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Reflecting on HERDSA 2024
Colleagues will soon be heading off to share initiatives, gain inspiration and network at the 2025 Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) conference in Perth. We asked some recipients of the 2024 Learning and Teaching Advancement Grants to share their highlights and key learning from HERDSA 2024.
This is how I teach

This month we spoke with Professor Dale Stephens from the Adelaide Law School, Faculty of Arts. Business, Law and Economics. Dale’s approach to motivating students to learn was recognised by a 2024 Commendation for the Enhancement of, and Innovation in Student Learning.
With AI, students are heading upstream—we need to meet them there.

When generative AI arrived with ChatGPT in late 2022, its perceived threat to education was, in hindsight, quite simple: its ability to create authentic-looking text disrupted what we previously thought were robust assessment methods.
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