[Herdsa] [HERDSA]: News on Wed 15th July 2009

[Roger Landbeck]

Dear List Members

First congratulations to Helen, Janet and the team at Charles Darwin
University for the HERDSA 2009 conference held last week in Darwin. It was
great. So we look forward to 2010 in Melbourne from the 6-9th July. See

http://conference.herdsa.org.au/2010/

This week we welcome a few newcomers to the list from the Darwin conference,
the remainder will be subscribed in a few weeks. I hope you find it useful
in your work.

So this week we have:

Latest News from the ALTC including the names of the 2009 Citation winners.

Forthcoming Conferences and Symposiums.

Position Vacant at the University of Woollong gong.

The AUQA Report for the University of Western Australia.

Information on Education Journals.

A Note about the World Higher Education Conference organised by UNESCO.




1) ALTC(Australian Learning and Teaching Council) News

ALTC Citation winners announced

University and workplace success aided by career development learning

Research into new learning technologies 

Resources for law teachers

Note The full stories of theses topics can be found on the ALTC web site 

www.altc.edu.au

Key dates...
17 July
Using Web 2.0 for Online Teaching Workshops, Canberra

Throughout August
ALTC Citations ceremonies

4-5 August
Developing the Knowledge Economy Forum, Wollongong

 ALTC Citation winners announced 
Leading Australian university teaching and support staff will be honoured
next month when they receive prestigious Australian Learning and Teaching
Council Citations at six ceremonies held across the nation. 

More than $2 million will be presented to 206 individuals and teams as part
of the Australian Government’s commitment to quality learning and teaching,
with each citation worth $10,000. This year a record number of institutions
received citations. Full story 
 
 University and workplace success aided by career development learning 
Australian Learning and Teaching Council-funded research released this week
by the National Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services shows the
critical role that career development learning plays in positive student
transitions to university and the workforce. 

According to project leader, Martin Smith from the University of Wollongong,
the study identified the central role career development learning has in
helping students to navigate their way through their university experience.
Full story 
 
 
 Research into new learning technologies 
New publications from the Educating the Net Generation project, funded by
the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, are now available online.

The collaborative project involving researchers from the University of
Melbourne, the University of Wollongong and Charles Sturt University
investigated student and staff use of new technologies. A number of case
studies were included in which new technologies were implemented in a range
of learning settings across the three participating universities. Full story

 
 
 Resources for law teachers 
The Australian Learning and Teaching Council has been working with the
Council of Australian Law Deans to produce an exemplar suite of
publications. 

Learning and teaching in the discipline of law: Achieving and sustaining
excellence in a changed and changing environment, the final report for the
ALTC-funded discipline study led by CALD will be released later this month.
Full story 


2) FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIUMS.

THE FUTURE OF LEARNING DESIGN
Thursday 10th December 2009
University of Wollongong

Learning design encompasses a range of perspectives on educational design
that seek to enhance student learning by focussing on understanding and
supporting educational design practice, particularly amongst school and
higher education teachers.

This one-day event will bring together the latest research and development
in learning design through a programme of invited and submitted papers.
Papers must be submitted for peer review by 7 September 2009 (see details at
http://sites.google.com/site/2009uowldconf/)
.

The conference is timed to coincide with the AARE, LAMS and ascilite
conferences.

Themes:
- research and development in learning design approaches and standards
- understanding and supporting teachers' educational design practice
- advancing learning design and pedagogical patterns

Keynote speakers:
- Professor Rob Koper, Head of CELSTEC, Open University of the Netherlands
- Dr Isobel Falconer, Caledonian Academy, Glasgow Caledonian University

All paper submission and enquiries to lkosta at uow.edu.au.

SRHE Annual Conference, 8-10 December 2009

SRHE Postgraduate & Newer Researchers’ Conference, 7 December 2009

Newport, South Wales, UK

-Abstract submissions

 

Dear Colleagues,

May I just remind you that the deadline for the submission of Abstracts for
the SRHE Conference taking place on 8-10 December 2009 is Friday 24 July
2009.

The conference has already attracted a great deal of interest and range of
submissions. We have very stimulating keynote speakers attending to present
a breadth of challenging perspectives and once again an excellent spread of
social and other networking events, this time all under one roof at the
Celtic Manor Resort in South Wales, UK. This super venue offers us excellent
space and a variety of venues for our various events.

This year we are planning the programme with a very particular concern to
provide all accepted authors with an acceptable length of time to present
their work and for discussion, whether this is in individual presentations,
group discussions, symposia or poster sessions.

The deadline for abstract submissions for the Postgraduate and Newer
Researchers Conference (PGNR) on 7 December is Monday 17 August 2009.

You will find all the information you need about these events, and about
paper submission requirements and registration for both conferences at the
SRHE Conference website-details below.
http://www.srhe.ac.uk/conference2009/index.asp

On the last day of submission for SRHE conferences there is always huge
traffic on the website could make your own process slower than normal, so we
do encourage you to try and avoid this by getting your submissions in as
soon as possible before the deadline.

We look forward to seeing many of you at the conferences this year and with
such a super venue secured we hope that you will be encouraged to make SRHE
Conference a priority in what we fully recognise are difficult financial
times for everyone in Higher Education. Despite having improved the quality
of our conference location considerably this year we have held our
conference rates very close to our 2008 rates, within £10/£15 max on
packages in the majority of cases.

If you have any queries at all please email the SRHE office on the
srheconferenceteam at srhe.ac.uk email address.
All best wishes

Helen Perkins

Director

PLEASE NOTE THE SOCIETY’S NEW BUSINESS ADDRESS AND TELEPHONE NUMBERS

Society for Research into Higher Education

44 Bedford Row 

London WC1R 4LL







UNESCO held its second World Conference on Higher Education in Paris last
week. The biggest event on the global higher education calendar since the
first world conference in 1998, the four-day meeting attracted 1,200
delegates from 150 countries. They debated current and future issues in
higher education in the areas of social responsibility, access, equity and
quality, internationalisation, regionalisation and globalisation, and
learning, research and innovation. There was also a special focus on Africa.




States finally agree on World Conference communiqué
David Jobbins, Yojana Sharma and Karen MacGregor
After long behind-the-scenes political skirmishes, 150 governments attending
the UNESCO World Conference unanimously adopted a communiqué acknowledging
higher education as a ‘public good’ and calling on countries not to stop
investing in the sector during the global economic crisis, among calls for
action on other issues.
Full report on the University World News site


http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20090709115811780


 
 
 
 
 

New reports and resources
The following reports and resources are now available on the ALTC website:

- Development, deployment and educational assessment of advanced immersive
learning environments for process engineering 

- The PHENC project: Interactive video analysis to develop learning and
assessment of university students’ practice 

- Innovation with Quality Assurance: online curriculum development for the
University of New England's multi-institutional, collaborative programs in
German at New England, James Cook and Newcastle universities

- Working with Workshops has been prepared for ALTC fellows and project
teams to provide practical information for designing and planning events.
 
 
 

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