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* HERDSA Blog Post: Learning how to Learn (Effectively)
* HERDSA Webinar: The 5C Formula for Impactful SoTL Projects
* Talking about Teaching and Learning (TATAL) Pre-conference Workshop at HERDSA 2025
* Job Opportunity: Associate Dean Academic, Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies Auckland University of Technology
* CRADLE Seminar Series. Why authenticity matters: Helping students to find meaning and value in assessment
* Call for contributions: Collaborative paper on postdigital co-design with Generative AI
* Seeking Participant Volunteers for a UNE Resilience in Higher Education and technology Qualitative Study
* New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development
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HERDSA Blog Post: Learning how to Learn (Effectively)
Daniel Andrews, 16 April 2025
Daniel Andrews discusses strategies for encouraging students to move beyond surface learning strategies to develop and deep understanding during their studies.
Read more: https://herdsa.org.au/herdsa-connect/learning-how-learn-effectively
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HERDSA Webinar: The 5C Formula for Impactful SoTL Projects
April 30th 12-1pm AEST Time (QLD time)
Join Associate Professor Alice Brown (UniSQ, HERDSA Executive and SoTL Portfolio Lead) and Dr. Olga Kozar (Macquarie University) for a refreshed, popular workshop, where you’ll consider the 5C’s approach for selecting a promising research topic.
1. Concern
2. Common Ground (Context)
3. Crack in Knowledge (Complication)
4. Your Contribution
5. Course of Action
This framework will help you to conceptualise and develop a strong Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) project. Whether you’re exploring innovative practices, tackling challenges, refining methods, or engaging with student feedback, this session will empower you to design a high-potential project. Bring your ideas, and let’s brainstorm together how YOU can select the most impactful research topic.
Further information: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/ba01618a-6522-4f10-a3c6-5b85254...@c4d10133-8d1d-45b3-8a8c-dd1a334d7f41
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Talking about Teaching and Learning (TATAL) Pre-conference Workshop at HERDSA 2025
7 July 2025
More than 16 years on and we are again inviting HERDSA members to the highly successful Talking about Teaching and Learning (TATAL) workshop. TATAL offers a safe, trusting, respectful space for reflective practitioners to meet to enhance their education skills and the learning of students. At the 2025 TATAL workshop you will learn about reflective practice, build and participate in an ongoing education community, and reflect on your teaching philosophy. This can also lead to a Fellowship application (HERDSA, CMALT and/or HEA). The workshop begins with brief online introductions two weeks before the HERDSA conference. Following the conference, you can choose to continue TATALing through face-to-face and/or online meetings to reflect on the puzzles of teaching and learning, engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning, or develop a teaching portfolio. To register go to: https://expertevents.eventsair.com/herdsa-2025/registration/Site/Register
Further information: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11PECla5TMnabodMuy01dIDcQ4JWhArBMlPvc...
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Job Opportunity: Associate Dean Academic, Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies Auckland University of Technology
4 May
Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand is currently recruiting for an Associate Dean Academic, within its Faculty of Design and Creative Technologies.
Key focus areas include:
- Lead the development of innovative academic practices that advance personalised learning and the overall quality of our educational offer to students.
- Lead the implementation of advances in learning technologies and digital and multimode practices in teaching and learning.
- Uplift the academic capability and capacity of our academic community. Work closely with our Office of Learning, Teaching and Educational Design and other key stakeholders to develop and implement new programs for staff academic development.
- Foster a positive culture of academic excellence by leading academic debate relating to research in teaching and learning.
- Work closely with numerous internal and external stakeholders including the Faculty Dean, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic, Pro-Vice Chancellor Learning & Teaching, other FDCT Associate Deans, Heads of School and relevant professional bodies.
- Active contribution to faculty, university and academic-related committees.
Further information: https://careers.aut.ac.nz/?job=91953TC
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Call for contributions: Collaborative paper on postdigital co-design with Generative AI
30 May 2025
We are inviting 700-word contributions for a collectively authored article exploring co-design in higher education through a postdigital lens. The contributions should showcase examples of how educators, researchers or designers are integrating Generative AI as a co-designer in higher education. These examples can range from optimistic, preferable possibilities to more critical perspectives.
Each submission should include a real-world example and visual artefact (e.g. image, drawing, screenshot) that together illustrate your co-design practice with Generative AI. Selected contributions will be submitted as a collaborative paper to Postdigital Science and Education.
Further information: https://link.springer.com/journal/42438/updates/27744276
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CRADLE Seminar Series. Why authenticity matters: Helping students to find meaning and value in assessment
Wednesday 4 June 2025 2.00pm - 3.30pm (AEST)
In this presentation, CRADLE Fellow Dr Tim Chambers, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, unpacks the results of his recent research investigating students' perceptions in health psychology assessments.
The recent problematising of authentic assessments has resulted in a multitude of new perspectives that invite us to look beyond merely replicating real-world tasks and consider the meaning and purpose of these tasks and the context within which they are undertaken. This seminar will focus on how psychological authenticity may shape students’ perceptions of the meaning and value of assessments. Guided by self-determination theory, we propose that students make authentic judgements regarding the alignment between the assessment task and their personal values before then performing self-determined behaviours. Drawing on the experiences of first-year psychology students, I will showcase how they perceived authenticity within the context of health psychology assessments. Following this, I will reflect more broadly on students’ experiences with first-year assessments that resonate with being true to themselves.
Join us for this compelling and this topical presentation at Downtown or online.
Further information: https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdeakin...
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Seeking Participant Volunteers for a UNE Resilience in Higher Education and technology Qualitative Study
We would like to hear from academics at all levels who are willing to participate in this UNE PhD qualitative study (Ethics approval: HE24-129, valid 10/7/2026) investigating how academics in Australian higher education institutions adapt and manage their practice using workplace technology to complete educative work. Your participation will involve completing a short pre-screening online survey, ensuring the target group, academics employed in a higher education institution in Australia, who use workplace technology for educative work are selected (public or private university). If you wish to participate please click on the link to complete the short survey. Please answer all questions in the survey to be considered in this study (including your full name and contact details).
https://unesurveys.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_08ocuZ46BaZ3bHE
An invitation to participate in an online, short video interview will be sent to participants who meet pre-screening criteria and interviewees need to submit a 300-400 word reflection (post interview). We look forward to hearing from you.
Please forward this request to academics, working in Australian Higher education institutions
Further information: contact Marie (Bernie) Fisher: mfisher@myune.edu.au or LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marie-f-51697368/
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New online first articles in Higher Education Research and Development
Balancing the scale: examining the impact of publication quotas on academic well-being in Vietnamese higher education, Thanh Thao Le & Trut Thuy Pham, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2486188
Near-peer teaching in a university outdoor environmental education programme: following footprints in the sand, Glyn John Thomas, Brendon Munge, Robyn Fox & Michael Carey, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2486187
The missing story of GenAI summarisers: a critical research agenda, Thomas Alexander Corbin & Jack Walton, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2486185
How should work-integrated learning supervisors support their students? A concurrent triangulated mixed-method study, David Drewery, My Truong & Anne-Marie Fannon, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2486178
To sit the exam or to be recommended: a Bourdieusian perspective of capital and habitus needed for becoming a postgraduate student in Chinese premier universities, Tengteng Zhuang & Baocun Liu, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2486181
From pressure to progress: examining teaching demands and resources in Private Higher Education Institutes of India, Seema Sharma & Santoshi Sengupta, https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2486186
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In the spirit of reconciliation HERDSA acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australasia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.