Higher Education Research and Development (HERD) is a highly ranked international journal that publishes scholarly articles that make a significant and original contribution to the theory, practice or research of higher education. If you have ever wondered about what processes are used to select and publish articles in HERD, or if you would like to find out how you can become a reviewer in a higher education journal, then this is the workshop for you!

The advent of COVID-19 has necessitated a rapid movement to online assessment for universities across the world. Due to technological challenges, cost, and concerns around privacy and surveillance, many universities have chosen to make use of non-invigilated online exams. There has been a resultant upsurge in misconduct cases.

If you missed our informative and provocative discussion of the review into scholarship definitions currently being conducted by the Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), you can watch the webinar recording here:

HERDSA Hong Kong Branch are pleased to announce an online panel discussion facilitated by Dr Anna KWAN to share and discuss arrangements of online learning, teaching and assessment during the COVID-19 outbreak and implications for higher education.

The panel will discuss major shifts and experiences in learning and teaching across six Hong Kong institutions, providing valuable insights for those of us working across Hong Kong and for our colleagues teaching well beyond Hong Kong.

Sustainability in Learning and Teaching: Making it Happen offers three essential perspectives on why a focus on sustainability must be central for higher education institutions, and how this focus on sustainability can be embedded into learning and teaching. To be shared in the webinar will be guiding resources, practical strategies and concrete examples. The webinar will bring together insights borne of major projects and of extensive practice of effecting change at both institutional and disciplinary levels.

We’re all familiar with the term “blended learning,” a style of education whereby students learn via electronic and online media as well as traditional face-to-face teaching.  This webinar will explore the concept of “blended writing,” a mode of writing whereby writers think, work and communicate using both digital and analog tools, bringing the material affordances of pens, paper and notebooks into the virtual realm of websites, learning management systems and Zoom.  What are the potential cognitive and creative benefits of blended writing for our students, our colleagues and ourselves, pa

Presenter- Adrian Stagg, University of Southern Queensland

Panel discussion chaired by Dr Pam Roberts (CSU) with Ass Prof Naomi Dale (University of Canberra), Dr. Debbie Lackerstein (UNSW Canberra), Marie Fisher (ACU), Tess Snowball (ANU). 

HERDSA Victoria are pleased to announce an online panel discussion to be hosted by Dr Dawn Gilmore (Director, Teaching and Learning at RMIT Online). This session will examine how students and academics are connecting with each other online, particularly in the context of the pandemic-prompted move to online teaching and learning.

Among the many challenges faced by universities in the context of COVID-19 is the problem of invigilated exams. Every semester university students have historically gathered en masse, seated in large halls in tight rows (in contravention of social distancing) to sit for examinations. But this year, universities have had to make quick, pragmatic decisions about whether to defer their examination periods, conduct exams online, or replace exams with alternative assessments.