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* Working in partnership with students to enhance higher education
* Call for Papers: Special issue of the International Journal of Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education (IJ-ISME)
* CFP: Activism and the Academy
* I-MELT 4-6 December 2017 (date holder)
* Higher Education in the Headlines
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Call for Proposals: HERDSA 2017
The HERDSA 2017 Conference Committee warmly invite you to submit proposals for presentation at the 40th annual conference of Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia, to be held 27-30 June 2017 at the ICC Sydney.
The theme for the conference is Curriculum Transformation. This theme provides an opportunity to explore curriculum as a framework for student learning and experience rather than as simply an organising framework for disciplinary knowledge. It provides a platform to examine how quality sits at the centre of the process and the approaches needed to support for staff in curriculum development and innovative teaching practice.
For full details and to submit your proposals, please click here to visit the HERDSA 2017 Conference website at www.herdsa2017.org
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Working in partnership with students to enhance higher education
10 October workshop at USyd
Professor Alison Cook-Sather will be visiting the University of Sydney on 10th October, following her presentation at the National Students as Partners Roundtable at the University of Queensland on 5th October. She will be giving a workshop on working in partnership with students to enhance higher education. The workshop will be an interactive experience that combines sharing of principles and examples of partnership, with participants reflecting on their own ideas and contexts and discussing how they might put partnership into practice.
Alison Cook-Sather is the Mary Katharine Woodworth Professor of Education at Bryn Mawr College and Director of the Teaching and Learning Institute at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges. Professor Cook-Sather has developed internationally recognised programs that position students as pedagogical consultants to prospective secondary teachers and to academics. She has published over 70 articles and chapters, and her books include Engaging Students as Partners in Learning & Teaching: A Guide for Faculty (co-authored with Catherine Bovill and Peter Felten, Jossey-Bass, 2014) and Education Is Translation: A Metaphor for Change in Learning and Teaching (Penn Press, 2006).
10am to 12pm (morning tea available from 9.30am)
University of Sydney (see registration link for location details)
For further details and to register: https://sydney.edu.au/education-portfolio/ei/events/WPN%2Dtalk%2Dalison%2Dcook%2Dsather/609/
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Call for Papers: Special issue of the International Journal of Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education (IJ-ISME)
11 November, 2016
The International Journal of Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education is pleased to announce a special issue on the “STEAM classroom” of the future. This special issue aims to bring together technologists, researchers and teachers – to share, discuss and evaluate what we need for successful learning and teaching in our future classrooms. We invite submissions from all STEAM areas (science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics) including computer programming, computational thinking, electronics, robotics and coding, digital literacies and creative thinking, to address questions such as:
How can professional development activities increase teacher confidence to embed and foster a maker-culture within the classroom? What challenges exist in the implementation of gender-specific education programs and professional development? What role does teacher professional development play in equipping children to be active learners and future innovators? What new learning space and curriculum designs will our future classrooms require? How are new technologies, pedagogies and learning designs shaping teacher practice, and what is the impact on learners?
Papers should be between 3000-6000 words in length. Guidelines for authors are available at: escholarship.usyd.edu.au/journals/index.php/CAL/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
Abstracts due: 11 November, 2016 – Interested authors should initially submit a 250-word abstract for consideration to s.beames@uq.edu.au This expression of interest is to help ensure that the final edition addresses a broad range of disciplines and challenges.
Manuscripts due: 3 February, 2017 - Reviews will be returned in March, with final versions due in May 2017. This special issue will be published online in mid-2017 at: escholarship.usyd.edu.au/journals/index.php/CAL
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CFP: Activism and the Academy
Proposals due 14 November 2016
Submissions are invited for a special issue of Australian Universities' Review on ACTIVISM AND THE ACADEMY.
The guest editors are: Agnes Bosanquet (Macquarie University), Kate Bowles (University of Wollongong) and Karina Luzia (Independent scholar)
We welcome articles, essays and other forms of academic writing that seek to explore what it is to be and become (an) activist within and beyond the academy. We are initially seeking 500 word paper proposals (excluding scholarly references). These are due Monday 14 November 2016.
Read the full CFP on the AUR website: http://www.aur.org.au/article/AUR-Call-for-Papers-for-2017-Special-Issue...
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I-MELT 4-6 December 2017 (date holder)
I-MELT: International conference on Mobilising Engaged Learning and Teaching 4-6 December 2017, National Wine Centre, Adelaide
I-MELT will bring to life (the sometimes glibly used word) 'engagement' in ways that dynamically enhance students’ learning and educators’ teaching in and out of the curriculum, by:
- Supporting attendance from colleagues in Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia and nations of the South Pacific, to interact with colleagues from all states and territories of Australia and a variety of other nations.
- Dynamic and diverse keynote speakers: Mick Healey (UK), Jito Vanualailai (Fiji), Sylvia Tiala (USA) and Phil Levy (Australia).
- Using a shared conceptualisation around Models for Engaged Learning and Teaching, which include the Research Skill Development (RSD) framework, Work Skill Development (WSD) framework, Optimising Problem Solving (OPS) pentagon and Research Mountain (a song for early childhood).
- Encouraging presentations for a research stream (typically with ethics approval) and a practice stream (with accounts of implementation and some evaluation data).
- Running the event at the beautiful National Wine Centre, Adelaide, set adjacent to the Botanic Gardens
For conference themes, other information and flyer: www.i-melt.edu.au
I-MELT is supported by the Australian Government, Department of Education and Training through John Willison's National Senior Teaching Fellowship
Hope you can join us in Adelaide
John, for the I-MELT organising committee
query@i-melt.edu.au
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Higher Education in the Headlines
TEQSA eyes wider variation | DARRAGH O’KEEFFE & JULIE HARE | Australian Higher Eduction | 14 September, 2016
Higher education is becoming polarised as overall stable attrition masks increasing variation between universities.Landmark study confirms graduate premium variations | Jack Grove | 8 September, 2016
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/higher-education-regula...
How Gopher Nearly Won the Internet | Scott Carlson | Chronicle of Higher Eduction | 09 September, 2016
The humble computer protocol, developed by an upstart team of programmers at the University of Minnesota, paved the way for the online world of today, then quietly slipped back underground.
http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Gopher-Nearly-Won-the/237682
Landmark study confirms graduate premium variations | Jack Grove | Times Higher Eduction | 08 September, 2016
Analysis of Labour Force Survey data reveals extent of earnings boost for university leavers
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/landmark-study-confirms-gradua...