At this coffee catch up we'll discuss private higher education in Australia. 10% of Australian higher education students choose to study at Institutes of Higher Education.  The sector comprises 134 teaching-focussed specialist Institutes; QILT data evidences that they earn consistently higher student satisfaction than their public counterparts. What do you want to know about private HE? What's is like to work in the sector? The intention of the session is to build members' awareness of the Australian higher education sector generally and the private sector specifically.

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 16th 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.

Drawing upon practice and research within a university Aboriginal Centre and School of Indigenous Knowledge, this webinar invites attendees to engage with the challenge of over-regulation of learning and teaching in higher education, impacting both the student and the teacher experience.

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:

Join us for an interactive workshop where we'll guide you through the 5C’s - Common Ground, Complication, Concern, Course of Action, and Contribution - to help you conceptualize, develop, and potentially publish your Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) research project. Whether you're exploring innovative practices, addressing identified challenges, seeking improvement, or delving into student feedback and engagement, this session will empower you to contribute valuable insights to the educational community.

The HERDSA Branch Chairs and Special Interest Groups (SIGs) invite you to a series of online workshops focused on the generation of an abstract for the 2024 HERDSA conference. An initial workshop (14th Nov) will focus on starting an abstract. This session will be subdivided into people who have never put together a HERDSA abstract (novices) and people experienced with HERDSA abstracts (advanced) - with consideration of presentation formats and conference themes. The second workshop (30th Jan) will focus on finalising your abstract for submission, with some peer reviewing. 

In 2022, Matiu led a team of educational researchers, tertiary teachers, and teacher educators to produce a free online guide for tertiary teachers entitled 

WEBINAR SUMMARY:  Engaging with open educational practices (OEP) can seem daunting for staff, who may feel it represents an ‘all or nothing’ proposition for teaching and learning.  In this webinar, OEP will be contextualised and nuanced within the institutional ecology, and practical strategies supporting a transition toward openness will be explored. The underpinning rationale and purposes of open education inform these approaches, whilst also providing a measure for evaluation.

Join Dr Alexandra Johnston (University of Melbourne) for this 2-part, interactive series, “Evidence-informed peer review of educational practice: A hands-on approach.”

In the first part of this hands-on series, you will:

Please join us as we launch the newest HERDSA Special Interest Group. If you are intending to join the meeting, we ask that you complete the online survey before the meeting. Survey link https://forms.office.com/r/unvuzLU2PE. The data will assist us to gauge the SoTL experience and needs of the participants.

Facilitators: A/Prof Deb Clarke, Dr Trisha Poole, Sue Sharpe