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ATN National Symposium on GenAI Graduate Skills and Employability from Australian Technology Network Fri 21st March 12.30pm AEDT

The ATN grouping of universities includes Curtin University, Deakin University, RMIT University, The University of Newcastle, University of South Australia (UniSA), and University of Technology Sydney (UTS). This promising event highlights the expertise and perspectives of senior leaders from these institutions relating to GenAI workplace skills development and its impact on accreditation and professional standards, among other things.

30 years of teaching the teacher: What are the long term impacts of Graduate Certificates in Higher Education within Australia and New Zealand from CAULLT/Deakin

Have you undertaken any of the sorts of formal accredited qual related to teaching in higher ed that are commonly offered (though rarely mandated) by universities in Australia? This vitally important study led by the Council of Australasian University Leaders in Learning and Teaching wants your help in completing a survey to shed some light on the value of this training.

Game-based learning for postgraduates: empirical study of an educational game for research skills from Daisy Abbott

The development of research skills in postgrad students is something which is fairly widely understood to be something which sits firmly in the ‘could do better’ bucket at many universities. Abbott writes about her work developing a physical card game and using game-based learning principles to make this learning more effective. This Bluesky post (Skeet? Bloop?) includes a link to the paper and a pithy 2 min YouTube video explaining the project

Trust-building as inherent to academic development practice from IJAD

The idea of trust as a central part of relationship building between academics and the third space practitioners (academic developers, educational technologists, learning designers) was a core part of my recently submitted doctoral thesis. It’s reassuring to see this affirmed in this special issue of the International Journal of Academic Development, with this opening editorial from Pleschová, Sutherland, Felten, Forsyth, and Wright. But, you know, would it have killed you to put this out a month earlier for me? 🙂