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Professional Development Opportunities in Educational Technology and Education For November 17, 2025 to May 31, 2026, Edition #54 from Clayton Wright

I’ve shared these guides/calendars? from Clayton Wright before but if you are looking to see what conferences/workshops/etc in the education and technology space are coming up, it is pretty hard to beat. This 362 page (185423 words) Word doc covers a very wide array of events and a quick ctrl+F told me that short of the ACODE TEL Benchmarking activity next year, there isn’t much happening in my hometown in the next few months. No hits for ‘third space’, 11 for technologist, 9 for learning design. Certainly a handy barometer of the sector. (Most of the learning design entries relate to quals)

TikTok in Higher Education: A Learning Tool to Connect With Industry and Develop Students' Digital Skills from Innovative Higher Education

I felt a little silly the first time I suggested that video apps like TikTok offered some very interesting functionality for education - particularly in terms of the ability to co-create and build on existing content. This article from Lopez-Carril, Carpenter, Watanabe and Ribeiro, exploring its use as an intervention in sport management courses in a Spanish university, indicates that I may not have been far from the mark. This goes into a little more detail and provides rather a lot more evidence than I did at a work learning and teaching day and is well worth a read

Time, emotions and moral judgements: how university students position GenAI within their study from Higher Education Research & Development

The ever prolific Australian Higher Ed GenAI mafia strike again, this time with an article in HERD reporting on focus group discussions with 79 HE students. Bearman, Fawns, Corbin, Henderson, Yiang, Oberg, Walton and Matthews find that student perspectives on the use of GenAI are nuanced and it isn’t all about cheating. They also worry about the harm they are doing to their skill and knowledge development in using these tools.

Do audience response systems truly enhance learning and motivation in higher education? A systematic review from Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Clickers! Remember them? Long since superseded by Kahoot, Mentimeter, Socrative and similar polling platforms but all part of the same beautiful learning and teaching fabric. Serrada-Sotil, Martinez and Granado-Peinado look at the impact of all of these classroom interactivity generators in this systematic review covering literature between 2018-2024. They find that many of the associated studies suffer from poor methodology and little consensus was found in terms of the value of these educational technologies. It does nonetheless provide a decent overview of scholarship in this field.

TELedvisors Oct 2025 Webinar – Launch Third Space Symposium Proceedings Thurs 27th Nov 12 noon AEDT from The TELedvisors Network

I have been saying to myself lately that if i never see the inside of another proceedings raw file, it will be too soon but fortunately I have some delightful co-editors (Penny, Elizabeth and Sharon, take a bow) and I’m now looking forward to sharing this with the world. It captures a sampling of contributions to the Third Space Symposium that we ran at this time last year, which brought more than 70 contributions about the practices and experiences of higher education third space practitioners to more than 500 event participants. Come see what the fuss is about.