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* HERDSA Blog Post: Mission Possible: Engaging Students at scale – A Case Study
* Join us for the upcoming HERDSA Webinar: The 5C Formula for Impactful SoTL Projects
* Registrations now open for the 2025 Scholarship Learning and Teaching (SoLT) conference
* Seeking Participant Volunteers for a UNE Resilience in Higher Education and technology Qualitative Study
* The International Journal for Students as Partners seeks additional editorial board members (from outside Australia)
* New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development
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HERDSA Blog Post: Mission Possible: Engaging Students at scale – A Case Study
Beatrice Chu, 23 April 2025
Beatrice Chu sheds light on the strategies she used to engage an 800+ student cohort with strategies such as gamification and AI chatbots.
Read more: https://herdsa.org.au/herdsa-connect/mission-possible-engaging-students-...
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Join us for the upcoming HERDSA Webinar: The 5C Formula for Impactful SoTL Projects
Wednesday April 30th, 12:00-1:00pm AEST (QLD time)
Whatever your journey has been so far, you might be interested in conducting your own SoTL project, but unsure where to start. While there's no one-size-fits-all formula, a helpful way to begin is by considering the 5C Approach. (Concern, Common Ground, Crack in Knowledge (Complication), Contribution, Course of Action). The 5C’s provide a structured yet flexible pathway to guide you through identifying and developing a project that aligns with your interests and goals.
Join Associate Professor Alice Brown (UniSQ, HERDSA Executive and SoTL Portfolio Lead) and Dr. Olga Kozar (Macquarie University) for a refreshed, popular workshop, where you’ll consider the 5C’s approach for selecting a promising research topic.
This framework will help you to conceptualise and develop a strong Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project. Bring your ideas, and let’s brainstorm together how YOU can select the most impactful research topic.
Further information: Click here to register - https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ba01618a-6522-4f10-a3c6-5b85254...@c4d10133-8d1d-45b3-8a8c-d
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Registrations now open for the 2025 Scholarship Learning and Teaching (SoLT) conference
03/07/2025
TAFE Queensland Higher Education will be hosting the 2025 Scholarship Learning and Teaching (SoLT) conference on July 3, 2025 at the South Bank campus. The conference theme is Empowering Education through Confidence and Change and aims to showcase Scholarship of Teaching and Learning research from tertiary education institutions across Australia.
The conference program includes an array of workshops and presentations related to the scholarship of teaching and learning. The day will conclude with a poster session and a closing keynote presentation by Dr. Alice Brown, University of Southern Queensland.
The full conference program will be released closer to the event. However, all attendees will have the opportunity to create a personalised schedule based on their preferred workshops and concurrent sessions.
Early Bird Registrations close 16 May 2025, with General Registrations closing 9 June 2025. The ticket fees are included below.
Early Bird Fee - $95
General Fee - $110
To learn more about the 2025 SoLT conference, including how to register, please visit our website: https://tafeqld.edu.au/solt
Further information: https://tafeqld.edu.au/solt
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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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The International Journal for Students as Partners seeks additional editorial board members (from outside Australia)
The International Journal for Students as Partners (IJSaP) wishes to appoint two new editorial board (EB) co-editing teams consisting of a staff/faculty member¹ and a student² from:
a) Canada (excluding McMaster University where we already have a team based)
b) A country not currently represented on the EB (i.e. excluding Australia, Canada, China, Pakistan, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States). We would particularly welcome applications from non-English speaking countries and/or parts of the world in which student-staff partnerships are an emerging development, but applications from other countries not currently represented on the EB are also welcome.
They will join the existing EB, which consists of eight student-staff teams plus a senior editor, an editorial manager, and a communications officer.
The journal: IJSaP is co-edited by students and staff/faculty and is run on partnership principles. The ethos of student-faculty/staff partnership is something that is a distinctive feature of the journal. IJSaP explores established and emerging perspectives, practices, and policies regarding how students and staff are working in partnership to enhance learning and teaching in higher education. The journal was founded in 2016 and the first issue was published in 2017.
IJSaP publishes articles, reflective essays, case studies, opinion pieces and reviews about partnership between students and others in higher education focused on explorations, practices, policies, and analyses of teaching and learning. It is an open access journal published twice a year by McMaster University Press. Further details are available at: https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/ijsap
The positions: We welcome and recognize the diversity of skills and experiences students and staff may bring to the role of co-editors. Team members may be at the same institution or at different institutions but normally based in the same country/region.
Further information: Further details about the journal, the positions, the application criteria, and the application process are available at the IJSaP website. Potential applicants are encouraged to contact Prof Mick Healey, Senior Editor (mhealey@glos.ac.uk), or Ian Steinberg, Editorial Manager (ijsap@mcmaster.ca), for an informal discussion about the role. Please address any queries about the application process to the Editorial Manager (ijsap@mcmaster.ca).
Application deadline: 12:00 Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) Friday, June 13, 2025.
Please pass these details on to any colleagues outside Australia, China, Pakistan, South Africa, United Kingdom, and United States, whom you think may be interested.
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New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development
Exploring the purposes and uses of generative artificial intelligence tools in academic writing for multicultural students, Ajrina Hysaj, Bonnie Amelia Dean & Mark Freeman, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2488862
Centring Indigenous content and redesigning the tertiary curriculum, Henry Boer & Gary Fry, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2486184
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