HERDSA connectVolume 43 No 2 AUTUMN 2021 The magazine of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia Inside Asia Pacific headlines, assessment security and academic integrity, building a sustainable future, university integrity at a tipping point, essential reading IJAD and HERD, an authentic learning experience, Helen Sword’s farewell column. Kong branch Sustainable Transformation webinar and from the Singapore Special Interest Group in development that will hopefully lead to another HERDSA branch in the Asia-Pacific. Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in higher education through a new global policy framework to support higher education institutions is possible according to Maryna Lakhno, and say hello to our new Asia-Pacific Headlines section courtesy of John Ross and Times Higher Education. The report recommending public policy reform for critical educational infrastructure is explained by Sally Kift, who offers insights into a fit-for-purpose AQF. Essential readings are from IJAD, HERD, our new online journal ASRHE and a special issue of the HERD journal Indigenous Voices which highlights the power of scholarly Indigenous voices, conversations about the fairness of university structures, and the value of Indigenous Knowledges in curriculum. University From the Editor structures are also significant in a hard-hitting article from Robert Cannon who reviews the ICAC-OPI 2020 integrity survey of the three South Australia public universities and The ready availability of essay mills and contract cheating asks if change will result from the report. services are an increasing concern across higher education and our Feature writer Phillip Dawson considers balancing We say goodbye to two of our writers in this issue. Many the pursuit of cheat-proof assessment with the aim of working thanks to Helen Sword for her valuable advice on academic with students so they want to, and know how to, avoid writing in her WORDCRAFT column, and to outgoing cheating. The increasing use of online assessment is of course President Denise Chalmers for her two years of service. related to the covid pandemic which still feels ever-present The last word is again with covid which impacts on attendance in everything we do, including this edition of CONNECT. at our Brisbane conference in July. If you can make it to Check out Student View for the article from Michelle Walker the conference please come and say hello and let me know who reflects on a remarkable journey through supervision how you would like to showcase your own teaching-related across the two catastrophes of earthquake and covid, and read activities in our magazine. Lucasz Swiatek's empathic viewpoint on the impact of covid on academic work over the last year of upheaval. The effects [email protected] of the pandemic on various policy issues are highlighted by Marcia Devlin in Policy Perspectives who reminds us that HERDSA CONNECT, the magazine of the Higher covid has brought into focus the understanding that change Education Research and Development Society of requires commitment to progressive policy and action. Australasia, is delivered in hard copy to all HERDSA members three times per year. Contributions are HERDSA’s international links continue to increase into welcome and may be submitted to the editor for consideration. the Asia-Pacific region. We have reports from the Hong Editor • Deb Clarke, NSW, Australia HERDSA CONNECT is available Maureen Bell • Christy Collis, QLD, Australia online at www.herdsa.org.au [email protected] • Julia Hallas, New Zealand Advertising rates • Katrina Strampel, WA, Australia Please contact the HERDSA office Editorial support • Wendy Green, TAS, Australia Sally Ashton-Hay Cover photo: Yeganeh Baghi Lukasz Swiatek HERDSA Office Desert Rose team member, Solar Jennifer Ungaro (Office Manager) Decathlon, Dubai. HERDSA Publications Portfolio PO Box 6106, Hammondville NSW 2172 Wendy Green, Chair Phone: +61 2 9771 3911 Design and Layout Maureen Bell Email: [email protected] Rachel Williams Allan Goody Printed by Peter Kandlbinder The views expressed by authors in HERDSA Instant Colour Press, Canberra Eva Heinrich CONNECT are those of the authors and www.herdsa.org.au do not necessarily reflect the views of HERDSA Executive HERDSA. Written material from HERDSA • Denise Chalmers, President, CONNECT may be reproduced, providing WA, Australia its source is acknowledged. • Elizabeth Levin, VIC, Australia • Rob Wass, New Zealand ISSN 2209-3877 (print) • Kogi Naidoo, NSW, Australia ISSN 2209-3885 (online) • Barbara Kensington-Miller, Issue dates New Zealand January, May, and September. Contents 2 From the President Denise Chalmers Feature 3 Balancing assessment security and academic integrity 03 Phillip Dawson Community 4 Accolades 4 Farewell Theda Thomas 5 Who’s who in HERDSA 09 6 Around the branches 7 HERDSA New Zealand 8 STEM 8 Student view 9 The HERDSA Fellowship 10 Same, same, but different 20 05 Perspectives 11 Asia Pacific headlines 12 Policy perspectives 13 Building a sustainable future 14 University integrity at a tipping point? 16 Take stock and take care 17 A fit-for-contemporary- 10 22 purpose qualifications framework 18 Essential reading IJAD 18 From the ASRHE editorial desk 19 From the HERD editorial desk 19 Essential reading HERD 20 Indigenous voices in higher education 21 Wordcraft Showcase 22 Cross-discipline authentic learning Reviews 24 Educational developers HERDSA conference Brisbane 2021 thinking allowed Registrations now open www.herdsa.org.au/conference HERDSA CONNECT International Women’s Day who have identified needs and gaps and set up programs to support women, children and men from Indigenous, refugee, regional and low socio-economic backgrounds. More broadly, women and men have set up, and support, arts programs and kids sports. It really is impossible to capture the value, range and extent of those who give generously of their time and talent to service. So to all of our members who support, contribute, donate and serve well beyond what is documented on your service portfolios, I acknowledge and thank you for that. For all the service that you contribute professionally to your discipline and related associations, and to your universities and institutions by serving on committees and working well From the President beyond your position descriptions and just as generously given, I acknowledge and thank you, for these are just as important for enriching the lives of the This is my final contribution to HERDSA The documentation of service is not students and colleagues the communities CONNECT as President with Professor limited to those in academic roles, of our work in which we live. Kogi Naidoo the new President of with professional and support staff HERDSA from July 2021. Kogi has also expected to detail their service Finally, I would like to thank my been a member of HERDSA and the contribution. While service in these colleagues and friends in HERDSA who Executive for many years so brings a instances is typically identified as taking give so generously of your time and wealth of experience to the role for the place in the institution, the profession expertise – the HERDSA executive, the benefit of the members. It has been a or industry and the community within officers, the editors, reviewers, branch great honour to serve as your President, the context of work, the meaning and committees, conference organisers and albeit with a significant proportion of application of service is very much wider members – for your service and support. the time being disrupted by a global and more generous. It is on the wider and Denise Chalmers pandemic where we all clocked up many generous contributions that constitute denise.chalmers @uwa.edu.au hours and developed skills using a range service that I want to reflect on. of online communication tools. In some ways it allowed more of us to connect I am continually impressed by so many with colleagues from across the regions of my HERDSA colleagues who give so who were able to join in webinars generously of their time and expertise offered by branches that would normally to support professional and community be restricted to the local members. initiatives. Some are related to their The sharing and support that has been professional lives and some are personal extended across boundaries and beyond programs for which they have a passion, often with the two intertwined. our normal spheres of work has led me The Higher Education Research to reflect on the word ‘service’. This and Development Society of We see this generosity too in the wider is a topic of wider conversation on the Australasia is a scholarly society community with volunteers in the SES meaning of service and who does it in for people committed to the and the country fire brigades, Red Cross, the context of the British royal family, advancement of higher and Lions, Rotary, life savers and so many tertiary education. but I won’t go there. more that all swing into action when HERDSA encourages and Service or engagement are terms that are there is an emergency and support is disseminates research on used to define categories of academic needed. These are the very visible faces teaching and learning and higher work – typically teaching, research and of service and for every one we see, education development and service/engagement – where at each there are scores of others behind that works to build strong academic communities. performance review, achievements in we don’t see who are providing just as each category are reported and expected valuable and necessary services. I met www.herdsa.org.au to meet often ill-defined expectations. many impressive women at a recent 2 AUTUMN 2021 HERDSA CONNECT FEATURE criticisms of remote proctoring from an academic integrity perspective, in that it might create a culture of distrust, or that it might normalise surveillance of students. However, many Australian universities have adopted remote proctored exams because during the pandemic they were seen as the most secure way to offer something akin to a traditional exam.