I had so many neurospicy 🌶️ people come up after my research presentation and my #herdsa2025 keynote - we had such awesome chats - I feel like we need to figure out how to make this a thing 🤔

The fabulous Christine Slade from UQ sharing about re-defining #AcademicIntegrity - what do students think? #herdsa2025

Thank you everyone! I hope you all had a fab time at my #herdsa2025 keynote on how we need to all channel our inner influencer to build trust and relationships to help support student engagement and learning! I can’t wait to see all of your baby steps to building #influence ❤️

Emma Mills from UNSW kicking off day 3 of #herdsa2025 sharing about #sustainability and embedding the #SDGs through a community of practice of EFAs.

Also - a big 👏 for the unsung hero of #herdsa2025 - the amazing Jason Wong from ACU - who makes sure as many of us as possible have a good photo of us sharing our expertise and being generally awesome 😎

Congrats to the #herdsa2025 social team for a great conference dinner! Highlight was when @andrewjnorton.bsky.social said yes to a selfie! Amazing food, venue was great and the art activity was 🤌. Can’t wait to see the Photo Booth pics!

Alex Steel from UNSW encourages a practical yet undervalued reflection for educators: - Why am I offering this assessment? - What course learning outcomes does it support? - What am I hoping they will learn? #HERDSA2025

The #herdsa2025 session on integrating humour is off to a good start 😂 with A/Prof Alice Brown

IG famous therapy dogs at #herdsa2025!

If you’re coming to my #herds2025 keynote tomorrow and want to check out a bit about what I do - you can check out my IG www.instagram.com/amandalovest... Same handle on YT (longer form video) and TikTok

This slide from @andrewjnorton.bsky.social at his #herdsa2025 keynote shows the tumultuous time for international students and policy - esp as they have become a political football.

Even @andrewjnorton.bsky.social is on a short 1 year contract - hard for ECAs who roll from short contract to contract to feel they can have academic freedom (but Andrew is close enough to retirement to feel secure to speak out on key issues) #herdsa2025

👏 @molliedollin.bsky.social with an argument for why we should be interested in policy, in her introduction of @andrewjnorton.bsky.social as the Wednesday keynote at #HERDSA2025

‘It is going to be very hard to build back the confidence of staff that they will be rewarded for bringing in external revenue’ www.canberratimes.com.au/story/901090...

In one session about #GenAI mapping and integration by Mark Ian Jones from #unsw and as part of Q&A - talking how they’ve made assessment related to Process worth 40% of the grade in one subject, up from 10%. All part of assessing the process of learning. #herdsa2025

@guycurtis10.bsky.social at #herdsa2025 sharing 20 yr longitudinal study on prevalence of #plagiarism in Australian HE. Most forms of plagiarism are trending downward, student understanding of what is plagiarism is up and they know it is serious. Aligned with ⬆️ mandatory education and training.

A great turn out at the #herdsa2025 NSW branch meeting! Come down to room 2 or find David van Reyk to get involved - volunteers needed for the committee!

Collins Fleischner at #herdsa2025 sharing work on the Education Focused roles in HE. The literature shows we are overworked and face role clarity challenges, but no evidence that EFs are overall better teachers, improve educational quality.

Rowena Harper: Higher education institutions must upskill the professional learning of educators. And educators need to COMMIT to this upskilling as well. Will they do it? Appears to be a failure to engage and learn about AI amongst the broader academy. #herdsa2025

Using GenAI has become normalised - in everything - Internet search, apps etc. Channeling @jasonmlodge.bsky.social here: We need to remind students that LEARNING IS HARD #herdsa2025

💯 with this from Rowena Harper at #herdsa2025 keynote. If a student doesn’t meet a learning outcome for the degree - should they pass? We also need to invest in systems (people and tech) to track this, and allow students to evaluate their own progress.

So, we're off! Rowena Harper the first #HERDSA2025 keynote. She's talking about productive and ethical use of AI.

If you’re just arriving to #herdsa2025 - there is plenty of room at the keynote on the far left side of the room at the front!

Since I woke up at 5am Perth time (7am AEST) - I thought I might as well give myself jelly legs 😂. If you’re here for #herdsa25 and missing your regular reformer class - Heartbeat High do casual visits 💪

#herdsa2025 here I come! (It is so far from Brissie to Perth that I’m wearing my compression socks 🧦 🤣)

Shout out to the best guy in #GenAI #highered today @dannydotliu.bsky.social - I’ve been dipping in and out while dealing with GenAI cheating/misconduct cases - the day has been brilliant. Thank you to USyd for putting this all on FREE. #OzHE

#highered community! I’m looking for a keynote for a conference in Chicago - someone who is researching #GenZ and how they learn. For a group of uni/college educators. I know the big names - but I’m wondering if there might be a great up-and-coming person who might be deserving of a spotlight!

I just accidentally discovered the maximum on the number of tabs you can have open in Safari on an iPhone - 500 😂 I honestly have no idea what all the tabs are - I’m going scorched earth and closing them all! #adhd

A student failed & lodged a review request stating that they were *certain* their responses deserved more marks - a very specific mark in fact. I review the paper, as @cathellis13.bsky.social & @ccguerilla.bsky.social often say - you see a loose thread 🧵 and start pulling … #academicintegrity

No ❌ a Reddit thread from r/professors showing that someone has gone back to a paper and pencil exam to test whether students “really know anything” is not a valid reason to have all subjects go back to in person paper and pencil exams as the best form of assessment 🤦‍♀️ #HE #assessment

I swear that the #ConcurAuditor makes claiming your expenses so hard that you just give up and pay for them yourself (& as a former auditor - I’d like to think I’m fairly detail-oriented, I know the process, understand the rules etc). I guess that’s one way for universities to save funds 🤷‍♀️

Me at a meeting where there is a suggestion to introduce 50% invigilation to each and every subject. Apparently seeing pics of other unis near us with students in big exam halls with written papers is making some colleagues jealous #highered

Applied learning at its best - I’ve got a flight delay and am watching our best business students from UTS compete in the Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge in Vegas! www.youtube.com/live/80sGtRI...

@jasonmlodge.bsky.social echos @cathellis13.bsky.social - we need to figure out what to LET GO of in HE programs and curriculum. This is a real challenge when T&R academics are protective over content & gain significant time efficiency that is re-allocated to research #ascilite2024

“Learners need to be good learners first, before they can be good learners with AI” @jasonmlodge.bsky.social #ascilite2024

@jasonmlodge.bsky.social is a member of UQ academic board to advocate for appropriate decision making and governance. Need more edtech people involved! Academic board, Teaching and Learning Committee, your faculty TLC, your department or school TLC #RunForSomething #ascilite2024

@jasonmlodge.bsky.social tells us we have 21 senses #ascilite2024 www.sensorytrust.org.uk/blog/how-man...

What are you going to advocate for? @jasonmlodge.bsky.social #ascilite2024 sketchnote

The importance of research-informed decision-making IMO underscores the importance of senior leaders to have research (and maybe even T&L!) backgrounds and active engagement in research production... #ascilite2024

@jasonmlodge.bsky.social invites us all to be advocates for HE, edtech etc by writing for Needed Now in L&T - #ascilite2024 Subscribe needednowlt.substack.com

The calculator and GenAI are not the same #ascilite2024 (fun fact, I almost failed intro finance because I struggled deciphering how to use the calculator 😂) GenAI does not feel like a tool like a calculator

Gems in this report says @jasonmlodge.bsky.social nsc.anu.edu.au/content-cent... #ascilite2024

@jasonmlodge.bsky.social refers to a framework for schools - link to the work #ascilite2024 www.education.gov.au/schooling/re...

The blue ok button is back - but @thomcochrane.bsky.social came to the rescue #ascilite2024

We’re about to have the Roy Kent of AI in higher education give the final keynote of #ascilite2024 @jasonmlodge.bsky.social

What a fun night with friends at Camp ASCILITE #ascilite2024 conference dinner at the Melb Museum 💃🪩

My entry for the #ascilite2024 dinner photo comp - get your best shot with a dinosaur! @asciliteconf.bsky.social @ascilite.bsky.social

Scan the QR code on L1 to enter the competition for a free entry to #ascilite2025 in Adelaide! #ascilite2024

Interesting research from Jess and Andrea Monash about video and written feedback - video gives students more positive emotions vs written, but video doesn’t reduce negative emotions. #ascilite2024

@drjot.bsky.social has a great thread about the panel on AI literacy - bummed to miss this because I was presenting, but glad I’ve got Jo’s commentary on BlueSky