[HERDSA]:News on Wed 5th March 2008
Roger Landbeck
landbeck at ozemail.com.au
Wed Mar 5 12:47:07 EST 2008
Dear List Members
This week we have:
* News about HERDSA
* Positions vacant at the University of Melbourne, Curtin University, Oxford
Brookes University.
* Request for someone with expertise on managing student group & project
work for a staff PD workshop in Melbourne.
* Advance notice about 3rd iPED International Conference themed 'Researching
Academic Visions and Realities',8-9 September 2008, Coventry, UK.
* Latest news from AUQA and Go8
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News about HERDSA
1) Have you published in HERD?
The Editors of HERDSA's refereed journal, Higher Education Research &
Development, are interested in receiving submissions of research-based
articles and proposals for Special Issues from members and their associates,
on the theory and practice of higher education. Please refer to the Notes
for Contributors on the inside of the back cover of any recent issue of the
journal.
At this time we are also interested in receiving submissions on the
following range of topics:
- The external influences on universities
- The relationship between universities and the professions
- Privatization and the rise of 'for-profit' tertiary education
- Changes in academic work as a result of changes in funding
- Decline of collegiality as a result of changes in management
structures
- Academic freedom
- Scholarship of teaching and learning as it applies to institutional
criteria for promotion and tenure
- Experience of issues related to equity, social justice, social
class, ethnicity, gender, and disability
- Access to tertiary education and the effects of fees
- Issues around internationalisation
- Issues around transnational education
- Development and use of instruments related to teaching and learning
across cultures and regions
- Academic standards, are they changing, how do we know, does it
matter
- Issues around peer review of teaching and learning
Submissions of articles should, in the first instance, be emailed to
office at herdsa.org.au where they are given a document number and then sent to
the Editors. Proposals for Special Issues may be sent to Leo Goedegeburre,
Special Issues Editor lgoedege at une.ed.au Please send any further inquiries
to isoliman at une.edu.au
Izabel Soliman
On behalf of the Editorial Team
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2) News from HERDSA ACT Chapter
"The ACT HERDSA Chapter was restarted in August last year with a
visit by the president of HERDSA (now also the president of ICED),
Shelda Debowski.
At the end of November CEDAM, at the ANU, hosted the chapter
with 2 Carrick speakers and 2 HERDSA Conference speakers. We had
26 colleagues present including Kathryn Sutherland, Co-Convener
Of the HERDSA conference in New Zealand, who showed us the latest video of
Rotorua and talked about the conference. At the end of the seminar we had
lots of drinks and also got ideas about what the chapter wanted to do in
2008, they include:
-Establishing potential research/project alliances/partnerships
-Creating a Carrick Interest Group - investigating alliances for
research/submissions
-Bringing together current and potential members interested in
preparing a fellowship portfolio.
My colleagues, Jackie Walkington,and Peter Donnan, and I visited
ADFA in late February to gauge their interest in the ideas above.
We were well received by 3 interested colleagues and have an
event planned for the end of March this year. (See below)
We are excited by the possibility of making a start on the
teaching portfolios for HERDSA fellowships and in early 2009
possibly welcoming Dieter Schonwetter to Canberra. I have
taken the liberty of including the reference to one of his
articles dealing with Teaching philosophy statements and the
use of reflective practice.
Schönwetter, D. J., Sokal, L., Friesen, M., and Taylor, K. L.
(2002) Teaching philosophies reconsidered: A conceptual model
for the development and evaluation of teaching philosophy
statements. The International Journal of Academic Development.
7, 2. Taylor and Francis.
Seminar info
‘Forget that Uni stuff: You’re in the workplace now!’
You are invited to:
Take time to think away from the demands of the ‘office’.
Share your experience, successes and frustrations about workplace
learning. Reflect on practice with an aim to improving
what you do. Seek potential project or research partners.
Following a very short presentation to set the context (say 5 mins),
attendees will be invited to share their workplace learning
‘stories’ in forum style (say 15 more mins) before spending more
time (as long as you like) chatting over drinks and nibblies in
a collegial and convivial environment”. (Seminar to be held on 25
March at University of Canberra)
Robert Kennelly FHERDSA
University of Canberra
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POSITIONS VACANT
1) University of Melbourne
The Teaching and Learning Unit at the Faculty of Economics and Commerce may
shortly have causal staff vacancies for experienced language and learning
advisors. The specific area of need is for half-hour individual
consultations with undergraduate and postgraduate students (predominantly,
but not exclusively, international students from Asia).
Rate of pay will depend on qualifications and experience. For more
information, contact Dr Martin Davies (wmdavies at unimelb.edu.au), Deputy
Director of the TLU. CVs can be emailed.
About the TLU
The Faculty Teaching and Learning Unit provides teaching and learning
support to the Faculty’s undergraduate and graduate students. The aims of
the Unit are to:
--lead and assist academic staff in improving the teaching and learning
process, including the use of multimedia, and to evaluate the results of the
new methods of teaching;
--attract research grants, sponsorships, consultancies and joint ventures;
--provide advice to Deans, Heads of Departments and Associate Deans on any
matter related to Teaching and Learning;
--monitor and evaluate appropriate forms of assessment;
--focus on guidance for lecturers of large subjects where results of student
questionnaires indicate it is needed;
--provide assistance in discipline-specific communication skills to
international students and other students from non-English speaking
backgrounds;
--establish procedures for the training and monitoring of casual tutors;
--publish and promote research in education in the disciplines of the
Faculty;
--provide leadership and training to staff on cultural diversity issues.
The Unit comprises the Director, 3 Academic Learning Skills Specialists, 3
Electronic Learning Specialists and an Administrative Officer. The Unit
reports directly to the Dean of the Faculty.
For more information about the TLU, see: http://tlu.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/
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2) CURTIN UNIVERSITY
Perth, Western Australia
(Senior Lectureship ALC, Continuing)
As Senior Lecturer and Manager, you will work with a vibrant team in the
Office of Teaching and Learning and provide advice and support to Curtin
teaching staff about quality and best practice in all aspects of assessment,
including quality assessment tasks and criteria, how to give feedback to
improve student learning, and issues related to plagiarism.
You will also have responsibility for managing the Computer Assisted
Assessment laboratory on the Bentley campus.
Please see http://jobs.curtin.edu.au/positionview.cfm?positionid=12605
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3) Oxford Brookes University UK
Oxford Brookes are now advertising two academic development consultant
posts, one permanent and one temporary. Details are at:
https://edm.brookes.ac.uk/hr/hr/vacancies.do
The closing date for both posts is 26 March.
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Wanted: Expertise on managing student group & project work for a staff PD
workshop
We are looking for someone with expertise in academic development in the
area of managing and assessing student project-based work, who is willing to
travel to Melbourne's outer east to conduct a staff development workshop.
Preferred times are in the second half of the year, on a Thursday if
possible. This is a focus of our Faculty's work this year, so we are
particularly looking for practical advice, experiences etc. A small amount
of funding is available to cover travel costs. Recommendations of suitable
people to approach would also be most welcome.
Any suggestions / enquiries to Debbi Weaver (dweaver at swin.edu.au), Swinburne
University of Technology.
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Educational developers, researchers and managers are most welcome to join us
in September at the:
3rd iPED International Conference themed 'Researching Academic Visions and
Realities',
8-9 September 2008, Coventry University TechnoCentre, UK
www.coventry.ac.uk/iped2008
The DEADLINE for submission of 500 word Abstracts is 4th April 2008.
(Authors of accepted submissions may elect to submit a full paper in
July.)
Details of keynote and invited speakers within the *CONCEPTIONS OF
LEADERSHIP* and *ACADEMIC WRITING* themes are now available online. The
*EMERGENT PEDAGOGIES* keynote from Professor James Morrison, University of
North Carolina, USA will be complemented by a VIRTUAL KEYNOTE from Stephen
Downes, Institute for IT, New Brunswick University, Canada.
This year we offer the following submission formats:
Interactive poster
Paper
Workshop/Debate
Symposium
Authors should select the presentation format that best suits the work.
iPED sees all presentation formats as equally important. All submissions are
double-blind peer reviewed by our international panel
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/researchnet/d/613/a/4617
Best wishes,
Virginia King
iPED 2008 Conference Convenor
Centre for the Study of Higher Education Coventry University
CV1 2TT
Tel: +44(0)24 7679 2313
www.coventry.ac.uk/iPED2008
Alternatively contact:
info.iped at coventry.ac.uk
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AUQA News – February 2008
The AUQA News for February 2008 is now available on the AUQA website.
Please peruse via the link below:
http://www.auqa.edu.au/aboutauqa/auqanews/
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Go8 Newsletter
The latest Go8 newsletter is available at www.go8.edu.au
Stories include:
Go8 welcomes new board member, Professor Paul Greenfield AO
Australian associate membership of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory
(EMBL)
Go8 Chair to address the National Press Club on 2 April
Go8 PhD forum on 6 March
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