Making use of #feedback is *tough*. But with the right knowledge, skills & tools, learners are empowered to get more value from the feedback they get. So we created www.feedbackempowertools.com, with free resources for educators and learners. Check it out & share! @kieranballoo.bsky.social #edusky

New equity in teaching survey is dropping as part of our ACSES-supported project, "Supporting academics with inclusive & equitable curricula, teaching and learning"!

What a pleasure to think about academic blogging – or “doing” knowledge translation – with @kieranballoo.bsky.social and Alana Piper in #PublicHumanities, a brand new journal ed. @zoebulaitis.bsky.social and Jeffrey R. Wilson. Check out our top tips for getting started! ⬇️ doi.org/10.1017/pub....

Nobel Prize for whoever writes a programme that automatically renames all older saved versions of a file ‘not-final’ when you save a version with ‘final’ in the name.

Did you know? By replacing your coffee with green tea, you can lose up to 92% of what little joy you still have left in your life.

New paper in @herdjournal.bsky.social with Marion Heron & @sallybaker.bsky.social. We explore the role (or lack thereof) of academic oracy (academic speaking and listening) in enabling education / pathways in Australia. OPEN ACCESS:

when i submit an article manuscript for peer review

@kieranballoo.bsky.social and I wrote a chapter in this book, released today! #Teaching, #wellbeing, #humanizing #pedagogies www.bloomsbury.com/au/reclaimin...

Enabling education is a public good, a true legacy of Whitlam-era policies that assert that higher education is for everyone. Emma Hamilton, Matthew Bunn, Kieran Balloo and Sally Baker discuss FEE-FREE Uni Ready. loom.ly/NkzLxm0

Policies on turnaround time do not predict NSS. This definitely emphasises my own experience that NSS improvements are best achieved by hyper-local considerations rather than pan-University ones www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

That exciting moment when I realize I did *not* finish my coffee.

How do we continue to make feedback effective as students increasingly move away from studying on campus, with fewer opportunities for dialogue with lecturers (& other students)? @drrobnash.bsky.social & I ponder this question @timeshighered.bsky.social: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/stude...

I requested an article from 1985 yesterday vis Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and it’s already a PDF in my inbox. At first it seems miraculous but I know that it’s because of libraries’ long-standing resource sharing agreements & the work of many hands. Thank you, ILL colleagues!

This year, be the nodder in the audience every presenter deserves

In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change

My hottest take for the end of the year is that it is immensely more satisfying to cross things off a to-do list written on paper than any electronic equivalent.

Headline of the Year contest starts tomorrow. Here are the winners from previous contests:

Incredibly excited to be part of a team funded by ACSES to investigate how to support academics towards inclusive curriculum! Led by Chris Browne and Sally Baker of ANU, with a few of my fav Bluesky friends too @sarahoshea.bsky.social @kieranballoo.bsky.social www.acses.edu.au/2025-26-larg...

My regular suggestion: At the end of the semester why not reach out to someone whose work you taught and let them know? These days we have very little idea who teaches our stuff and in what contexts. It takes almost no time and can really make their day.

Special Issue Launch! 📗🚀 ‘Reimagining Higher Education Learning Spaces: Assembling Theory, Methods, and Practice’ Co-edited by Professor Sam Elkington and Dr Jill Dickinson. 🗓️ Wednesday 29 January 2025 Online 7-9pm Australian EST / 8-10am UK Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2025-speci... 🎟️

This sounds unbelievably timely!

Trying out this new coffee alternative called “sleep”

before coffee: I hate everything after coffee: I hate everything but nervouser

TEQSA just released their #GenAI for #HE toolkit that summarises best practices from the Request for Information. Responses from 202 Australian institutions, organised into three sections: Process, People and Practice. www.teqsa.gov.au/guides-resou...

Can anyone help me find a post about AI-generated text in online qual survey studies? I saw a post on here the other day about this as an issue, and possibly how to tackle it -- if anyone can help me find it that would me much appreciated! 🙏

A child at 10: · Loses 4 baby teeth a year · Knows the complete date · Can name the months of the yr in order ·Can read & understand a paragraph of complex sentences ·Has developed skills in addition, subtraction ·Has some skills in multiplying & division, And, in Aust, can go to prison #RaiseTheAge

Important findings about the value of immersive block models for equity students.

It blows my mind that NASA is able to receive data from 4.67 billion miles away, but I lose Wi-Fi signal in my kitchen.

Given that two of my case studies were supporting teaching & scholarship and b̶e̶i̶n̶g̶ v̶e̶r̶y̶ l̶o̶u̶d̶ o̶n̶ t̶h̶e̶ i̶n̶t̶e̶r̶n̶e̶t̶ open educational resources, it is only appropriate that I have uploaded my PFHEA application to the OSF should it be helpful osf.io/5vydn #AcademicSky #EduSky

Chatbots don’t make sense. They make words. 🤖

The hellsite is trying to sell me Premium for 40% off. Do you think it's starting to get a little desperate?

Day 1 of running a 3-day writing retreat down and just doing some light reflection on my pre-retreat planning... 🤔

How could university placements be more inclusive for diverse learners? Through proper pedagogical design, we argue in this paper led by @molliedollin.bsky.social. Now published in the latest issue of Studies in Higher Education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Apologies for the late response, instead of spending three minutes answering your email I ignored it and felt anxious for two weeks

Treat AI like it’s software… because it is. Transcription, coding, document processing, image recognition etc. are all useful for educators. I’ll post this week about using AI as software and not treating it like a human. #artificialintelligence #aieducation #aiedu #aiined #aiinedu

Join Kieran Balloo, Susan Hopkins, Lisa Duffy and myself for the next #NAEEA webinar in feedback literacy in enabling education!

Welcome the newest educators with a follow and say hi! @ms-doig.bsky.social @craigaskin.bsky.social @australianare.bsky.social @mrvanw.bsky.social @natashainoz.bsky.social @corinne142.bsky.social @rayedish.bsky.social @christianprice.bsky.social #edusky #eduskyAU go.bsky.app/QRAUqfc

This one amazing trick with ARC applications ... write your proposal in a Word doc with standard "narrow" margins. Then paste into the uni-supplied template which has 0.5cm margins... and voila! your proposal is no longer too long.

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content. That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂

Want to learn/teach R? I'm still actively developing my package of learnr tutorials at github.com/profandyfiel... Just added a tutorial on multilevel models and repeated measures.

Testing out polling on Bluesky. What reference manager do you use? 1️⃣ Zotero 2️⃣ Mendeley 3️⃣ Endnote 4️⃣ Other 📊 Show results

Infinite academics with infinite typewriters would eventually complete a full paragraph without checking their phone

By popular demand… the Guardian is officially on BlueSky @theguardian.com

starter pack of academic imposters and it's just you

Bluesky: City On The Grow!

Twitter is dead. Long live BlueSky. iandunt.substack.com/p/twitter-is...

A starter pack (Nov 24) to connect colleagues interested in various aspects of Student Experience within HE & TE (based on Bluesky searches). We can differentiate by Student Success, Transitions, Engagement & Partnership etc. when more colleagues join us here. Who have I missed? go.bsky.app/JUDCMFV