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* HERDSA Blog Post: Engagement Over Attendance: Meeting the Needs of Modern Learners
* HERDSA WEBINAR: Curriculum, Assessment & AI: Real World Applications. Join us for this hybrid event!
* CRADLE Seminar Series: A house of cards? Equity-group students’ experiences of navigating university
* OAPA seminar - What's Your Problem? Writing Effective Research Questions for Quality Publications
* Australia and New Zealand History of Education Association Conference 2024: Truth Telling in Histories of Education
* Request for Qualitative Research Participants
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HERDSA Blog Post: Engagement Over Attendance: Meeting the Needs of Modern Learners
Tegan Bradley, 26 November 2024
Tegan Bradley discusses strategies we can use to enhance student engagement, while being mindful of the needs of the modern learner.
Read more: https://herdsa.org.au/herdsa-connect/engagement-over-attendance-meeting-...
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HERDSA WEBINAR: Curriculum, Assessment & AI: Real World Applications. Join us for this hybrid event!
Thursday 28th November 2024 2.00- 6.00pm
This exciting event will take place at ACAP in Sydney CBD and online, bringing together leading academic educators to explore the transformative role of AI in education and innovation in assessment and curriculum.
The conference features a stellar lineup of presentations, including our keynote address by Prof. Danny Liu from the University of Sydney. He will delve into the crucial topic of ‘Practically Responding to Generative AI and Assessment: What Are the Five Things We Need to Get Right?’, providing invaluable insights for educators navigating this evolving landscape.
With sessions covering groundbreaking research on online assessments, storytelling in higher education, and managing academic integrity in the age of AI, attendees will leave inspired and equipped with practical strategies to enhance their teaching practices. Network with thought leaders and peers fostering connections that will extend beyond the event. For those attending on campus, afternoon tea will be provided.
Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/2024-herdsa-conference-curriculum-assessmen...
Further information: gina.saliba@acap.edu.au
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CRADLE Seminar Series: A house of cards? Equity-group students’ experiences of navigating university
5th December
Improving access, participation and success of equity-group students in Australian higher education is in the national spotlight, taking a central position in the Australian Universities Accord (O’Kane et al., 2023, 2024). In this context, we conducted a qualitative longitudinal study to investigate undergraduate equity-group students’ day-to-day experiences in negotiating their life, work and learning at Deakin University. Through this investigation, we sought to elicit fine-grained narrative data from students which might inform the design and implementation of supports for equity-group students. Thirty-five students took part in a series of four interviews from June 2023 to July 2024, resulting in a total of 123 in-depth interviews. Despite having some similar characteristics and circumstances, such as juggling their studies with paid work and parenting, and experiencing some similar challenges, the students in this study were a heterogeneous group; there was diversity in terms of study mode and type of at attendance; responsibilities such as parenting/caring and work; practical challenges; and positive/negative learning experiences.
In this seminar, we will offer an overview of findings from the project with a focus on moments of precarity, success, and failure, and implications of this work for research, policy and practice in higher education.
Join us for this compelling and this topical presentation online.
Register here: https://CRADLE_Seminar_Series_5_December_2024.eventbrite.com.au
Further information: cradle@deakin.edu.au
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OAPA seminar - What's Your Problem? Writing Effective Research Questions for Quality Publications
Monday 9 December
The Open Access Publishing Association was founded in 2023 to challenge the current model of publishing. It also hosts seminars and courses to supports quality peer reviewed open access publications.
The next seminar is titled "What’s Your Problem? Writing Effective Research Questions for Quality Publications"
Date: Monday 9 December 2024
Start time: 08:00 UK (GMT)/ 09:00 CET/ 19:00 AEDT / 16:00 AWST / 16:00 Singapore
Mode: online via Zoom
Format: Presentation and workshop activity
Cost: free for OAPA members, $45 for an individual session
The Curriculum and Assessment Design Editorial Team from the Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice (JUTLP) will offer an overview of considerations and guidance for developing research questions for quality publications. Following the presentation, participants will then engage in workshop activities to support their research practice.
Register here: https://events.humanitix.com/whats-your-problem
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Australia and New Zealand History of Education Association Conference 2024: Truth Telling in Histories of Education
11-13 December
In a tribute to the late, esteemed Yolŋu elder, Dr Yunupiŋu, anthropologist and geographer Marcia Langton recalled his observation that ‘Like a fire, the truth burns ... That’s how we know it is the truth.’ (Langton, ‘Energy, Power, Strength: Dr Yunupingu’, The Monthly, May 2023). In this penetrating analogy, Dr Yunupiŋu conveyed the feeling provoked by reinterpretation, by considering evidence and testimony that is uncomfortable, painful, or once judged better left unwritten. We are living through a such a moment in the history of education.
Taking Dr Yunupiŋu’s observation as a prompt, join the 2024 ANZHES Conference as historians of education, those interested in contested histories, historians of place, heritage and collections reflect and explore the friction sparked by truth telling reinterpretation of the past.
Further information: https://melbourne-cshe.unimelb.edu.au/events/2024-anzhes-conference
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Request for Qualitative Research Participants
I would like to invite you to participate in this UNE PhD qualitative study (Ethics approval: HE24-129, valid 10/7/2026) investigating how academics maintain resilience and wellbeing using workplace technology. Your participation will involve completing a short pre-screening online survey, ensuring the target group, academics employed in a higher education institution, who use workplace technology for work completion are selected (public or private university). An invitation to participate in an online video interview and submission of a short reflection will be sent to participants who meet pre-screening criteria.
Further information: If you would like to find out more about the study and participate contact: Marie (Bernie) Fisher. email:mfisher@myune.edu.au
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