HERDSA Notices 23 July 2025

* HERDSA Blog Post: Structural practices for improved fully online higher education
* Looking for support with your SoTL project? Want to gain traction or impact? Drop in and join me for a coffee and to chat SoTL
* Join the (Re)Launch of the HERDSA Academic Development SIG
* The HERDSA Online Engagement in HE SiG presents - A showcase of HERDSA conference presentations on online engagement in HE
* August Assessment Quality SIG Catch-Up: Revamping the SIG & Lightning Round
* "Let me show you a Welcome to Country" - Peer Revue comedy show featuring Deakin Distinguished Professor Mark Rose AM
* Online Event: Pathways to Impact – Leadership Journeys and the Power of SoTL
* The 2025 Australasian Symposium on Programmatic Approaches to Assessment
* Special Issue Call: Learning & Teaching with Social Justice in the University Classroom: Contemporary Approaches & Challenges
* Registration now open for CAULLT 2025 Academic Development Day and Conference
* New articles in Higher Education Research and Development

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HERDSA Blog Post: Structural practices for improved fully online higher education
Christopher Fisher, Ana Tarakci, Leicha Keate, Chris Walsh, 23 July 2025

Christopher Fisher, Ana Tarakci, Leicha Keate, Chris Walsh discuss structural approaches to improving online education, including the use of universal design for learning (UDL).

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Looking for support with your SoTL project? Want to gain traction or impact? Drop in and join me for a coffee and to chat SoTL
Every Tuesday fortnight 12-12:45 pm AEST (QLD time)- Next Drop In's 29/7, 12/8, 26/8, 9/9, 23/9

re you interested in SoTL? Not sure where to start? Do you have an idea but need guidance on progressing it? Then join me for a coffee and to chat SoTL.
Use this time to explore a new idea or to develop a potential SoTL project; discuss a hurdle that’s blocking the progress of your SoTL project, chat about how to disseminate key insights from your SoTL study through a publication, blog, or conference presentation, or maybe explore a different methodological approach for exploring a SoTL phenomenon. Assoc Prof. Alice Brown (#HERDSA Executive and Lead for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - SoTL modules and New Scholars) is organising fortnightly drop-in sessions to help navigate the world of SoTL. Whether you're new to SoTL or looking for ways to publish your research, these sessions are for you. Grab your coffee and drop in for some valuable insights and discussions. See you there!

Further information: Contact Alice Brown (Alice.Brown@unisq.edu.au) - Coffee Chat Zoom link - https://unisq.zoom.us/j/559083948

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Join the (Re)Launch of the HERDSA Academic Development SIG
8th August 2025

Do you work in Academic Development and want to connect with peers?

Join the (Re)Launch of the HERDSA Academic Development SIG
08 August 2025
13:00–14:00 AEST (Sydney time)
Via Zoom (link provided upon registration)

At this (re) Launch, YOU will:

Have your say about our SIG’s focus and mission, meeting frequency and event formats
Meet colleagues from multiple universities who work in similar roles

• NO HERDSA membership required (anyone is welcome to join!)
• Bring your questions, ideas, and energy!
Spread the word and invite your academic-dev friends. Let’s build a supportive community together!

Further information: olga.kozar@mq.edu.au or k.shoecraft@griffith.edu.au

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The HERDSA Online Engagement in HE SiG presents - A showcase of HERDSA conference presentations on online engagement in HE
Thursday 14th August, 2025 - 12–1:30pm AEST (Queensland time)

Join us for a dynamic snapshot of innovative practice and research!

The HERDSA Online Engagement in HE SiG invites you to our Showcase of Presentations on Online Engagement in Higher Education, featuring lightning talks from HERDSA2025 conference presenters. Discover diverse approaches to fostering meaningful online student engagement — from practical teaching strategies and the role of humour, to new insights on access, equity, and the conditions that help online learners thrive. Bring your curiosity and questions for an interactive discussion on how these ideas might spark fresh connections and collaborations in your own context.**Everyone interested in online engagement in higher education is welcome!**

Further information: To register - https://unisq.zoom.us/meeting/register/upcpc-yhqj8oPQOIYWQR-tj0rbPb6eKioQ

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August Assessment Quality SIG Catch-Up: Revamping the SIG & Lightning Round
Friday 15 August 2025, 10:00–11:00am AEST

Date: Friday, 15th August 2025
Time: 10:00 – 11:00 AM AEST
Format: Virtual (Zoom link: https://unsw.zoom.us/j/84783099546)

Agenda:
SIG Revamp Discussion: Vision, objectives, and future direction
Lightning Round from HERDSA 2025: Presentations on innovative assessment practices

'Call for Lightning Round Participants:
EOI Deadline: Friday, 1st August
Presentation: 3-4 slides, 5 minutes
Submit EOI to: d.turnip@unsw.edu.au

Further information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/august-sig-catch-up-revamping-the-sig-light...

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"Let me show you a Welcome to Country" - Peer Revue comedy show featuring Deakin Distinguished Professor Mark Rose AM
Friday 25 July

This month at The Peer Revue, we’re thrilled to welcome back Deakin Distinguished Professor Mark Rose. Mark is Deakin University’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor Indigenous, an expert in Indigenous knowledge, and a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his service to Indigenous education and community health.

Mark has traditional family links to the Gunditjmara nation of Victoria, and brings a wealth of experience from a career spanning school leadership, university research and teaching, and national policy advising (including five ministerial advisory committees and co-chairing the Victorian Implementation Review of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody).

In this special show, Mark will shed light on how Welcome to Country is sometimes misunderstood, and how that can occasionally lead to hilarity.

The Peer Revue is Melbourne’s academic-comedy crossover: we interview a researcher, then a cast of improvisers brings their ideas to life in completely unscripted scenes. It’s clever, surprising, and very funny. Mark is an amazing storyteller and likely to be the funniest person on stage (with apologies to the cast who are also very funny, just not as funny as Mark).

Friday 25 July 7pm
The Motley Bauhaus, Carlton, Melbourne
Tickets: https://www.eventfinda.com.au/2025/the-peer-revue/melbourne/carlton
Use code HERDSA for 50% off. PhD students and uni casuals can email p.dawson@deakin.edu.au for free tickets.

Further information: https://www.eventfinda.com.au/2025/the-peer-revue/melbourne/carlton

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Online Event: Pathways to Impact – Leadership Journeys and the Power of SoTL
Friday 8 August 2025 | 1:00–2:30pm AEST

Hosted by the TEFA Network (Teaching/Education Focused Academic Network), this event explores how the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) fosters impactful academic leadership across disciplines, roles, and career stages.

Speakers:
• Prof Susan Howitt (ANU) on building and sustaining scholarly communities in science education
• Dr Sarah-Jane Gregory (CQU) & A/Prof Sarah Cresswell (Griffith) on the Scholarly Professional Pathways resource
• Facilitated discussion with A/Prof Lynn Gribble and Prof Karena Waller

Join the conversation on LinkedIn via https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14440884/

Further information: Register Here: https://events.humanitix.com/pathways-to-impact-leadership-journeys-and-...

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The 2025 Australasian Symposium on Programmatic Approaches to Assessment
Friday 19 September 2025, 10am to 4pm AEST

Save the Date: 2025 Australasian Symposium on Programmatic Approaches to Assessment
Friday, 19 September 2025, 10:00am – 4:00pm AEST
Hosted by ASCILITE Transforming Assessment & HERDSA Assessment Quality SIG

We are delighted to invite you to the 2025 Australasian Symposium on Programmatic Approaches to Assessment, a full-day online event bringing together educators, academic leaders, and scholars exploring assessment transformation at scale.

Jointly hosted by ASCILITE Transforming Assessment and the HERDSA Assessment Quality Special Interest Groups, this symposium will showcase diverse approaches to redesigning assessment along programmatic, program-level, and program-wide lines.

Expect rich discussion, practical insights, and forward-thinking case studies from across the region, with presentations from institutional, faculty, and school-based initiatives across disciplines.
* Learn how programmatic assessment is being implemented in real contexts
* Engage with colleagues working on curriculum transformation
* Explore ideas that connect policy, pedagogy, and practice

Registration open: Online - full day - free!
Info + reg: http://taw.fi/2025_ASPAA

Further information: http://taw.fi/2025_ASPAA

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Special Issue Call: Learning & Teaching with Social Justice in the University Classroom: Contemporary Approaches & Challenges
Extended 500 word Abstracts due Monday 6th October 2025

This Special Issue for the journal Innovations in Education and Teaching International (IETI) focuses on what goes on in, and spills out of, university classrooms when social justice is an intentional educational goal. The term ‘social justice’ itself might be understood as tactically polyvalent, standing in for a multitude of cognate aims and agendas as it has gained traction in pedagogical discussions in the past decades (North, 2006; Hytten & Bettez, 2011). Because we see social justice in the university classroom as opening an encounter with an ‘Other’; for example, bodies of knowledge, a set of professional standards, teachers, peers, community experts, and industry practitioners among others, both the process and impact of those encounters can often be unsettling. These classrooms are neither ‘tabula rasa’ nor neutral and can be arenas of contested subject matter, tension, and conflict as both educators and students wrestle with differing political power and commitments. Yet these classrooms are also sites of experimentation and investigation where students engage in learning experiences intended to develop self-reflection, expansion, empathy, action,challenge, co-creation, partnership, and community. Set against a background of growing global conservatism, identity politics and unending geo-political turmoil, to do social justice in our university classrooms is to invite ‘trouble’ of all kinds; big and small.

Further information: Read the full Call for Submissions at https://lnkd.in/gwMAEbFz

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Registration now open for CAULLT 2025 Academic Development Day and Conference
23 - 24 October 2025

CAULLT is pleased to announce that registration is now open for both of our upcoming October events:

Academic Development Day – Thursday, 23 October 2025 (face-to-face only) Free for CAULLT member institution staff. Click here to register (https://forms.gle/BDA6HACEiFKLnaRm8).

Conference: Four Provocations for Leading in Learning and Teaching – Friday, 24 October 2025 (online and face-to-face options) Free and open to all (online only). Click here to register (https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/hESybbsgQEOGpXEk-iDaUg).

Both events will be held at the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne Campus, with the conference also available online.

Register now to secure your place and join colleagues from across the sector for these valuable professional development opportunities.

Travel bursaries (https://www.caullt.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2025_application-fo...) (up to $750) are available for the Academic Development Day – applications close 6 pm AEST, Monday 22 September 2025.

For updates and program details, visit our Events and Learning website (https://www.caullt.edu.au/professionallearning/) or contact enquiries@caullt.edu.au.

Further information: secretariat@caullt.edu.au

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New articles in Higher Education Research and Development

A deep dive into taught postgraduates’ participation in work-integrated learning, Denise Jackson, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2525118

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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.

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