* HERDSA Conference Update
* Call for Abstract: Pacific Peoples' Research Skills Symposium
* Be part of the ACEN 2018 National Conference
* Request to complete online survey for PG student research
* Free online seminar - 2 May 9.30am - Addressing the problem of contract cheating, Assoc Prof Cath Ellis
* Higher Education Academy Fellowship Forum: Leading the Way in Learning & Teaching
* Improving University Teaching (IUT) 2018 conference, Port Macquarie
* Call for Program Committee Members/Reviewers: IEEE TALE 2018 Conference on Educational Technology and STEM Education
* Higher Education in the Headlines

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HERDSA Conference Update

Attending HERDSA in 2018 - please be aware we will be finishing at the later time of 4.30 pm on Thursday 5th July. For those booking flights if you wish to stay to the end of the conference you will need to be aware of the later closing time.

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Call for Abstract: Pacific Peoples' Research Skills Symposium
Abstract Submission Deadline - April 30, 2018

As part of The University of the South Pacific’s 50th Anniversary celebrations, the Research Office has organised a Research Week to highlight the University’s achievements in various fields of research and research skill development. The two day Pacific Peoples’ Research Skills Symposium is organised during the Research Week and will provide a forum to learn about:

- Institution-wide outcomes for the Research Skill Development (RSD) initiative
- Case studies of practice using the Research Skill Development (RSD) framework
- Other universities/institutions approaches or Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching (MELT) to building research capacity of students/staff

The Symposium proceedings will be published as a book by the USP Press. 

Call for abstracts now open and we invite your submissions.

Please visit www.research.usp.ac.fj/pprs for more information.

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Be part of the ACEN 2018 National Conference
Submissions due - Monday 30 April, 2018; Early bird registrations close - Friday 15 June, 2018

Do not miss your opportunity to be part of a world leading conference focused on work integrated learning (WIL).

Since the first conference in 2008 the ACEN National Conference has come to be recognised as a global leader in conversations and research around the future of WIL. 

This year the conference is to be held in Brisbane from the 3rd to the 5th of October and will include exciting opportunities for you to foster the future of WIL in Australia. 

Presentations can be full papers (2,000 word limit) or abstract-only showcase and poster presentations.

The conference also provides the opportunity for a small number of roundtable sessions which provide an interactive opportunity for participants to engage deeply around a particular topic.

Selected full papers submitted to the conference will be invited for inclusion in a special issue of the International Journal of Work Integrated Learning. 

Further information http://acen.edu.au/2018conference/

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Request to complete online survey for PG student research
Survey completion required by 30 April 2018

I am a Master of Philosophy degree student at the University of Adelaide. You are invited to take an online survey. It will take about 10 minutes. You have until 30 April to take the survey. To open the online survey go to https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/T738N5C 

Your responses will assist my investigation of the nature of the relationship between purpose and policy in organisations, with a particular focus on how this relationship is manifest in the policy of selected Australian universities. As a starting point I want to find out what the people who work in universities say about the purpose of education and the purpose of educational institutions before comparing this data to the policies of selected Australian universities to see what they can tell us about the purpose of the institution. 

I’m seeking responses from people currently or recently (i.e. within last 18 months) working in Australian Universities in a wide range of roles – academic, professional and leadership. If you wish to pass this email on to colleagues who are or have recently been employees at an Australian university, please use this link https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/T738N5C 

Participation is completely voluntary. If you exit the survey anytime before clicking on the final SUBMIT button your responses will not be captured. Responses will be anonymous. Participant information is embedded in the survey. If you have any concerns or questions about participation in this research project please contact me directly at stephanie.eglinton-warner@adelaide.edu Alternatively you can contact either of my supervisors at cate.jerram@adelaide.edu.au or edward.palmer@adelaide.edu.au 

Further information stephanie.eglinton-warner@adelaide.edu

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Free online seminar - 2 May 9.30am - Addressing the problem of contract cheating, Assoc Prof Cath Ellis
2 May 2018

Contract cheating is causing considerable concern across the education sector. This workshop shares some recent findings from two large student and staff surveys conducted across several institutions in Australia. It uses the findings from these surveys to equip academic staff with new approaches and strategies to detect and deter contract cheating. It concentrates on what assessment design can and can’t achieve for us and supports academic staff in designing learning activities with their students to raise awareness about the problem. 

At the completion of this workshop, participants will be able to identify the specific challenges that contract cheating presents to them in their professional context. They will also be able to explain the difference between detection and deterrence and why both are important. They will also be able to design learning activities that support constructive conversations with students about contract cheating as a deterrence strategy.

Associate Professor Cath Ellis is the Associate Dean (Education) in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at UNSW, Sydney. Previously she worked at the University of Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, UK and the University of Wollongong in Australia. While her background is in Australian and Postcolonial Literature, her current research is in the area of academic integrity with a particular interest in contract cheating. She was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy in 2010.

Further information https://www.usq.edu.au/library/usq-libraries/events/2018/05/contract-che...

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Higher Education Academy Fellowship Forum: Leading the Way in Learning & Teaching
Monday 7 May 2018

Advance HE is very pleased to invite you to join us at our inaugural HEA Fellowship Forum in Hong Kong. This event will provide an opportunity to network and, learn more about the new Higher Education (HE) sector agency, Advance HE, and HEA Fellowship as they relate to leadership of learning and teaching in HE. Alison Johns, the new Chief Executive Officer of Advance HE, will be in attendance and there will also be the chance to celebrate the success of newly conferred HEA Fellows in Hong Kong who have been supported by the Higher Education Academy, the Queensland Government and Queensland University of Technology.

Date: Monday 7 May 2018
Times: 18:30 – 20:30 (HKT)
Location: Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi), Chai Wan Campus

HEA Fellowship demonstrates a personal and institutional commitment to professionalism in learning and teaching in higher education. Across four categories, from Associate to Principal, Fellowship provides individuals with recognition of their practice, impact and leadership of teaching and learning. There are now over 100,000 HEA Fellows worldwide.

Further information Please confirm your attendance at this event by Monday 23 April at: https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/individuals/fellowship/hk-forum

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Improving University Teaching (IUT) 2018 conference, Port Macquarie
June 26-29

The 2018 Conference Theme, "New Spaces for Learning: Opportunities and Challenges for Innovative Teaching"

We are pleased to announce the 43rd Annual International Conference on Improving University Teaching (IUT) will be hosted by Charles Sturt University in their new Port Macquarie Campus, June 27-29, 2018. This is the first time that the IUT conference has been held in Australia since 1999 and never before in a regional location. The IUT organising committee are utilising the interactive learning design (and 5* Green rating) of the Port Macquarie campus to support the 2018 conference theme “New Spaces for Learning: Opportunities and Challenges for Innovative Teaching”.

The Conference sub-themes:
• Adapting to new learning spaces—resistance and remedies
• Using online-blended teaching strategies for student learning
• Assessment in face-to-face, online, and blended environments
• Promise and pitfalls of Learning Analytics
• Faculty development for teaching beyond the classroom
• Recent research on learning in new spaces

For today’s students, learning no longer takes place in the classroom alone. MOOCs, student internships, blended learning, and collaborative research with faculty in laboratories or in the field have all expanded the educational setting far beyond the traditional lecture hall or seminar room. At the same time, the teaching best suited to these new venues remains a subject of discussion and even disagreement. Our 2018 conference offers an opportunity to explore the varieties of instruction best suited to these new learning spaces, while at the same time addressing problems they may entail.

The conference program over four days will include plenary sessions, interactive workshops, symposia, posters, and roundtables, as well as refereed papers—all organized around the sub-themes listed below. We hope you can join us in Port Macquarie as we reflect, discuss, debate and explore these issues among peers, leaders, practitioners, and researchers.

The free pre-conference Learning.Spaces workshop is scheduled to take place 8.00am-11.00am on the 26 June, 2018.

This will give IUT conference attendees an opportunity to tour the Port Macquarie campus and a tour of the town.

More details of workshop sessions will be announced later on, however we can say we have a mix of topics ranging from student perspectives of learning and spaces, specialist spaces, sustainable campus design, lifelong learning approaches/challenges and active learning in a modern space.

Please RSVP below and see you on 26th June, 8.00am.
http://thinkspace.csu.edu.au/learningspaces

Posted by IUT 2018 conference coordinator, A/P Kogi Naidoo, Charles Sturt University.

Further information http://www.iutconference.com/

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Call for Program Committee Members/Reviewers: IEEE TALE 2018 Conference on Educational Technology and STEM Education

Applications are sought from suitably qualified and experienced individuals to join the Program Committee as paper and/or proposal reviewers for IEEE TALE (http://tale2018.org), the IEEE Education Society's flagship conference in the Asia-Pacific region. This prominent international conference caters to researchers and practitioners with an interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education—with a particular emphasis on engineering and computing disciplines—as well as those interested in the innovative use of digital technologies for learning, teaching and assessment in any discipline.

TALE 2018, which will be held in Wollongong, Australia from 4 to 7 December 2018, will include two Streams (more details about which are available at http://tale2018.org/call):

(a) an Academic Stream for prospective academic/researcher presenters wishing to author peer-reviewed papers for the proceedings; and 
(b) a Practitioner Stream for prospective K-12, VET/L&D and Engineering & Technology Industry presenters those who only wish to submit an abstract for consideration (not published in the proceedings). 

The minimum requirement to join the Program Committee for Academic Stream is a Master's degree plus research experience; for the Practitioner Stream, a minimum of 3 years' practical (e.g., teaching, training, design, development) experience is required. 

An award will be presented to one or more Program Committee member(s) who the Program Chairs, in consultation with the Conference General Chairs and the wider Conference Organising Committee, deem to have made the most outstanding contribution in executing their reviewing duties. (Note: The Program Chairs’ decision is final.)

Individuals interested in serving on the TALE Program Committee should in the first instance complete the application form at the following URL: https://goo.gl/forms/v69shQ8j2RJUFs543 (Estimated completion time: 10-12 minutes)

The closing date for applications is 31 May 2018. Successful applicants will be notified by email in June 2018 (or earlier).

Questions may be directed to the Program Chairs at programchairs@tale2018.org, but please note that applications cannot be accepted via email.

Further information https://goo.gl/forms/v69shQ8j2RJUFs543

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Higher Education in the Headlines

International students soar 16pc | TIM DODD | Australian Higher Education | 18 April, 2018
The higher education sector is again the nation’s standout education exporter.'
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/international-students...

A Grand Plan for Public Higher Ed Is Aging. Can It Be Reinvented? | Karin Fischer | Chronicle of Higher Education | 13 April, 2018
California’s vision became a model for the nation. Six decades on, much of its promise has been hollowed out.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/A-Grand-Plan-for-Public-Higher/243037

Confucius Institute crackdown predicted as global inquiries mount | Ellie Bothwell | Times Higher Education | 12 April, 2018
Universities may close centres or be forced to register employees as foreign agents as a result of investigations, say experts
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/confucius-institute-crackdown-...