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* HERDSA Connect Blog: A New Perspective: Librarians' HERDSA 2023 Experience
* HERDSA Webinar - HERDSA Conference Revisited: Presentations from NZ-based participants
* HERDSA Webinar - Student engagement in employability-building activities and the role of personal career resources in securing work
* CRADLE Seminar Series - Developing learners’ feedback literacy in and for the workplace - Dr Christy Noble
* National Students as Partners Roundtable #SaPRT2003
* TEQSA and CRADLE genAI Webinar #5 - Assessment Reform for the Age of Artificial Intelligence
* CFP Education without Boundaries
* CAULLT Conference 2023 - Wicked Problems in Higher Education: provocations for leading in learning and teaching
* New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development
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HERDSA Connect Blog: A New Perspective: Librarians' HERDSA 2023 Experience
Nicole Johnston & Danielle Degiorgio, 1 September, 2023
Nicole Johnston & Danielle Degiorgio are two librarians at Edith Cowan University and offer a librarian's impression of the 2023 HERDSA Conference.
Read More: https://herdsa.org.au/herdsa-connect/new-perspective-librarians-herdsa-2...
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HERDSA Webinar - HERDSA Conference Revisited: Presentations from NZ-based participants
Thursday September 14th - 1-2pm NZT (11am-1pm AEST)
Do you want to hear about the latest higher education research and teaching innovations from Aotearoa New Zealand? We have speakers on topics that include cross-cultural communications, well-being, academic development identity, metacognition and doctoral preparedness, to name just a few. In this webinar, we will have NZ-based presenters from the recent HERDSA Conference re-presenting their work and/ or reflections on the conference in a condensed format. Each speaker will be given a short time to share their work/thoughts, and there will also be time for discussion. This format will provide the audience with a unique opportunity to hear about a wonderful array of topics.
Join us for HERDSA NZ revisited on September 14, 1-2pm NZT (11am - 12.00pm AEST)
We hope HERDSA members and colleagues can join us!
Further information and registration https://www.herdsa.org.au/herdsa-webinar-series
Further information: rob.wass@otago.ac.nz
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HERDSA Webinar- Student engagement in employability-building activities and the role of personal career resources in securing work
Thursday 12th October, 2023 1.00 to 2.00pm AEST
This webinar presents findings from a HERDSA grant which explored higher education student engagement in activities intended to develop employability. It draws on survey and focus group data gathered from recent graduates to consider levels of engagement and the role of personal agency and socio-cultural, structural and institutional factors. Further, it considers how personal career resources, such as social career support networking, cultural capital, career confidence, career insights and professional clarity, can support students in securing graduate-level employment. The researchers will reflect on the findings and opportunities for the sector to better support students in realising their career goals.
Further information: https://www.herdsa.org.au/herdsa-webinar-series
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CRADLE Seminar Series - Developing learners’ feedback literacy in and for the workplace - Dr Christy Noble
12 September 2023, 2-3.30pm
This seminar is presented by visitng academic Dr Christy Noble who is the Clinical Learning and Assessment Lead in the Academy for Medical Education in the Medical School at The University of Queensland. Her research interests include workplace learning, feedback literacy and assessment literacy.
The value of purposefully developing learners’ feedback literacy to enhance feedback processes is well recognised. As a result, much research has been directed towards conceptual advancement and improving students’ feedback literacy in higher education. Yet, learners in workplaces, such as healthcare, remain dissatisfied with their feedback experiences. Developing learners’ feedback literacy in and for workplace settings holds promise but remains under-explored. To address this gap, we need to understand the contexts where feedback occurs as well as learners’ perspectives, experiences and understanding of feedback and being feedback literate in the workplace. This in turn can inform strategies for developing feedback literacy of learners in the workplace.
Using design-based research (DBR) methods in two studies, we investigated how healthcare students (Study 1) and junior doctors (Study 2) typically engage in feedback and potential opportunities to enhance their feedback engagement. As part of our DBR studies, we also implemented and evaluated several feedback literacy programs for health care students and junior doctors.
In this session, participants will be challenged to consider the relationship between learners’ feedback agency and feedback opportunities in workplace contexts. The nature of this relationship might be an important way to advance the conceptualisation and the development of feedback literacy. While feedback literacy can be supported through targeted education, our findings raise questions for understanding how workplace environments afford and constrain learner feedback engagement. We also challenge the extent to which contextual feedback know-how can be ‘developed’ purposefully outside of everyday work.
This session will be held at Deakin Downtown, Level 12, Tower 2, 727 Collins Street, Docklands and online.
Further information: https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdeakin...
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National Students as Partners Roundtable #SaPRT2003
27-28 September 2023
Students as Partners (SaP) Roundtable 2023 (#SaPRT2023) is approaching soon on September 27 and 28 at Parkville campus, University of Melbourne. Hosted by Arts Teaching Innovation (ATI), the theme of this year’s 2 day-long #SaPRT2023 is Respect, Reciprocity and Responsibility - Three Rs in Partnership*
We have received a wide range of stimulating and inspiring abstracts from SaP practitioners across the globe for #SaPRT2023. Professor Alison Cook-Sather, a leading and well respected academic in this field, has kindly agreed to deliver a keynote virtually from the US.
Registration for the event is open now. Please register using the following link or QR code ASAP.
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/national-students-as-partners-roundtable...
‘Dean for a Day’ Competition
We are also encouraging all students across Australian Universities to submit a response to our ‘Dean for a Day’ Competition for the chance to win the attractive prizes. The prompt for the competition is
If you were the Dean of your faculty, how would you enhance the student voice?
Please encourage your student partners to Think Big and Reflect on the positive changes that they wish to see in the Teaching and Learning aspects in their university.
How to enter:
• Create a creative submission: All responses are welcome – any language, any medium – a poem, a report or an essay, a digital painting or any form of visual art, a comic, a podcast or video.
• Email your submission at nira.rahman@unimelb.edu.au. For larger audio/video file use WeTransfer to email to the above address by September 23, 2023. You can also upload your video to YouTube or Vimeo, and send the link to the above address.
Shortlisted submissions will be on the display during the 2 day-long Students as Partners (SaP) Roundtable 2023. The winners will be announced and awarded at the Closing ceremony of the event by Prof, Jamie Evans, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) of the University of Melbourne.
All the presentations and winning submissions of the ‘Dean for a Day’ competition will be included in the Digital Publication ‘SaP Talks’ after the event.
*Cook-Sather, Bovill, & Felten, 2014.
Further information: https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/teaching-and-learning/arts-teaching-innovati...
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TEQSA and CRADLE genAI Webinar #5 - Assessment Reform for the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Thursday 28 September 2023 3.00pm- 4.00pm
TEQSA in association with CRADLE presents the fifth webinar in the "Implications of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Higher Education” series.
This series of webinars addresses what is known at present about Generative Artificial intelligence (genAI), implications for learning, teaching and assessment and how such technologies might transform higher education into the future.
Student use of generative AI (genAI), particularly ChatGPT, is becoming increasingly commonplace. The sector must therefore rethink assessment design to ensure students’ work is appropriately represented as their own, but also consider how assessment can prepare students for a world where genAI is ubiquitous.
In mid-August, TEQSA sponsored the Assessment Experts Forum: Rethinking assessment in the age of artificial intelligence. The two-day forum brought together 18 Australian experts, led by Associate Professor Jason Lodge. The purpose was to develop an initial draft of guiding principles to orient the sector towards productive ways of rethinking assessment. The discussion built on participants’ extensive expertise in assessment and educational technology and was followed by consultation with a wider group of experts across Australia.
The draft – two guiding principles and a set of five propositions for assessment in a time of AI – will be presented in the webinar, as part of a continuing conversation.
The panel will present the draft principles, followed by 30 minutes of questions and answers:
Dr Helen Gniel is the Director of TEQSA’s Higher Education Integrity Unit. The unit was established in January 2021 to identify threats to the integrity of Australia’s higher education system, as well as avenues to support the sector to mitigate these risks.
Associate Professor Jason Lodge is Director of the Learning, Instruction, and Technology Lab in the School of Education and is a Deputy Associate Dean (Academic) in the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at The University of Queensland. Jason’s research with his lab focuses on self-regulated learning with technology, primarily in higher education.
Associate Professor Sarah Howard is an Associate Professor of Digital Technologies in Education, at the University of Wollongong in Australia. Her research looks at technology-related change in education, specifically teacher practice and integration in learning.
Professor Phillip (Phill) Dawson a Professor and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) at Deakin University, where he researches assessment, feedback and cheating. His most recent books include Defending Assessment Security in a Digital World (Routledge) and the co-edited volume Re-imagining University Assessment in a Digital World (Springer).
Professor Margaret Bearman is a Professor of Research with CRADLE. She holds a first-class honours degree in computer science and a PhD in medical education. Margaret’s interests are broad ranging and include assessment in university education, feedback in healthcare contexts, simulation and learning in a digital world.
Further information: https://asessment_reform_for_the_age_of_artificial_intelligence.eventbri...
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CFP Education without Boundaries
7 October 2023
Te Puna Aurei LearnFest is a free online symposium organised by Te Puna Ako - University of Waikato, this year in partnership with the University of Newcastle.
This year's theme is Education Without Boundaries. The event will be held online 27 and 28 November.
Expressions of interest for talks, panels and workshop sessions on the theme, or any aspect of tertiary education, are now invited, and close Friday 7 October.
Further information: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=w10PIlKU5UibT4iN9C96...
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CAULLT Conference 2023 - Wicked Problems in Higher Education: provocations for leading in learning and teaching
27th October 2023
The CAULLT (Council of Australasian Leaders in Learning and Teaching) Conference 2023 will be held on 27 October online and in person at conference hubs around Australasia. The conference is designed around a series of provocations to facilitate discussion and shared insights into the ‘wicked problems’ that face current emerging and aspiring learning and teaching leaders. Registration is open and free to all CAULLT member institutions.
Further information: https://www.caullt.edu.au/2023-caullt-learning-program/caullt-2023-learn...
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New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development
Publish and still perish? Learning to make the ‘right’ publishing choices in the Ghanaian academy, Samuel Tamti Chatio, Paulina Tindana, Patricia Akweongo & David Mills, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2246396
Experiences and challenges related to wellbeing faced by Australian higher degree research candidates prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic, Caroline A. Smith, Kylie Barr, Ghufran Alhassani, Emma Taylor & Janet Conti, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2246411
Challenging structural racism through the development of equity-driven core Māori hauora ā iwi/public health competencies for university hauora ā iwi/public health teaching, Francis Kewene, Kate Morgaine, Sarah Colhoun & Sue Crengle, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2246404
Teacher professional learning and development in the context of educational innovations in higher education: a typology of practices, Tim M. Stevens, Indira N.Z. Day, Perry J. den Brok, Frans J. Prins, Hanneke J.H.E. Assen, Marlies ter Beek, Gunter Bombaerts, Remco Coppoolse, Petra H.M. Cremers, Rik Engbers, Madeleine Hulsen, Rachelle J.A. Kamp, Jur J. Koksma, Kariene Mittendorff, Jan Riezebos, Roeland M. van der Rijst, Margje W. J. van de Wiel & Jan D. Vermunt, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2246412
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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.