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* Early Bird Registrations have been extended for HERDSA Conference 2019
* EOIs are open to host the 2020 or 2021 Students as Partners Roundtable
* Request a Field of Research code for the area of Learning Analytics in Australia/New Zealand
* Concerns about proposed contract cheating legislation
* 5th issue of International Journal for Students as Partners goes live
* New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development
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Early Bird Registrations have been extended for HERDSA Conference 2019
Early bird deadline is now 9 June 2019
There are plenty of options for registration. Please encourage your colleagues to attend.
Theme: Next Generation, Higher Education: Challenges, Changes and Opportunities
2-5 July 2019. Auckland, New Zealand
Kia ora, We look forward to meeting you in Auckland.
Further information: https://www.herdsa2019.auckland.ac.nz/register/
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EOIs are open to host the 2020 or 2021 Students as Partners Roundtable
EOIs are due by 1 July 2019
Host the Students as Partners Roundtable in 2020 or 2021! A wonderful opportunity to lead the conversation about engaging with students as partners, hosting the Roundtable is both exciting and rewarding. Whether your university is well down the pathway or just coming to engage in student-staff partnerships, hosting the Roundtable will focus efforts and enhance local practices by bringing practitioners from across Australia to your door-step. EOIs from New Zealand and Asia universities are welcomed. The EOIs are short with information about the Roundtable and criteria for hosting outlined via the link below.
Further information: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EfCcNztPyJCzQPJhb2rqIO0QW04Y6mv9/view
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Request a Field of Research code for the area of Learning Analytics in Australia/New Zealand
The deadline to submit the petition is 7 June.
Dear colleague.
The reason for this message is to bring to your attention an initiative set out by the research institutions in Australia and New Zealand to revisit the codes used to label research activities. In the following link
you will find a proposal responding to the call for comments to request the inclusion of a code for the area of Learning Analytics in this catalog. We think this is a very good opportunity to gain recognition for the field. The document is accessible to anybody. If you think it is appropriate, feel free to forward it to any of your colleagues.
Kind regards
Abelardo Pardo
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Concerns about proposed contract cheating legislation
28 June
My name is Phillip Dawson and I research academic integrity. I work at Deakin University but I'm writing this in my capacity as an individual academic.
TEQSA is currently seeking feedback on an exposure draft of legislation to prohibit cheating services. The proposed legislation makes it an offence to help students cheat, punishable by up to two years imprisonment and/or $100k in fines. Unfortunately the proposed legislation is not restricted to commercial cheating services. Peers, partners and family who help students cheat (which could be as little as offering to do a reference list) commit an offence under the proposed legislation.
If you would like to comment on the exposure draft, TEQSA is seeking submissions by 28 June here https://www.education.gov.au/tackling-contract-cheating
If you share my concern about criminalising family, partners and peers who help students cheat you may wish to sign a petition I have set up:
The petition asks TEQSA to scope the legislation to only include commercial cheating services.
Further information: http://chng.it/5gTSswn79Z
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5th issue of International Journal for Students as Partners goes live
We are delighted to let you know that the 5th issue of the International Journal for Students as Partners (IJSaP) is available from https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/ijsap/issue/view/349
In this issue we have a special section dedicated to Students as Partners in the Third Space. This consists of 6 articles and an editorial. At 200 pp Issue 3.1 is our largest to date. In addition to the Special Section you will find 1 opinion piece, 3 research articles, 2 reflective essays, 4 case studies, 1 review, and a list of reviewers for Issues 1.1 - 2.2. Together these contributions have been written by 43 faculty/staff and 28 students from Australia, Canada, China, Norway, UK and USA.
The journal, which is hosted by McMaster University Library Press, is co-edited by students and staff/ faculty from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the UK, and the US. Traditionally students have largely been excluded from engaging in academic publishing.1
If you enjoy this issue we hope you will support the journal in a variety of ways including:
a) Writing for the journal in any of the genres we publish. Please contact us with your ideas. We encourage you to send us (ijsap@mcmaster.ca) your proposals for articles, case studies, or reflective pieces before you submit them using our proforma https://tinyurl.com/IJSaPproposal.
b) Reviewing for IJSaP. We will provide training for inexperienced reviewers (students and faculty/staff). If you are interested, please complete the reviewer expression of interest form.
c) Telling others about the journal and contributions that you find particularly interesting. E.g. by forwarding this email to your local and disciplinary teaching and learning networks, and commenting on Twitter: @InterJournalSaP
d) Checking that your library lists IJSaP in their catalogue and knowing it is freely available from https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/ijsap.
We welcome hearing your views about the journal. Please send us an email (ijsap@mcmaster.ca).
Abderrahim Benlahcene, David Carless, Anthony Cliffe, Alison Cook-Sather, Rachel Guitman, Mick Healey, Ruth Healey, Amrita Kaur, Connie Kwan, Sandra Leathwick, Beth Marquis, Kelly Matthews, Anita Ntem, and Cherie Woolmer, the IJSaP Editorial Board
1 Healey, R. L., Healey, M. , & Cliffe, A. (2018) Engaging in radical work: Students as partners in academic publishing, Efficiency Exchange
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New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development
'Power to empower': conceptions of teaching and learning in a pedagogical co-design partnership, Denise Higgins, Adelaide Dennis, Angela Stoddard, Alexander G. Maier & Susan Howitt, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2019.1621270
English-medium instruction in law and the humanities in higher education: the role of teacher identity, Yi-Ping Huang, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2019.1621269
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