurumbira
Friday January 19th

This Friday, come hang out with a bunch of comedians and higher ed folk as we laugh about the Three Minute Thesis on 'The Peer Revue'!

The Peer Revue is a comedy show in Melbourne where improvisers talk with researchers. This Friday we have a special guest, Agnes Mukurumbira, who is the current Asia Pacific Three Minute Thesis champion. She'll talk with some of Melbourne's finest improv comedians about her 3MT experience, and give her famous 3MT talk 'Investigation of essential oils as antimicrobials for application in food packaging'. Us improvisers will use what she says to fuel improv comedy.

The Peer Revue draws a decent crowd including PhD students and higher education scholars (and usually a few HERDSA members). It's a fun night out, and we often grab a drink downstairs at Theory bar afterwards. Research students and uni casuals can email me, the show's producer (and cast member) Phill Dawson p.dawson@deakin.edu.au for free tickets.

When: Friday January 19th 8:15pm
Where: Improv Conspiracy Theatre in Melbourne (near Parliament Station)
Tickets: https://improvconspiracy.com/shows/the-peer-revue

Further information: https://improvconspiracy.com/shows/the-peer-revue

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New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development

Academics’ perceived space in negotiating university-industry collaboration: a case study in two universities in Mainland China, Lan Shi & Manhong Lai, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2293220

Academic staff members’ engagement in accessible higher education for students with disabilities, Naomi Schreuer, Carmit-Noa Shpigelman, Sagit Mor, Miriam Sarid, Arlene S. Kanter & Dalia Sachs, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2292652

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