Plenty of insights and calls for impact from #HERDSA2025 (Higher Education Research Society of Australasia) conference. Summarised for my future self, and maybe useful for others too.

✔️𝐂𝐨-𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐀𝐈
✔️𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠?
✔️𝐁𝐞𝐲𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 (𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭-𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐞)

Uni student accused of using AI in assignment fights to clear his name A nursing student desperate to prove he did not use prohibited artificial intelligence software to complete a workbook says his reputation is on the line, but Murdoch University is holding firm.

And in unrelated news - if any #HERDSA2025 peeps are still out there, this is topical given the number of presentations this week in this space www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Whew, made @amandalovestoaudit.bsky.social 's #HERDSA2025 mash up dinner post. Also taking full credit for planting the seed for her to get selfie with Andrew Norton ;-)

And............. normal service has resumed. Back at the desk in the office on a 2oC morning in Perth after 4 invigorating and inspiring days of #HERDSA2025 *sigh*

If you squint really carefully, you can see me in the background 😎 Great keynote on the last day of #HERDSA2025

Check out our full #HERDSA2025 presentation, now available on YouTube 🎉

youtu.be/o9Uq6x5ITZY

Who's your go-to follow or read for keeping up with AI and education? I'm always looking for more to follow! #HERDSA2025

It was a great pleasure to be on the #HERDSA2025 panel on AI this afternoon. I thought I'd post direct links to the resources I mentioned as good ways to keep up with and make sense of genAI in education. Just a few picks to get you started - there are so many amazing people in this space.

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 🤔

Lauren leaning back holding out her garishly coloured and patterned jacket, which clashes with her bright coloured fruit covered pants and luminescent shoes.

I forgot to post this yesterday. I love meeting my kind of crazy at conferences...the fabulous Lauren Woodlands #herdsa2025

Very humbled to share that I received the best student showcase presentation at #HERDSA2025 - what an amazing and thought-provoking conference! @drjot.bsky.social

Six smiling faces

Last CRADLE team selfie! #HERDSA2025

Timely given yesterday's Keynote touching (poor word choice??) On this yesterday #herdsa2025

Tegan & Kogi

Woohoo! Best #HERDSA2025 student showcase presentation to go to @teganlittle.bsky.social!!

Conferences can be organised to 100% offset the carbon load onc delegate flights etc. We have done it in our School before. #edithcowanuniversity #schoolofbusinessandlaw #herdsa2025

People keep sniffing really loudly a) gross and b) use a tissue c) covid is still real kids!!! #herdsa2025

We just went to the "what is the point of human existence." Pretty deep for the back end of 4 full days of brain effort! #herdsa2025

One of the skills for the future is uncertainty tolerance. Hello #VUCA my old friend 🧡 #herdsa2025

Listening to the Panel session at #herdsa2025 and brevet heard him speak before but Thomas Corbin (Deakin, CRADLE), and he is quite funny. Love the fact he dropped the f-bomb too. Very authentic

The panel on stage

Reached the final panel session at #HERDSA2025, "not just another GenAI panel" with promises of real experiences and responses.

I promised not to heckle Thomas ... So guess I need to share the panel's wisdom online instead

AI in Higher Education: Student Perspectives Exploring how students are experiencing and making sense of AI

If you want to find out more about the main project this comes from - check out more about this 4 university collaboration (Monash, UQ, Deakin, UTS) on their website

aiinhe.org
#herdsa2025

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 ❤️

Sarah and her title slide

Final showcase preso for the conference. Sarah Davey from UniSA

#HERDSA2025

Daniela & Diana and their title slide

I attended this because it had programmatic assessment in the title. Turns out @priyakhanna.bsky.social is part of the team and this preso is actually about student evaluation of teaching.

#HERDSA2025

Jo and the title slide

References to work on time & equity students

Now at Jo Dargusch's preso on how time impacts equity students. It's one resource that equity students often don't have.

Cites Penny Jane Burke's work on timescapes

#HERDSA2025

Amanda White answering Guy's question

Amanda White answering Guy's question

@amandalovestoaudit.bsky.social laughing at Guy Curtis's middle aged white guy question #herdsa2025

Used influencers to work out how to build more trusts with students. #herdsa2025

There are a lot of unintended consequences of using social media for support seeking. Also seeing students with a lot more poorly socialised behaviour, particularly from young men #herdsa2025

Where do our students go to today to engage and get support? 2nd largest support service in the world is YouTube. Ability to immediately seek support #herdsa2025