* HERDSA Blog Post: Show Your Working: Assessment Needs to See the Process, Not Just the Product
* HERDSA Community: Bringing Your HERDSA 2025 Roundtable to Life: Key Insights from the Preparation Workshop
* Let’s talk assessment at HERDSA 2025
* Storytelling Assessments in an AI Powered World - Assessment Quality SIG webinar
* Guest Editor Proposals Closing Soon - TESOL in Context 2026 Special Issue
* Course Advisory Committee role (paid) for Business academic
* Call for Contributions – Open Library of Secure Online Assessments
* Seeking Participant Volunteers for a UNE Resilience in Higher Education and technology Qualitative Study

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HERDSA Blog Post: Show Your Working: Assessment Needs to See the Process, Not Just the Product
James Tsatsaronis, 25 June 2025

James Tsatsaronis explores assessing the process and the product where students solve complex problems in small groups, as a means of ensuring assessments maintain security and validity.

Read more: https://herdsa.org.au/herdsa-connect/show-your-working-assessment-needs-...

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HERDSA Community: Bringing Your HERDSA 2025 Roundtable to Life: Key Insights from the Preparation Workshop
17 June 2025

HERDSA recently hosted a dynamic preparation workshop for presenters of the upcoming HERDSA 2025 conference, attended by approximately 70 participants. The session focused on how to design and deliver engaging, impactful roundtable discussions—a format increasingly valued for its interactive nature and potential to spark meaningful dialogue among peers.

Read more: https://herdsa.org.au/news/bringing-your-herdsa-2025-roundtable-life-key...

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Let’s talk assessment at HERDSA 2025

Date of event or abstract/paper deadline:Thursday 10 July, 1:05–1:35pm AWST / 3:05–3:35pm AEST

Message

Join us for an informal Assessment Quality SIG Catch-up to reconnect, share ideas, and co-create the future of the SIG.
Whether your focus is feedback, integrity, AI, or program-level design, we’re keen to hear your perspectives.
Thursday 10 July, 1:05–1:35pm AWST / 3:05–3:35pm AEST
Meeting Room 2, Level 2 (or join us online!)

Register through the following link to receive the Zoom link: https://forms.office.com/r/cHvj1tkayU

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Storytelling Assessments in an AI Powered World - Assessment Quality SIG webinar
Friday, 18 July 2025, 10:00 - 11:00 am AEST

How do we uphold assessment authenticity and quality in an AI-powered world?

Join A/Prof Carl Sherwood (UQ), Dr Karen Ho (Mount Royal University, Canada), and Dr Pranit Anand (UNSW) for an engaging HERDSA webinar on Storytelling Assessments in an AI-Powered World. Explore how storytelling can be used as a powerful, inclusive strategy to foster disciplinary identity, critical thinking, and engagement, while navigating the challenges of AI integration. With practical STEM-based examples and alignment to the revised Higher Education Standards Framework (HESF), this session will equip educators and designers with actionable ideas to enhance assessment quality.
Friday, 18 July 2025
10:00am – 11:00am AEST
Free online webinar - Register now

Hosted by the HERDSA Assessment Quality Special Interest Group. All welcome.

Further information: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/storytelling-assessments-in-an-ai-powere...

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Guest Editor Proposals Closing Soon - TESOL in Context 2026 Special Issue
1 July 2025

The window for submitting proposals to guest edit the 2026 Special Issue of TESOL in Context is closing soon.

Deadline: 1 July 2025.
Check out the full Call for Proposals via our website: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/tesol/announcement/view/58

Further information: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/tesol/announcement/view/58

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Course Advisory Committee role (paid) for Business academic
EOI due by Friday 18 July

Develop your leadership portfolio as an External Academic Expert for AIPC's Business Course Advisory Committee. AIPC is a leading Institute of Higher Education which was recently reaccredited by TEQSA for the full 7 years with no conditions: we're good at what we do. The Committee is responsible for steering and approving AIPC's new MBA curriculum. AIPC is seeking two LEVC or LEVD Business academics with curriculum expertise for this role. Meetings are held quarterly, online. Remuneration available. Come help shape the future of MBA education. EOI comprises a copy of your current CV.

Further information: EOI due date: 5pm AEST 18 July 2025. EOI to raja.kannusamy[@]aipc.net.au

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Call for Contributions – Open Library of Secure Online Assessments

No online task is ever completely fool-proof, yet thousands of fully-online students still deserve credible, authentic ways to demonstrate learning. Help us crowd-build a public repository of assessments that strengthen identity checks, minimise misconduct and maintain student-centredness.

Contribute in 5 minutes
• Fill in this Google Form (no login): https://forms.gle/nbgeg721e78wfk7x9
• Describe any online task—from a 6-minute viva to a 24-hour scenario exam—plus one line on why it works and its limits.
• Optionally add your name or LinkedIn for acknowledgement.

All entries flow to a view-only spreadsheet you can use immediately: http://bit.ly/40awL2k

We welcome examples from every discipline, class size and technology level—quick fixes and mature designs alike. Pooling practice will give the sector workable short-term options while more robust systems evolve.

Further information: Enquiries: Dr Prue Laidlaw, Charles Sturt University (plaidlaw@csu.edu.au)

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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, including full name in the space agreeing to online consent for the survey, in order to be considered in this study and include 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 casual, contract and ongoing 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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