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At Monash Business School, we are engaged with a range of #forpurposeorganisations to help them understand, measure and communicate the #impact of their programs and activities on beneficiaries and clients. Our #impactmeasurement work involves us going into the field, into these #forpurposeorganisations to understand their purpose, strategy and operations and to develop knowledge on how they create #value and #impact for their beneficiaries and clients. As research academics, we bring deep #theoretical and #practicalknowledge and understanding to our impact research programs and work collaboratively with #forpurposeorganisations. Our research has been globally awarded and recognised and is distinct from #consulting as we approach our #impactmeasurement work as research projects governed by university #ethicsprotocols. As academics, we don’t charge out for our time but only seek to cover direct costs incurred in research projects. An example of our research work is the long term research collaboration with The One Box, an innovative food relief charity based in Melbourne that provides fresh food boxes to families with primary aged children through schools. Our research has helped to develop an #impactmeasurementframework called the Beneficiary Outcome Scorecard (BOS) which The One Box has used (1) to evaluate their food relief program and its benefits and (2) to collaborate with philanthropy foundations to raise funds to support their program. Our research is helping The One Box to understand how their program is helping families facing food insecurity to connect with the school community to access additional support services (e.g., domestic violence support), to improve their mental and physical wellbeing and to improve their children’s learning and development. Our research is helping The One Box to help reduce food insecurity, hunger and poverty amongst Australian families including refugees and migrants. If you are interested in knowing more about our #impactmeasurement research program, please reach out. Ralph Kober Zhiyun Gong #researchimpact

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Looking forward to presenting a 2hr keynote workshop at LG Professionals, NSW huge conference next month with the title: #Local #Government #Transformation: Using a #DesignThinking Approach. I will be hosting a workshop on using a design thinking approach to purpose-driven #strategic #local #government #transformation. I will stress the importance of #stakeholder #relationships, #business #process #continuous #improvement, #sociotechnical #innovation, and commensurate #cultural #change using an #outward mindset. The workshop will focus on the #finance function within the organization, and emphasize the #environmental, #social and #governance dimensions honoring a commitment to #sustainability. Arizona State University Sydney Business School, University of Wollongong Faculty of Business & Law, University of Wollongong Associate Professor Belinda Gibbons Professor Martin O'Brien Grace McCarthy Professor Payyazhi Jayashree Dr. Yiyang Bian Zeenath Reza Khan, PhD Dan Pretzler Shahriar Akter Samuel Fosso Wamba, PhD-HDR Valbona Merxhushi Madeleine Du Toit Amanda Winks Pádraig McCahey Kachina Dimmock Tim Vo Monique Watts Kelly deVos Ross Maciejewski School for the Future of Innovation in Society at ASU Cynthia Selin For more visit ➡ https://lnkd.in/gPszxmw6

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Five things to keep in mind when changing assessment for a time of artificial intelligence - summary slide from my talk with the Australian Council of Deans of Education at their big meeting today. (For context, was presented after I discussed the wonderful TEQSA AI doc; this is complementary to those ideas. Also, TPA = Teaching Performance Assessment, a really interesting programmatic portfolio approach used in teacher education across Australia)

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Happy to Design a Comprehensive Sustainability Course for Current and Future Business Leaders #EducationforSustainability. I thank the Academic Leaders of the Australian Institute of Advanced Technologies (AIAT Adelaide) for incorporating Sustainability as a CORE & COMPULSORY unit of an MBA program. AIAT is among very few progressive Higher Education Institutions in Australia and the World. MLI504 Leading for Sustainability is a CORE Unit for an MBA-Level Professional Education The Unit includes all fundamental and currently relevant topics to change the thought process for transitioning toward a Sustainable Business Enterprise and implementing Sustainability Practices in any Progressive and Responsible Business Organisation. The unit includes: Ecologically Sustainable Development; Sustainable Development Goals; Carbon cycle, Carbon Accounting & Climate Change; Sustainability Risks & Opportunities; Sustainability Frameworks (Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI), Value Reporting Foundation (VRF) (IR & SASB), Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB), EGS Disclosures & Ethics; Task Force for Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD); Risk of Biodiversity Loss; Task Force for Nature-Related Financial Disclosure (TNFD), Nature related Risks and Opportunities; Global Biodiversity Framework,  Circular Economy and Circular Economy Business Model; Sustainable Design and Biomimicry; Sustainable Finance and Trends; Sustainable Procurement and Supply Chain,  Green HR, Sustainability Marketing; Food Waste; Sustainable Business Practices and Case Studies.   AIAT | Australian Institute of Advanced Technologies #educationforSustainability #SDGs #Climatechange #TCFD #TNFD #CircularEconomy #Sustainabledesign #Biomimicry #sustainablefinance #carbonaccounting #sustainableprocurement #esg #sustainabilityrisks #sustainabilityopportunities #greenhr #sustainabilitymarketing https://lnkd.in/g6NYyB_S

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Leadership capability 'blobs' and horizon thinking for a 'shifting world', a 'messy future'. 👉 More innovative findings from the authors of the 2025 Skills Horizon report plus.sydney.edu.au/horizon. 👉 Sandra Peter and colleagues capture leadership skill 'blobs'. 👉 I think of them as leadership capability clusters. 👉 Powerful capability combinations to navigate future uncertainties with leadership curiosity and resilience. 👉 Thinking through complexity includes: self-leadership, probabilistic thinking, humanities thinking, unlearning outdated approaches, managing through complexity, futures thinking (source: Peter et al., 2024, p.61). 👉 Check out the other 3 'blobs'. A rich checklist for leaders and governing boards navigating 'compounding complexities' of today and tomorrow. #HigherEducation #Leadership #Governance #TertiaryEducation #HorizonThinking #FuturesThinking

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Highly stimulating session today with Unitec academic leaders, including many members of the #professoriate (yes, many vocational providers in #NZ have excellent professors), considering the risks and opportunities in the University Advisory Group’s terms of reference. Here’s an idea: perhaps the general theories developed through #universities’ basic research should be tested in applied settings by #vocational researchers? Of course, this might mean that the application of theory in practice may on occasion disprove the theory.

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Our research team is interested in how #digitalisation is changing how professionals work and learn in the Australian school context. If you are an Australian #teacher or #schoolleader, we'd love to hear from you. Also, please share if you know a teacher or school leader who might be interested. #professionallearning #lifelonglearning #CPE

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TEQSA’s Gen AI Strategies for Australian Higher Education: Emerging Practice toolkit is now available! A valuable resource for safeguarding assessment integrity in the era of generative AI. #HigherEducation #GenAI #AI #TeachingAndLearning #AssessmentIntegrity

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High time we shift the focus from cheating (students are the problem) to academic assessment validity (Higher Education learning design is the problem). Insightful paper from Deakin University with Dr Phillip Dawson and team. #learningdesign #educationaldesign #HigherEducatiin #AI #assessment #research #EAI

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For anyone interested in expanding their leadership skills

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If the Australian Curriculum Version 9.0 is implemented as intended and students are provided an opportunity to develop their mathematical process skills, mathematical modeling, statistical investigation, probability experiments and simulations, computational thinking skills, Science inquiry skills, Digital literacy skills and Design and technology design thinking, process, and production skills then students will be exposed to the foundations of engineering and develop the necessary capabilities to pursue an engineering career path. If students are continually taught solely through EDI and other teacher-centric approaches, students won't develop the critical creative thinking, problem-solving, and inquiry STEM skills necessary for pursuing and Engineering pathway.

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Check out the pilot study of the AI Assessment Scale, which has informed our updates and conversations about how the AIAS is being used by students and educators. Dr Mike Perkins Jasper Roe Dr. Jason MacVaugh #aias #assessment #aiassessment #artificialintelligence #aieducation

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🌏📚 Support learning abroad and the New Colombo Plan – Share Our Survey! 📚🌏 Calling Australian students and graduates aged 18 or above, regardless of whether you have engaged in learning abroad or not. We are conducting an important Australian Research Council funded survey to understand the impact of learning abroad and how to enhance access to and experiences of learning abroad. We need your help to reach Australian students and graduates. 🌟 Why This Matters 🌟 🎉Your support helps amplify the voices of Australian students and graduates, including NCP students and alumni, on issues critical to learning abroad. 🎉 We particularly want to hear from Australian students and graduates from regional Australia or disadvantaged backgrounds who have not got a chance to study abroad or withdrawn from study abroad 🎉The findings will contribute to informing policy reform, especially New Colombo Plan reforms, and practices to support Australian students. 🎉We will prepare a de-identified report of findings on your students and graduates if over 50 students/graduates from your university participate in the survey. 🎉Participants can enter a draw to win one of 20 $100 Myer and Coles Group Gift Cards. Please share this anonymous online survey with your networks and encourage Australian students and graduates to participate. Their insights are crucial for driving positive changes! The survey is accessible via this link: https://lnkd.in/gDDNK5Kj 🎉 Help Us Make a Difference! 🎉 #intled #internationaleducation #studyabroad #Australia #universities #learningabroad #studentmobility #Asia #Indo-Pacific #NewColomboPlan #NCP #alumni #graduates #university Jill Blackmore AM Quan Vu Diep Nguyen Baogang He Universities Australia International Education Association of Australia (IEAA) Deakin University DeakinREDI Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet Asia Society Australia Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade) Austrade International Education | Australian Trade and Investment Commission

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That's why they are Nobel winners. For the rest of the world, we can choose a path of passion and pursuit of excellence or live a mediocre life with 9to5 job that only gives us money to search for happiness elsewhere. And yes, then question this work  philosophy. Before questioning billionaires who advise long working hours, It's time to question our priority.  Is our work, just a means to earn a livelihood or does it mean something much more?  Someone can say that he is very efficient to finish his allocated job in 4 hrs and will do whatever he wants. These are the sure to be replaced by AI, as they are probably already using AI or their job is so streamlined that AI can do.  It is not about neglecting other parts of life. It is about focusing on the most important part that would give long term results.

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Very proud to work with and learn from this amazing group of people! Of our online gambling advertising research and findings, our joint report states: "In our research on gambling advertising in the Ad Observatory that was published in Addiction Research and Theory and also reported by the ABC, our research team uncovered gambling advertising served to Australians by BitStarz on Facebook. This advertising is problematic because BitStarz is an online offshore casino registered in the Dutch Caribbean Island of Curaçao, that cannot legally operate or advertise in Australia.59 Our research identified loopholes in the Australian law that make it difficult to hold either BitStarz or Meta accountable for this otherwise unlawful advertising when it appears on a social media platform like Facebook. Facebook, and some other platforms, do have their own internal policies that prohibit online casinos from targeting advertising in jurisdictions where it is illegal, like Australia. But our research suggests, these internal policies and procedures do not always work, despite the enormous information and resources social media platforms have at their disposal. Our research reinforces the need for reforms to Australian law to close the loophole that makes platforms unaccountable for illegal advertising online. This could be done by following the lead of the 2022 European Union Digital Services Act which would give the Australian Communications and Media Authority the power to issue social media platforms with ‘notice and takedown’ orders to remove unlawful advertising. Advertising on social media is an important pipeline for promoting gambling to young people. In our study of gambling ads on Facebook, our provisional research findings have identified three important gambling ad issues in Australia. In further research on the gambling ads in the Australian Ad Observatory we are finding that the vast majority of gambling ads on Facebook are for ‘sports betting’ from a limited number of legally compliant gambling providers. Secondly, there is a small but significant amount of ‘grey zone’ gambling ads that have an uncertain degree of compliance with Australian law. Some are clearly unlawful, yet circulated on Facebook and Instagram, while others remain lawful yet target users with gambling-like systems such as raffle “rewards clubs” without clearly identifying themselves as a gambling service. This has the potential to confuse or frustrate users and parents who may be surprised by gambling materials being advertised to young people in an apparently legally-compliant manner. Thirdly, initial findings suggest that social media gambling ads work by identifying target users who are then subjected to gambling ad ‘bursts’, often related to when a user first logs in to social media".

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Pursuing a SoTL research career? We surveyed research leaders to uncover: 1. How universities view SoTL (it's more complex than you might think!) 2. The roadblocks and opportunities SoTL researchers face 3. Top tips for building a successful SoTL research path. There are challenges, but this research equips you to navigate them and establish a strong SoTL career. Download the full study here: https://lnkd.in/gpYz_EH7 #highereducation #SoTL #research #careeradvice #australia P.S. Want to delve deeper into becoming a SoTL scholar? Check out this fantastic resource from Elon University Center for Engaged Learning: https://lnkd.in/gXKJddgk Reference: Baron, P., & McCormack, S. (2024). Planning a SoTL Research Career: A Cautionary Tale from Australia. In J. Miller-Young & N. L. Chick (Eds.), 'Becoming a SoTL Scholar' (pp. 83-100). Elon University Center for Engaged Learning.

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This week in my #NeededNowLT series with Jason M. Lodge NAEEA - National Association of Enabling Educators of Australia Enabling Education: The Great Disruptor 🤞 Hopefully aligning with good #Budget24 news that these #UnisAccord Recs will be funded. #Enabling has a critical role to play in realising Jason Clare MP #OzHE sector ambitions to double by 2050 👇 #UniversitiesAccord Recs 12 ➕ 40: 👉 ‘Increase the availability of fee-free preparatory courses & fund these places to match the cost of delivery’  --Expert Panel found that ‘maintaining the fee-free nature of preparatory courses is important, and...should continue to be legislated’ (p. 136).  👉 Publicly funded unis should deliver ‘"#DemandDriven” fee-free preparatory courses’ #Enabling ➕ #EnablingPedagogy ➡ inclusive & "care-full" edu: --"A tried & tested strategy of unis to widen participation for students from ‘under-represented’ groups" --LSES participate at 2️⃣ ❎the rate in Enabling as they do in UG --Delivers #FoundationSkills --A pathway for 19% dis-engaged young people to successfully re-engage in beneficial learning --Strong evidence it is THE most successful prep- #VET runs a clear second 👏 Enabling beyond access for equity-bearing students 👏 Equips students to progress & succeed https://lnkd.in/gk-uZduH EPHEA - Equity Practitioners in Higher Education Karen Seary Sarah Hattam Sharron King George Lambrinidis Anthea Fudge Stuart Levy @Joanne Lisciandro Associate Professor Suzi Syme Bronwyn Relf Anna Bennett Jonathan Green Trixie James Angela Jones UTS Centre for Social Justice & Inclusion Regional Universities Network Australian Technology Network of Universities (ATN Universities) Innovative Research Universities (IRU)

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Sharing this great resource so I can go back to it and explore in more detail. With AI evolving on a daily basis, any resources that help us to imagine new ways of incorporating AI into #teaching, #learning and #assessment is well worth exploring.

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OUR LATEST EPISODE IS LIVE… …MAKING SCIENCE ACCESSIBLE In today's episode, I chat with founder and leader of the University of Melbourne’s acclaimed Science Communication Teaching Program, Associate Professor Jen Martin. We discuss the presence of science in our everyday lives and how making science more inclusive and relevant helps people feel that it is part of their world, rather than something only for the intelligent or elite. Jen also talks about writing her first book - Why Am I Like This? The science behind your weirdest thoughts and habits, and shares a few snippets - like why we procrastinate, and why we stick our tongue out when we concentrate - in our conversation. Look out for BBY Show S9 Ep2: Making science accessible with Jen Martin and me - Kym Hamer… …on Apple – https://apple.co/4eHehLK …on Spotify – https://spoti.fi/4gPnLGz ...and all your favourite podcast platforms. Let us know if you have any questions for Jen in the comments below....maybe we can help her to write a Why Am I Like This? Part 2! Kym Hamer - Building Brand You Accelerating results by unlocking your greatest asset - YOU. #personalbranding #leadership #reading #books #recommendations #science #communication #BuildingBrandYou #BBY #podcast

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