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* HERDSA Webinar -2023 TATAL Webinar
* Call for nominations to the HERDSA Executive for 2023 - 2025 term
* Academic Development SIG Virtual Cafe Chat
* HERDSA Webinar - Applying A1 to Student Tasks
* Call for nominations for HERDSA Life Memberships
* HERDSA Webinar - Bringing together psychological influences, social and environmental aspects for improved graduate preparation
* Expressions of interest are sought for the HERDSA 2023 Conference Communication Team
* HERDSA Webinar - Sustainability Development Goals and Higher Education
* Higher Education Research & Development, Vol. 42 No. 1 is now available online
* National Symposium: The purposes of Australian Higher education
* Sydney Educational Measurement and Assessment Symposium
* New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development
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HERDSA Webinar -2023 TATAL Webinar
Thursday 2 March, 1pm AEDT
What is Talking about Teaching and Learning (TATAL)? How does it work? What can participants get out of it? This webinar provides an overview of the TATAL initiative. Now in its 15th year, TATAL continues to help teachers, researchers, academic developers, administrators and institutional leaders (as well as others) engage in supportive, collegial discussions about teaching and learning in higher education. Find out more about TATAL in this HERDSA webinar.
Further information: https://www.herdsa.org.au/herdsa-webinar-series
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Call for nominations to the HERDSA Executive for 2023 - 2025 term
3rd March 2023 5.00pm AEST
This is a call for nominations for HERDSA Executive positions for the period July 2023 – July 2025.
The current HERDSA Executive will complete a two-year term at the end of June 2023 and all positions (except the President) are declared vacant.
The Executive consists of a President, President-elect (1-year term), conference convenor and eight elected members. The positions of Vice-President and Treasurer are determined within the Executive. Members of the Executive become members of one of the four portfolios: Secretariat, Publications, Professional Development and Networks. The portfolios are supported by a number of HERDSA Officers.
A call for nominations for the President-Elect position was made in March 2022 and Prof Kogi Naidoo was re-elected to this position for the July 2023 to July 2025 term.
In accordance with the Constitution the term of office for members of the Executive is two years. Individuals may serve up to three consecutive terms, after which they are no longer eligible for nomination in the following term.
If there are more than eight nominations for the Executive, a ballot will be held.
Full information is available on the HERDSA website at www.herdsa.org.au/call-nominations-herdsa-executive-2023-2025
This information includes:
• The names of the current members of the Executive and eligibility for re-election
• Position description for a Member of the Executive and Portfolio descriptions
• Details of the nomination process
• Nomination Form
• HERDSA Code of Practice
While the HERDSA Constitution does not stipulate branch or regional representation, branches are encouraged to nominate a representative to provide a link between the Executive and the branch committees.
Being on the HERDSA Executive requires a commitment of time. Nominees should be able to commit to the role and it is recommended that they seek the support of their line manager (where appropriate).
The closing date for nominations is 5:00pm AEST Friday 3rd March 2023. The new Executive will be ratified at the HERDSA AGM to be held during the HERDSA 2023 conference in Brisbane, Queensland.
Further information: www.herdsa.org.au/call-nominations-herdsa-executive-2023-2025
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Academic Development SIG Virtual Cafe Chat
Friday March 3, 1pm AEDT
The Academic Development SIG will hold a Virtual Cafe Chat on Friday, March 3, 3pm New Zealand time (1 pm AEDT). We will be discussing how we can support teaching staff who are now faced with more readily available artificial intelligence tools. We will be talking both about the challenges and affordances of AI tools in higher education teaching and learning, in particular for assessment tasks. Join us via Zoom on https://canterbury.zoom.us/j/91750732737?pwd=TEUwdE92MVBRZzl5dm8zSDllZjh...
Further information: erik.brogt@canterbury.ac.nz
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HERDSA Webinar - Applying A1 to Student Tasks
Friday March 10, 2023 1.00pm AEDT (Sydney time) 12.30pm SA time
In this interactive webinar Edward Palmer discuss the increasing awareness and capabilities of AI and its likely impact on education. By providing a background of where AI has come from and how it is currently being used we address the new version of ChapGT and its ability to produce work that is indistinguishable from a good students output. We also address other AI engines that can create scripts, books, artwork and videos that will challenge our abilities to assess creative output as we have done in the past. We provide time to discuss the impact of AI on their approaches to teaching and learning and provide our thoughts on how we can manage this new disruptive tool. The goal of the session is to provide some opportunities to discuss new ways to assess based on the unassailable presence that AI will have in the workplace and education. How do we provide opportunities for students to learn in an AI world and how can we reliably assess student capability when AI can do their work for them?
Further information: https://www.herdsa.org.au/herdsa-webinar-series
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Call for nominations for HERDSA Life Memberships
Closes 17th March 2023
HERDSA life Members are individuals who have made a substantial, prolonged contribution to HERDSA through their service to the Society and/or have made a distinguished contribution to higher education. We are pleased to count many significant contributors in our list of life members (https://www.herdsa.org.au/life-members).
The HERSDA Executive is now calling for nominations for new life members. The Executive will review nominations and elect up to two new life members who will be recognised at the 2023 conference.
To nominate an outstanding individual for HERDSA Life Membership, please forward a short statement detailing the following:
• Name and Email of Nominee
• Name and Email of Proposer
• Statement of outstanding Contribution to HERDSA and/or higher education (approx. 500 words)
Please forward to office@herdsa.org.au by Friday 17th March 2023
Further information: office@herdsa.org.au
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HERDSA Webinar - Bringing together psychological influences, social and environmental aspects for improved graduate preparation
Thursday 23rd March 2023 - 1.00 - 2.00pm AEDT
Research is emerging on identified functional (how-to) cognitive aspects of employability. Higher education graduates from all disciplines encounter multifaceted and precarious working lives that feature multiple transitions, complex employment arrangements and often a do-it-yourself career management plan to achieve meaningful paid work.
The Australian Government introduced The Job-ready Graduates package that ‘invests in higher education in areas of national priority’ (www.education.gov.au). It is a priority, therefore, for tertiary providers to renew curriculum with value-added Work Integrated Learning (WIL) such as contemporary professional practice internship programs.
Sydney Conservatorium of Music has a program to encourage undergraduate BMus students to develop ‘career readiness’ as Australia’s graduate destinations data report these creative workers as having the poorest graduate employment outcomes of all 40 broad higher education disciplines (Graduate Careers Council of Australia, 2020).
An elective as part of their program, our internships are in collaboration with the 17 NSW Regional Cons plus various Arts industry partners and involve a scaffolded process using the Literacies for Life as a conceptual framework to help students understand their career and study confidence. As a student profile tool with accompanying resources, it aims for students to explore their cognitive dispositions and capacity of professionalism and ‘use them to enhance confidence and make informed life and career decisions in line with values and goals’ (www.employability.com.au).
By exploring the specific employability skills that build potential capacity to engage students as future professionals in all related fields we can begin to determine how students successfully transition from an accomplished student to a beginning and employable graduate.
Further information: https://www.herdsa.org.au/herdsa-webinar-series
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Expressions of interest are sought for the HERDSA 2023 Conference Communication Team
31 March 2023
The HERDSA Conference is awesome; being involved in the conference team is even more awesome! We have 5 volunteer spots available in HERDSA 2023’s dynamic Communications team. The HERDSA 2023 conference will take place in Brisbane from 4–7 July 2023. Led by the experienced Communications Lead, Dr Manisha Thakkar, this team works during the conference to publish live conference updates via social media. The role of the Communications team is to promote upcoming conference sessions and activities, live tweet conference presentations, and enhance the conference’s visibility and ‘vibe’. Innovative ideas are welcome. At least two team members should have basic photography skills (phone photography is fine). We are also keen to include an alt-text writer to ensure that all of our visual social media is accessible. Anyone with expertise in inclusive social media is particularly welcome to join the Communications team.
To register your interest, please email comms@herdsa.org.au by 31 March 2023. In your email, please let us know which of the following roles interest you:
• Twitter conference updates
• Tweeting about conference presentations
• LinkedIn posts about conference presentations
• Conference photography
• Inclusive social media/communication
• Alt-text writing for conference visuals posted to social media
Working as part of a major international conference team is great for your CV and is also a fantastic way to engage with the conference. We look forward to hearing from you.
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HERDSA Webinar - Sustainability Development Goals and Higher Education
1pm AEST, Thursday 27th April 2023
The United Nations has articulated 17 Sustainable Development Goals. My own pedagogical and research interest commenced some while ago where the UN previously declared the ‘Decade of Sustainability’. SDGs have now become a critical point of action for us all. But understanding what to do as educators is problematic. My own field of music can seem rather remote from the aim of zero poverty, but perhaps closer to the aim of good health and well-being or quality education.
In this webinar we will look at how we can embrace these goals as a focus for learning within our curriculum, look at some definitions and what that means for action, and hear some examples from the field of music.
Further information: https://www.herdsa.org.au/herdsa-webinar-series
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Higher Education Research & Development, Vol. 42 No. 1 is now available online
Higher Education Research & Development, Vol. 42 No. 1 is now available from the HERDSA website at https://www.herdsa.org.au/higher-education-research-and-development-vol-...
Free online access is available to HERDSA members through your member dashboard.
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National Symposium: The purposes of Australian Higher education
24 March 2023
2023 offers significant opportunities for Australian higher education. With universities continuing to recover from the disruption of the pandemic and the government embarking on a major policy reform process, this symposium will examine changing purposes of higher education. Professor Simon Marginson will present a keynote on the intrinsic and extrinsic purposes of higher education. This will be followed by sessions featuring leading thinkers that will examine the different purposes of higher education within the Australian context and examine individual and social collective outcomes. Hosted by the Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education. Registrations essential.
Further information: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/p8ze
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Sydney Educational Measurement and Assessment Symposium
27 March 2023
The central purpose of the Sydney Educational Measurement and Assessment Symposium is to bring together people from a range of communities, settings, and traditions.
We envisage receiving proposals from those employed in the school sector, higher education sector, VET sector, government, and industry.
Measurement topics could include for example school improvement, teaching quality, evaluation of school systems, large-scale assessments, test creation, race and educational measurement validity, psychometrics, measuring 21st century skills. Assessment topics could include theory underlying assessment, feedback, formative assessment, automated assessment and AI, authentic assessment, collaborative/group assessment, learning analytics and assessment, equity in assessment, inclusive assessment, policy, assessment and curriculum reform, leading assessment, teacher data literacy.
Proposals are now invited for research presentations in a range of formats.
The Sydney Educational Measurement and Assessment Symposium is running for the first time in 2023, and will be hosted by the Centre for Educational Measurement and Assessment (CEMA) at The University of Sydney on Thursday 1 June 2023. It will be held primarily in person (face-to-face) in the Abercrombie Building at the Camperdown/Darlington campus in inner city Sydney, but online participation will be available.
Further information: https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/our-research/centres-institutes-and-group...
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New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development
Mapping academic practice: a Latourian inquiry into a set of lecture slides, Jonathan Tummons, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2174086
Diversified patterns and future prospects of international student mobility: a multi-level analysis from global and Asian perspectives, Yi-Hsuan Irene Huang, Cheng-Ta Wu, Chao-Yu Guo & Jia-Ling Kang, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2174083
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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.