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* HERDSA Blog Post: From Facts to Fun: How Gamified Learning Transformed a Nutrition Course
* New HERSDA SoTL Modules Coming Soon – Module 3 – Foundations of producing SoTL
* CRADLE celebrates 10 years! "The road behind and the journey ahead" - 10th anniversary seminar
* CRADLE webinar series: New Directions in AI Research and Practice - 'Secure assessment tasks in a time of GenAI'
* New articles in Higher Education Research and Development
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HERDSA Blog Post: From Facts to Fun: How Gamified Learning Transformed a Nutrition Course
Jing Ye and Julia Low, 1 October 2025
Jing and Julia explore how we can use elements of game to assist students meaningfully engaging in their learning, providing actionable strategies.
Read more: https://herdsa.org.au/herdsa-connect/facts-fun-how-gamified-learning-tra...
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New HERSDA SoTL Modules Coming Soon – Module 3 – Foundations of producing SoTL
Anticipated release date - Mid November
In Module 3 of the newly developed HERDSA SoTL Modules we invite you to think about developing and moving through your own SoTL project. Whether you're continuing from previous modules or just beginning your SoTL journey, this module will guide you through the foundational stages of project development using the 5C Approach—Concern, Common Ground, Crack in Knowledge, Contribution, and Course of Action. You’ll explore how to identify a meaningful teaching or learning issue, connect it to existing research, and begin shaping a project that contributes to both your practice and the broader educational community.
A good project starts with a clear focus—and that’s where the 5C framework can help. This module will guide you through each step, helping you define a project that is practical, relevant, and manageable. You’ll also hear from educators who have used the 5C’s framework to inform and strategically approach their research.
By the end, you’ll have a structured plan to start your SoTL journey with confidence. While you are waiting for the launch of the updated HERDSA SoTL Modules you may be interested in this recent webinar focused on the 5C’s -https://herdsa.org.au/news/5c-framework-your-blueprint-sotl-research
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CRADLE celebrates 10 years! "The road behind and the journey ahead" - 10th anniversary seminar
Wednesday 15 October - 2.00 pm - 3.30 pm (AEDT)
Deakin University's Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) celebrates its 10th birthday in 2025. From its modest beginnings with Foundation Director Professor David Boud, CRADLE has grown in reputation and influence as its members have pursued a research agenda encompassing assessing for learning, learning in a digital world, and assessing through and for work.
What is the CRADLE model and how does it seek to influence teaching, learning and assessment in higher education? In what areas is it making a difference?
Join us at Deakin Downtown or online to celebrate 10 years of CRADLE, as the current team - co-directors Prof. David Boud and Prof. Phillip Dawson, Prof. Margaret Bearman, A/Prof. Joanna Tai, Dr Juuso Nieminen, Dr Thomas Corbin, and Dr Jack Walton - reflects on our successes and what still lies ahead.
Further information: https://cradle-10th-anniversary-celebration.eventbrite.com.au/?aff=herdsa
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CRADLE webinar series: New Directions in AI Research and Practice - 'Secure assessment tasks in a time of GenAI'
Thursday 23 October - 2.00 pm - 3.00 pm (AEDT)
The proliferation of generative AI (GenAI) continues to pose challenges for educators seeking to ensure their assessments remain valid and secure. Bringing together leading assessment and academic integrity scholars and practitioners, this online-only webinar will discuss the urgent question of how to design secure assessment tasks in a time of GenAI.
Program-level approaches play a critical role in securing assessment, but their success seems to depend on what happens at the level of individual tasks. After all, it is difficult to see how course-wide reform can compensate if assignments themselves are vulnerable. The focus of this webinar is therefore on assessment change at the task level, asking: what kinds of assessment tasks work well – and which are no longer fit for purpose – now that students can readily access GenAI?
Facilitated by CRADLE’s Dr Thomas Corbin, this panel will look beyond in-person exams to highlight both emerging strategies and enduring principles for secure assessment in a time of GenAI. The panel will offer practical insights for educators grappling with today’s rapidly changing assessment landscape, and consider future directions for research and practice.
Panellists
• Professor Phillip Dawson, CRADLE, Deakin University
• Professor Cath Ellis, Western Sydney University
• Professor Danny Liu, University of Sydney
• Kane Murdoch, Macquarie University
Join us online for the third seminar in CRADLE's New Directions in AI Research and Practice series.
Further information: https://secure-assessment-tasks-in-a-time-of-genAI.eventbrite.com.au/?af...
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New articles in Higher Education Research and Development
Curricular flexibility towards decentralized energy: considerations of stakeholder needs and energy citizenship in a master’s specialization track for public managers, Nex Bengson & Samantha Timbreza, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2527404
Taiwanese universities at the crossroads: engineering education for sustainability transitions and industrial demands, Linda Gardelle, John Chung-En Liu & Kim Fabri, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2514501
Interdisciplinary collaboration for sustainability among students with different disciplinary backgrounds: a scoping review, Mia Thyrre Sørensen & Maria Hvid Stenalt, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2514502
Medical students’ critical engagement with publications related to strategies addressing health disparities with Indigenous Peoples in Australia: critically iterative and iteratively critical, Hrishita Purohit, Nihal-Indir Lalwani, Georgia Love, Anne-Maree Ma, Lisa Urquhart, Reakeeta Smallwood & Anne Croker, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2525106
The role of agency in social justice education: insights from a practising inclusion in higher education micro-credential, Franziska Trede, Celina McEwen & Beate Mueller, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2548277
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