As the authors identify, writing an #OER produces many of the same opportunities – accessibility, flexibility – and challenges – lack of recognition, broken URLs – common to academic blogging, drawing on my work with @kieranballoo.bsky.social and Alana Piper. Read here ⬇️ doi.org/10.1017/pub....

We ask authors to engage with the ideas and provocations raised within the guest editors' Point of Departure article 🚨 Relational pedagogies in an age of #GenAI: a critical conversation By Karen Gravett, Naomi Winstone and Kieran Balloo www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Relational pedagogies in an age of GenAI: a critical conversation

Published in Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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🚨 SPECIAL ISSUE: CALL FOR PAPERS! 🚨 Seeking abstracts for a special issue on relational pedagogies in an age of #GenAI See full details via the link below. Abstract deadline: 20th April 2026. teachinginhighereducation.wordpress.com/2026/03/24/s...

Special issue: call for papers

Relational pedagogies in an age of GenAI Special issue editors: Karen Gravett, Naomi Winstone, and Kieran Balloo This special issue will look at relational pedagogies in contemporary digitalised hi…

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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:

Awareness, understandings, and teaching practices surrounding academic oracy in university preparation pathways

University preparation pathways are an important equity mechanism for opening access to higher education to under-represented students. A vital focus of pathways education is on the academic litera...

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when i submit an article manuscript for peer review

a woman in a black jacket says " i 'll see you again in 25 years "

ALT: a woman in a black jacket says " i 'll see you again in 25 years "

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

Reclaiming the Teaching Discourse in Higher Education

This book examines university teaching to encourage a move away from the singular lens of neoliberalism towards more a pluralistic stance that inspires a health…

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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

What’s in a name? Enabling education in Australia

Our terminology matters in framing enabling education, particularly for students who have experienced educational disadvantage.

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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....

Universities’ policies on feedback speed do not meaningfully predict students’ satisfaction with assessment and feedback

It is widely believed that an essential property of feedback’s effectiveness is its timeliness, and students frequently report untimely feedback as a significant source of dissatisfaction in their ...

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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...

As students become more ‘distant’, can feedback still hit the mark?

Whether they are behind a computer screen or behind bars, all students need support with making effective use of feedback – whether or not the process is a two-way street

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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...

2025-26 Large Grants awarded - ACSES

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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... 🎟️

2025 Special Issue Launch ‘Reimagining Higher Education Learning Spaces'

Are you interested in what the future could look like for learning spaces in Higher Education? Hear from contributors to the HERD 2025 SI.

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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! 🙏