HERDSA Notices 26 April 2017

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HERD 2018 Special Issue: Call for Papers
* Call for Participation Learning Designer Role Research
* Higher Education in the Headlines

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HERD 2018 Special Issue: Call for Papers
1 August 2017

Topic: Frontier perspectives and insights into higher education student success
Guest editors: Professor Hamish Coates and Dr Kelly Matthews

‘Student success’ is the topic for this HERD Special Issue. This is a fundamental yet contested topic of relevance internationally that starts with the question: How can higher education help students succeed? As an umbrella topic, student success offers the promise of drawing together important yet often disparate threads across higher education research and practice such as student engagement, learning outcomes, admissions policies, transition, student experience, graduate employment, socioeconomic health.

While student success seeks to give primacy to students and their success, how universities foster such successes are inextricably entangled in the broader global ecosystem in which higher education unfolds. The concept of ‘student success’ has been given life in recent large-scale research work globally, and particularly in Asia, Australia, the United States and Europe. Smaller scale, highly contextualised ‘lived experience’ research from both developed and developing countries add to the body of knowledge. Such research has explored:

• the intersection between the changing place of the university in society and the political and economic framing of student success;
• fundamental normative assumptions about ‘success’ and ‘who are our students’ in higher education;
• the academic and broader experiences that are correlated with student success (and failure); 
• the impact of new technologies and information as an influence on the framing and engagement of student success; and
• patterns and prospects for student and graduate outcomes.

This HERD Special Issue creates space for ‘student success’ to be viewed through multiple lenses, including but not limited too:

• the current political international landscape juxtaposing nationalistic and global ideologies;
• the weight of neoliberal economic agendas shaping public perceptions, and internal operations, of higher education institutions;
• the equity and social justice view of higher education advancing a more inclusive and tolerant citizenry; and
• the emotional and cognitive domains of learning as a core function of higher education.

Contributions are invited that encompass practical, conceptual, and theoretical concerns; range from pure scholarship to more applied insights; and draw on a plurality of methodological approaches. The goal of the Special Issue is to refine debate on new understandings of ‘student success’, and new epistemologies and sources of evidence for investigating and conceptualising it. Contributions will address tensions and the increasingly challenging task of ‘helping students succeed’ given changing student cohorts and expectations, new forms of education, diversifying institutions, and socio-political pressures reshaping higher education. 

Submission Deadline: 1 August 2017
Instructions for Authors: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=cher20&pa...
Submit to Special Issue: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cher 
Questions to: hamishc@unimelb.edu.au 

Further information hamishc@unimelb.edu.au

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Call for Participation Learning Designer Role Research
May 17, 2017

CADAD has funded us to undertake a research project Professionalisation in Academic Development: Exploring learning designer roles in a changing higher education sector (Ethics approval 2017000315) to identify and document current learning designer practices across Australian universities. We are investigating the:
•relevant skills, knowledge, education and professional background,
•types of roles undertaken and employment conditions,
•challenges and enablers in these roles and conditions and
•areas for future attention.

As part of this project we are undertaking two national online surveys (which take approximately 15 minutes to complete) 
•one for institutional teaching and learning leaders and 
•one for learning designers.

We would value your participation. Survey links and further project details are available at: https://itali.uq.edu.au/content/ld-project.

Further information https://itali.uq.edu.au/content/ld-project

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Higher Education in the Headlines

Thomas girds for top research role | JULIE HARE | Australian Higher Education | 26 April, 2017
Sue Thomas’s elevation to one of the most senior roles in the ­research sector brings with it a national first.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/sue-thomas-girds-for-ch...

Math Gets a Makeover | Shannon Najmabadi | Chronicle of Higher Education | 21 April, 2017
The latest push to improve mathematics courses seeks to transform them from a gatekeeper to a gateway.Math
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Math-Gets-a-Makeover/239789

Drive to register all UK scientists: benchmark or bureaucracy? | Holly Else  | Times Higher Education | 20 April, 2017
Critics call proposal for world-first professional recognition system ‘demented’
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/drive-register-all-uk-scientis...