HERDSA Notices 25 January 2017

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* Supporting Learning Differences in Post-Secondary Environments: A Free MOOC from the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation
* Exciting academic career opportunity in the Northern Territory
* Call for Papers: The Role of Failure in Promoting Thinking Skills and Creativity
* ODLAA Conference – 5 – 7 February 2017
* Call for Proposals for themed Issue Of Distance Education (Volume 39, Number 2, 2018)
* Higher Education in the Headlines

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Supporting Learning Differences in Post-Secondary Environments: A Free MOOC from the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation
January 30, 2017

This free course will initiate a mindset shift wherein professors and other staff more effectively and efficiently gain personal agency to identify, address, and implement best practices when supporting the learning of all students in post-secondary environments. The primary audience for the Supporting Learning Differences in Post Secondary Environments MOOC-Ed is college and university professors, staff, and other faculty who regularly support and interact with students with learning differences. The instructor has also developed a PLC (professional learning community) guide for this course, which is designed to encourage participants to take the course not only with their online peers but also to engage their colleagues in face-to-face sessions to work through course content together.

Learn more and register today at friday.institute/ldpse:herdsa

Further information friday.institute/ldpse:herdsa

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Exciting academic career opportunity in the Northern Territory
​30 January, 2017

Flinders Northern Territory have several nursing/allied health lecturer/senior lecturer positions available. The key purpose is to facilitate a program of allied health and nursing placements, and to build the health workforce for the NT. It will include ongoing development, expansion and co-ordination of an inter-professional placement program in a range of NT settings for students undertaking entry to practice studies. Closes Jan 30.

Further information See Jobs at Flinders, Vacancy 16217 or contact Narelle Campbell (narelle.campbell@flinders.edu.au)

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Call for Papers: The Role of Failure in Promoting Thinking Skills and Creativity
31 January 2017

Failure is essential to successful learning. Without failure we cannot find out what we have not learned yet and what aspects we might need to improve in what we are attempting to learn. But all too often, failure is viewed negatively in educational settings. It is considered as something to be feared, and is often associated with aversive outcomes and punitive consequences. This should not be the case. The well-known American educator and philosopher, John Dewey, has an often-cited quote that “failure is instructive”. He elaborated on this to explain that a person who really thinks should be able to learn as much from experiences of failure as from experiences of success.

As educators, we have a responsibility to re-orient students as well as teachers toward a better understanding of how experiences of failure can and should be utilized in more positive and productive ways. The aim of this volume is therefore to present a range of investigations into how we can think differently and creatively formulate ways to re-establish failure as an essential and beneficial component of learning – especially in the development of critical thinking, inventiveness, and creativity. Focusing on creative or innovative approaches to learning and instructional practices, potential contributors are invited to submit their proposals regarding any educational setting (primary, secondary, higher education, lifelong learning, adult education, virtual environment learning), and employing any appropriate research methodologies.

Potential authors are invited to submit a 250-word abstract of their proposal in English by 31 January 2017 to either:

Professor Emmanuel Manalo on manalo.emmanuel.3z @ kyoto-u. ac.jp OR Professor Manu Kapur on manukapur @ ethz.ch

Read more here: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/thinking-skills-and-creativity/call-fo...

Further information https://www.journals.elsevier.com/thinking-skills-and-creativity/call-fo...

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ODLAA Conference – 5 – 7 February 2017
Register now…just under 2 weeks to go!!
 
Registrations for the conference are still open via the on line web site http://odlaa.org/odlaa_events/2017-conference/registration/
 
The 2017 Conference is designed to provide a range of experience and styles of presentations, including keynote speaker presentations, formal papers case study presentations, workshops and symposia. The conference also includes a welcome reception, conference dinner, field trips and networking opportunities over lunch and tea breaks each day.

The Conference will bring together university sector expertise to present high quality information and ideas exchange aimed at Open and Distance Learning professionals and allied practitioners.

Don’t miss this exciting Conference.

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Call for Proposals for themed Issue Of Distance Education (Volume 39, Number 2, 2018)
28 Febrary, 2017

The journal Distance Education (see http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/CDIE) is calling for EOIs from individuals and/or teams for the development of a guest-edited themed issue to go to press in May 2018. 

Guest editors should send a clear and concise proposal to the Executive Editor, Som Naidu (sommnaidu@gmail.com) on or before the end of February, 2017. All expressions of interest in developing a themed issue of the journal will be carefully considered by the editors of the journal for their appeal and timeliness and its alignment with the scope and coverage of the journal. Proposals could be revised or combined if that strengthens them and/or the editorial team.

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Higher Education in the Headlines

Melbourne takes a greener path | JULIE HARE | Australian Higher Eduction | 25 January, 2017
The University of Melbourne is out to set a new high water mark for universities globally.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/melbourne-university-le...

How to Cultivate Faculty Leaders | Audrey Williams June | Chronicle of Higher Eduction | 20 January, 2017
To build pools of potential leaders, colleges are trying to change the negative ways administrative roles are viewed, and give faculty members structured opportunities to learn behind the scenes.
http://www.chronicle.com/article/How-to-Cultivate-Faculty/238880

Cash-for-publications is ‘common practice’ | Jack Grove | Times Higher Eduction | 19 January, 2017
Lucrative offer to secure professor’s journal papers has renewed concerns over ‘unethical’ contracts used to distort university rankings
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cash-publications-common-practice