* Research and Development in Higher Education, Vol. 40 now online
* Call for Papers: Special Issue of HERD 2019: New Perspectives on Reading and Writing Across the Disciplines
* Call for papers extended: 7th International Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference
* Ful time position at UTS: Academic Language and Learning
* Job Vacancy: Head of Kathleen Lumley College, University of Adelaide
* ICED Conference registration and pre-conference workshops is Live!
* Networking for capacity to teach with technologies - call for research participation
* Higher Education in the Headlines

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Research and Development in Higher Education, Vol. 40 now available online

The conference proceedings Research and Development in Higher Education Vol. 40 from the HERDSA 2017 Annual Conference: Curriculum Transformation is now available from the conference proceedings section of the HERDSA website at http://www.herdsa.org.au/research-and-development-higher-education-vol-40

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Call for Papers: Special Issue of HERD 2019: New Perspectives on Reading and Writing Across the Disciplines
Full papers due 31 March 2018

Guest editors: Judith Seaboyer (University of Queensland) and Tully Barnett (Flinders University)

This special issue connects a growing body of work on and interest in reading and writing across the disciplines, including cognitive science, the text-based foundations of much of new media and digitisation, and the widening international participation agenda in the tertiary sector.

Deep reading and its concomitant good writing are essential both to the mastery of content across disciplines and across cultures, and to the transformative potential of higher education. This special issue seeks inventive papers that consider reading and writing from practical, theoretical, and political perspectives. What are the challenges, difficulties, and pleasures of reading for students and teachers? What strategies best help students learn to de-code complex texts and enter into meaning-making dialogue?

We are interested, too, in papers that consider how twenty-first-century technologies and modes of knowledge production and dissemination influence how as well as what students do and don’t read. What reading platforms are students using? What are the intersections and tensions between digital and traditional ways of reading and writing? What are their implications?

Does constant hyperlinking, as Naomi Baron, Nicholas Carr and others have suggested, undermine the brain’s capacity to process long-form text? How might we foster what Maryanne Wolf has termed bi-literacy, the capacity to shift between two activities: the efficient rapid reading-for-information that involves scanning, clicking, linking and the “slower, more time-consuming cognitive processes ... vital for contemplative life.”

Submissions might address the following:
• What is the case for the core importance of reading and writing across the disciplines, or within specific disciplines, in an increasingly marketised university?
• Might a tertiary education that fosters imaginative, thoughtful, hospitable, adaptable reading be reflected in a democratized citizenry? Or is this a consolatory narrative?
• What role might deep reading play in developing the creative thinking necessary for success in an AI world?
• To what extent are programs that create a space for reading and writing shaped by outside forces? What pressures are shrinking budgets, the massification of tertiary education, job markets in crisis, and political influences placing on different programs across different geopolitical locations?
• What are the affordances of technologies? How are they changing the way students read and write? How might students benefit from a range of platforms for both activities?

HERD seeks articles of between 5000 and 7000 words (all inclusive) that engage with these issues in some way. Full articles are due by 31 March 2018. The special issue is slated for publication in early 2019. For more information or to seek feedback on an idea, please contact the special issue editors Judith Seaboyer j.seaboyer@uq.edu.au and Tully Barnett tully.barnett@flinders.edu.au

A guide for authors, along with other relevant information, can be found on the journal’s homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/herd Submissions should be made online at HERD’s Scholar One site: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cher

Further information j.seaboyer@uq.edu.au

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Call for papers extended: 7th International Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference
Submissions due December 14, 2017; midnight EST

Dear Colleagues 

A brief reminder that the call for proposals for the 7th International Biennial Threshold Concepts Conference at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio USA June 13-16 2018 closes at midnight EST next Thursday 14th Dec.

Many thanks
Ray
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Ray Land 
Professor Emeritus | Durham University UK
ray.land@durham.ac.uk

Further information http://miamioh.edu/hcwe/threshold-concepts/submit-proposal/index.html

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Ful time position at UTS: Academic Language and Learning
Applications close January 22, 2018

Applications are invited for a full-time continuing position with the Academic Language and Learning Group in the Institute for Interactive Media and Learning. For details see link below.

https://recruitment.uts.edu.au/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?OAFunc=IRC_VIS_VAC_DISPLAY...

Further information kerry.hunter@uts.edu.au

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Job Vacancy: Head of Kathleen Lumley College, University of Adelaide
Applications close on Monday, 29th January 2018. 

The Council of Kathleen Lumley College is seeking a dynamic individual to undertake the responsibilities of Head. The College is the postgraduate residential college of the University of Adelaide. It was established in 1967, and accommodates up to 81 residents who are postgraduate students or staff at one of the universities in Adelaide, with the majority being at the University of Adelaide. Many of the residents are overseas students. 

The Head of College is responsible for the management of the College and, together with the College Council, is concerned with the planning and policy development for the College. 

The position is residential and part-time, and reports to the Council of the College. The successful candidate will be expected to have a good understanding of the Australian university environment, postgraduate study and research, and a multicultural environment. The successful candidate will be expected to take up the position early in 2018. 

Information about the College is on its website: www.kathleenlumleycollege.com.au 

Further information is available from the Chair of the Selection Committee, Wendy Wills. email: wendy.wills@internode.on.net or phone: 0407 723 719. All enquiries will be treated in the strictest confidence.

Further information wendy.wills@internode.on.net

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ICED Conference registration and pre-conference workshops is Live!
March 12, 2018

Dear Colleagues:

International Conference for Educational Developers is proud to announce pre-conference workshops have been scheduled and are now available for registration. These 3-hour workshops feature some of the best names in educational development and feature speakers from 7 different countries. 

Pre-conference workshops are in two different timeslots, 9am to 12pm and 2pm to 5pm on Tuesday, June 5th, 2018. Registration is required for each workshop and includes lunch for all pre-conference workshop participants. 

View PreConference Schedule https://www.iced2018.com/2018/schedule/2018-06-05

Call for Proposals Open! 
Conference submissions are open until March 12, 2018. For early acceptance please submit by December 22 @ 11:59pm EST. We are accepting both one-hour workshop proposals and twenty minute paper presentations.

Register Here https://www.iced2018.com/2018/registration 

Hope to see you there!

Further information cetl@kennesaw.edu

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Networking for capacity to teach with technologies - call for research participation

You are invited to participate in doctoral research on networked elearning capacity development conducted by Ashwini Datt from the University of Auckland (UoA). The research is under the supervision of Professor Helen Sword and Dr. John Egan and approved by the UoA Human Participants Ethics Committee (reference number 01881). Your participation is voluntary, and you may decline this invitation to participate without penalty. You can participate by completing an anonymous questionnaire and/or committing an hour of your time for a semi-structured interview.

Further information https://auckland.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_41rP9bXQbIpjoNf

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Higher Education in the Headlines

‘Poor cousin’ VET’s funding falling| JOHN ROSS | Australian Higher Education | 13 December, 2017
Training’s share of education spending has plummeted 30 per cent, as VET reels from a bipartisan trashing.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/poor-cousin-vets-fundin...

Chapel Hill’s New Civil War | Vimal Patel | Chronicle of Higher Education | 08 December, 2017
A monument to the Confederacy known as Silent Sam stands at the main entrance of the University of North Carolina. It’s ripping the campus apart. So what’s keeping it there?
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Chapel-Hill-s-New-Civil-War/241944

Chinese power ‘may lead to global academic censorship crisis’ | Ellie Bothwell | Times Higher Education | 07 December, 2017
Academic experts on China say the state may now issue demands in collaborations with Western universities 
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/chinese-power-may-lead-global-...