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* HERDSA Blog Post: Angela Brew: Fighting for a revolution in student learning
* Join the HERDSA Online Engagement SiG for another great event: Critically reflecting ‘on’ and ‘of’ online engagement in HE
* HERDSA SoTL SIG - May 2025 meeting - Next Friday! --- Expanding Your Reach: Writing for Impact in Teaching and Learning
* Ten years forward, ten years back webinar
* PaTHES Webinar: Traditions of Higher Education in Islam: Reconciling spirituality with critical/reflective learning
* Online First articles for the TESOL in Context 2025 Special Issue on Initial Teacher Education and EAL/D are now live!
* Call for Reviewers 2025 - TESOL in Context
* Seeking experienced online/hybrid HE teachers to support a HERDSA project on engagement strategies valued by students
* New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development
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HERDSA Blog Post: Angela Brew: Fighting for a revolution in student learning
Peter Kandlbinder, Lilia Mantai, & Denise Wood, 7 May 2025
Peter Kandlbinder, Lilia Mantai, & Denise Wood describe how Angela Brew's visionary leadership and passion for undergraduate research continues to inspire the academic community.
Read more: https://herdsa.org.au/herdsa-connect/angela-brew-fighting-revolution-stu...
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Join the HERDSA Online Engagement SiG for another great event: Critically reflecting ‘on’ and ‘of’ online engagement in HE
May 15, 2025 12:00-1:00pm (AEST - QLD time)
Online student engagement in higher education continues to be an important measure of student learning and quality teaching in higher education, with the goal of these efforts to increase student engagement, retention, satisfaction and success. Yet, interpretations and definitions of online engagement are still elusive, continue to be debated, and change with the times, influenced by major changes in technology, world events such as CoVID, and even changes in pedagogy and teaching within the online environment. Inspired by the work and research of Redmond et al (2022), the HERDSA online engagement in HE SiG invites you to join us for a collaborative opportunity to explore, add to, refine or potentially consider a more inclusive definition of online engagement HE. Together, we will move through a reflection process that allows debate, deliberation and reframing existing interpretations.
Facilitators – Professor Petrea Redmond & Associate Professor Alice Brown (Online Engagement Specialists – School of Education – University of Southern Queensland)
Further information: Further information: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/b9df67a6-693e-4157-ab11-0a2051b...@9aee26d8-97c2-4fad-8900-96735
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HERDSA SoTL SIG - May 2025 meeting - Next Friday! --- Expanding Your Reach: Writing for Impact in Teaching and Learning
Friday, 16 May 2025, 12.00–1.00 pm AEST (NSW/VIC time)
This month, we welcome Professor Kelly Matthews back to deliver a second workshop on her co-authored book "Writing about Teaching and Learning in Higher Education."
Topic: Expanding Your Reach: Writing for Impact in Teaching and Learning
Presenter: Professor Kelly Matthews (UQ)
Date: Friday, 16th May 2025
Time: 12.00–1.00 pm AEST (NSW/VIC/QLD time)
How can teaching and learning scholars broaden their publishing possibilities and reach new audiences?
Join Professor Kelly Matthews for a 50-minute deep dive into the multiple writing genres available for sharing scholarly insights in higher education. This session explores how to expand the impact of your work by engaging with different forms of writing, moving beyond traditional journal articles to reach educators, policymakers, and broader academic communities.
Drawing from the open-access book Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, this session offers practical strategies to help scholars contribute meaningfully to conversations that shape the future of education. You can access the book here: https://www.centerforengagedlearning.org/books/writing-about-learning/
If you missed the first workshop that Kelly delivered on “Getting Published: Set-up and Planning” last year, you can now watch it on our new YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@HERDSASoTLSIG (yes, we did it - subscribe!). This session will prompt you to think about why we are writing, who we are writing for, and how we can initiate a conversation within the SoTL community and establish our individual identities. It also flows naturally into our (second) workshop with Kelly this month!
Professor Kelly Matthew is from the University of Queensland. Kelly has co-authored the open-access, well-received textbook on writing about teaching and learning with Professor Mick Healey (UK) and Professor Alison Cook-Sather (USA) that is published by Elon University Center for Engaged Learning (USA).
Link to register for the session: https://unisq.zoom.us/meeting/register/rT5UexjmRfCDHWnCrZb1zQ#/registration
Join us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14343410/
Further information: Please feel free to contact the HERDSA SoTL SIG at herdsa.sotl.sig@gmail.com
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Ten years forward, ten years back webinar
16 May 2025
The landmark Academic Workforce 2025 Project report (https://ltr.edu.au/vufind/Record/365449) was commissioned ten years ago by the Office for Learning and Teaching (OLT). This influential work contained twelve propositions about how the sector might look in 2025.
Join Prof. Barbie Panther as she revisits these propositions with some of the original authors.
For details and to register, please visit the dedicated webpage (https://tinyurl.com/bdeuyx7f).
Further information: secretariat@caullt.edu.au
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PaTHES Webinar: Traditions of Higher Education in Islam: Reconciling spirituality with critical/reflective learning
Tuesday 20 May (register by 19 May)
There is a growing number of international students and mostly displaced academics with diverse Islamic cultural backgrounds in western secular universities. There is also an increasing number of western academics supervising doctoral students whose projects explore higher education (HE) within contemporary Muslim majority/minority contexts. This seminar, by Dr Abdullah Sahin from Warwick University, will discuss the philosophical, theological and pedagogical values informing the traditions of higher learning within the Muslim intellectual legacy. Challenges facing HE reform in Muslim-majority societies and the uneasy presence of traditional Islamic HE institutions within western Muslim diaspora will also be examined.
Further information: Register here: https://auckland.zoom.us/meeting/register/4FYljX4kR7aHhyKTsrcZtw#/regist...
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Online First articles for the TESOL in Context 2025 Special Issue on Initial Teacher Education and EAL/D are now live!
Read and download the latest research for free via the journal website: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/tesol/issue/view/229
TESOL in Context is an internationally refereed, diamond open access, Scopus-indexed scholarly journal. It is the official publication of Australian Council of TESOL Associations (ACTA) that is currently among the very few peer-reviewed journals in Australia dedicated to TESOL and EAL/D fields.
Further information: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/tesol/issue/view/229
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Call for Reviewers 2025 - TESOL in Context
As part of our ongoing commitment to excellence in the field of TESOL/EAL, we would like to invite dedicated practitioners/scholars in Australia and from around the world to join TESOL in Context as peer reviewers!
For the selection criteria and the EOI form, please check the latest announcement on our journal's website: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/tesol/announcement/view/57
Further information: https://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/tesol/announcement/view/57
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Seeking experienced online/hybrid HE teachers to support a HERDSA project on engagement strategies valued by students
Please respond ASAP
To all experienced online teachers and engagement experts in Higher Education, we are currently seeking your assistance in a research project (HERDSA grant 2024) to investigate students' perceptions of their most valued course (subject) specific online engagement strategies. These are strategies that teachers include as part of their online learning environment to support student learning (such as discussion forums; social forums and introductions; Padlets, eBooks, online tutorials, team activities, badges, personal communications, weekly announcements and nudges, collaborative/peer activities and opportunities to learn with others, short recordings, and digital media and videos, stop and think activities, online whiteboard, guest speakers, providing explicit expectations about learning and ways of working, …..and many more).
If you are a strong online teacher or know of an uber teacher who strongly engages students online, then please contact us. The research team is eager to hear from your students about their experiences of online engagement in your course. We are interested in learning more about the strategies your students found useful in helping them feel part of the subject.
Further information: Please email Alice Brown - for further information - Alice.Brown@unisq.edu.au
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New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development
A new theoretical framework to evidence scholarly activity that includes the creative arts: reconceptualising Boyer scholarship, K. Ardzejewska, D. G. Eden & A. G. Shannon, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2492131
Supporting neurodiversity in higher degree research supervision: a relational approach, Anna Szorenyi & Cambrey Payne, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2493248
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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.