* Call for Presenters - HERDSA Online Engagement in Higher Education SIG 2024
* Publishing higher education research: HERD workshop
* HERDSA Webinar: Education for all
* Higher Education Research & Development: Call for Papers – Special Issue 2025
* 2024 Roundtable on Assessment Reform and Student Support
* Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching MOOC Semester 1
* Call for proposals: Systems convening and social learning spaces: Case Clinics
* digiTAL 2024, Mauritius, Digital Teaching, Learning and Assessment Conference, 16 & 17 October 2024

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Call for Presenters - HERDSA Online Engagement in Higher Education SIG 2024
24 Jan and 31 Jan

The HERDSA Special Interest Group: Online Engagement in Higher Education is focused on the phenomenon of online higher education student engagement, and the aspects that both hinder and foster this engagement.

As we prepare our SIG events for 2024 we would like to extend an invitation to those of you that have something relevant to share. Specifically, we invite you to nominate as a presenter or panel member for one of our events. Therefore, if you have something to share that aligns with the SIG’s focus we would like to hear from you. Specifically, if you have:

• introduced a student engagement intervention within your institution at either a subject / class level or across the curriculum that you can report on;
• undertaken research in online student engagement or an associated phenomenon, or
• utlised a framework that has assisted your practice.

Presentation are generally between 30 - 40 minutes and do need to be delivered in a manner that models the facilitation of student engagement.

Interested? Simply provide a brief paragraph outlining what you would like to share and provide a few details on how you intend to share this information to; herdsa.oesig@gamil.com by COB 9th February 2024.

Further information: https://www.herdsa.org.au/special-interest-groups

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Publishing higher education research: HERD workshop
Tues 13 Feb 4:00-5:30pm (AEDT)

Are you interested in publishing your education research? How do you get your paper past the editor and out to reviewers? This interactive workshop is designed to help you understand what journal editors are looking for and how you can maximise your chances of reaching your audience. We will explore review criteria, the structure of abstracts, and how to create engaging (and useful) titles and keywords.

Participants should be currently engaged in an education research project they’d like to publish on. They should also have available an article from their target journal for one of the exercises during the session.

Facilitator: Cally Guerin is currently a Joint Executive Editor of HERDSA’s Higher Education Research & Development journal. Find out more about Cally here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/callyguerin/.

Registration link: https://anu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUlce-tpzkpHNXBTX6QvUAAC8-cmEsE1Oa6

Further information: cally.guerin@anu.edu.au

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HERDSA Webinar: Education for all
Thursday 14th March 2024 - 1.00pm AEST (10am WST)

This presentation will outline the utility of using Mass Open Online Courses (MOOC) as a mechanism for supporting equity and diversity in tertiary education though the medium of advances in technology enhanced leaning. Specifically, it will cover:

0-10 minutes: What are MOOCs co-production and how are they being used in the learning and teaching community
10-25 minutes: Co-production of MOOCs from the perspective from autistic individuals
25-35 minutes: Practical considerations for developing online learning that promotes diversity and equity in learning and teaching
35-45 What next for MOOCs, how can we develop co-produced authentic learning and teaching experiences? Discussion panel session

Presenters: Dr Ben Milbourn, Katherine Browne, Dr Wenn Lawson, Professor Sonya Girdler

Further information: https://www.herdsa.org.au/herdsa-webinar-series

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Higher Education Research & Development: Call for Papers – Special Issue 2025
Full article deadline – 30 April 2024

Submissions are invited for HERD's 2025 Special Issue, "Reimagining Higher Education Learning Spaces: Assembling Theory, Methods, and Practice", led by Stephen Marshall, Samuel Elkington and Jill Dickinson.

Share your theoretical, pedagogical, and methodological insights that examine new and emerging learning and teaching spatial practice ecologies in HE.

Pushing beyond normative conceptualisations and totalising critiques of learning spaces in HE, this Special Issue invites international contributions that seek to reimagine spaces and places for learning according to the level of complexity, nuance, and depth that they exhibit and the neoteric topologies of connection, social meaning, and practice that they promote. Contributions might represent, connect, and assemble new theoretical perspectives, methodological approaches, and/or practical interventions to explore any, or a combination, of the following illustrative spatial themes: Connected space / Embodied space / Relational space / (Socio)Material space

Papers should be submitted in their final polished and complete state for review by 30th April 2024 via Submission Portal.

Further information: https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalNewsAndOffers?journalCode=cher20

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2024 Roundtable on Assessment Reform and Student Support
Tue, Feb 6th 2024

Building off a successful learning and teaching leaders’ roundtable in July 2023, we are seeking to bring together L&T leaders again to discuss and workshop two pressing issues facing Australian higher education in 2024: responding to assessment reform in the age of artificial intelligence, and the Government’s student support legislation.

Further information: https://educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au/teaching@sydney/2024-austra...

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Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching MOOC Semester 1
12 February 2024 – 30 June 2024

Last year 1,800 people registered for the MOOC. If you missed out then Semester 1, 2024 enrolments have opened for the Contemporary Approaches to University Teaching MOOC. There are 24 modules to choose from!

This course is for those who:
• teach in higher education anywhere in the world
• want content designed by learning and teaching experts
• seek to enhance their teaching and their students’ learning
• are interested in scoping the course for their institution’s professional development program
• are sessional, contract or continuing teachers.

You can choose which modules you explore and when, but we recommend one of the four pathways: new to teaching, enhancing student learning, enhancing your teaching practice or leading learning and teaching. An enhanced feature is that participants completing any of the four pathways can receive a digital badge for that pathway. Study is self-paced in two-hour modules that can be completed over a semester.

MOOC content is available to universities to share and adapt under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. The course is presented under the auspices of the Council of Australasian University Leaders in Learning and Teaching (CAULLT) and is led by A/Prof Agnes Bosanquet (Macquarie University) and A/Prof Marina Harvey.

Enrol here: https://canvas.instructure.com/enroll/FPXJJW

Further information: agnes.bosanquet@mq.edu.au

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Call for proposals: Systems convening and social learning spaces: Case Clinics
February 19, 2024

Are you a convenor of a social learning community or social learning space? Do you have specific challenges you are trying to overcome to do that work well? If so, then you might be interested in participating in this unique social learning process (collaborative case clinics) to produce a series of case studies on convening social learning spaces for a special issue of The Journal for Research and Practice in College Teaching. The call for proposals is at the link below. You are also welcome to contact Alisa Percy (alisa.percy@uts.edu.au) or Jacquie MacDonald (Jacquie.McDonald@unisq.edu.au) if you want to learn more about the process.

Further information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pWRHkpmWc7_V0WM0frxg2uLPmlS_MiQw/edi...

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digiTAL 2024, Mauritius, Digital Teaching, Learning and Assessment Conference, 16 & 17 October 2024
15th March 2024

Dear Colleagues,

Best wishes to you for 2024.
We invite submissions for the 5th edition of the International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning in the Digital Age (digiTAL 2024), which will be held in person on 16th and 17th of October 2024 at the Intercontinental Beach Resort, Mauritius. We also have limited spaces available to accommodate virtual presentations on our conference virtual day, 8th October 2024.

Conference Theme: Navigating the Future: Cultivating Digital Skills for Global Relevance
Abstract submissions can be made through the following link: by 15th March 2024 https://forms.gle/szCbxa6ByKvaBMad9
Accepted full papers will be published in the conference proceedings with ISBN: 978-0-7961-4365-5 (e-book)
[Adhering to DHET requirements, for SA authors]

Introducing "Best Presentation Awards" and a "Doctoral Colloquium" in this edition.

Keynote Speakers include: Prof Ben Kei Daniel, PhD, SMIEEE (New Zealand) and Dr Willy Engelbrecht (PhD) (South Africa)

Please share this Call with your Colleagues and Networks

Dr Upasana Singh
Conference Chair, 2024
Website: www.icdigital.org.za

Further information: www.icdigital.org.za

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