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Academic Development: The Art of Shaping Professional Identity & Educational Excellence

Yoko Mori provides insights about the art of academic development and poses the question "What does the art of academic development mean to you?"

Developing a practical resilience building technique for HE educators and students

Ruth Friedmann & Emma Wong discuss the importance of resilience building and an on-going study to investigate a method to assist people to build resilience within the context of higher education.

Engagement Over Attendance: Meeting the Needs of Modern Learners

Tegan Bradley discusses strategies we can use to enhance student engagement, while being mindful of the needs of the modern learner.
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Empowering Professional Identity Formation: Pathways to Success

In this post, Abigail Lewis delves into the key factors shaping the professional identity of health science students

International academics: Who are they and what are their barriers & opportunities in academia?

Linda Ng & Jasvir Kaur Nachatar Singh reflect on finding their identity as international academics and share their experiences of barriers and opportunities they have encountered along the way.

Talk Nerdy to Me: How Interactive Oral Assessments Can Shake Up Science Labs

Chris Della Vedova and Sarah Davey take us through their journey of introducing interactive oral assessments into a lab based course
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Coralie McCormack: A life of Living Practice

Coralie McCormack, who died at the age of 70, was a HERDSA life member, reflective practitioner, scholar, and mentor. This is an edited collection of reflections she shared about her approach to higher education research & development.

Process over product - What is the utility of process based assessments?

Tim Fawns observes that the advent of gen-AI thrust process based assessments into the limelight but asks, are process based assessments really the answer?
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