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Kieran Balloo

@kieranballoo.bsky.social
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PhD | SFHEA | HigherEd Academic/Researcher: Feedback; SoTL; Student Mental Health; Student Equity, Inclusion & Transitions | 🇬🇧 in 🇦🇺 | Views my own linktr.ee/kieranballoo

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Ana Stevenson @dranastevenson.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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....
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How To Do Academic Blogging | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
How To Do Academic Blogging - Volume 1
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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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....
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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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Teaching in Higher Education @teachinginhe.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
🚨 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...
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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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Rob Nash @drrobnash.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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
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Naomi Milthorpe @drmilthorpe.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
New equity in teaching survey is dropping as part of our ACSES-supported project, "Supporting academics with inclusive & equitable curricula, teaching and learning"!
Project logo featuring a multi-coloured graphic design and text that reads "Supporting academics with inclusive & equitable curricula, teaching and learning"
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Ana Stevenson @dranastevenson.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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....
Journal cover for Public HumanitiesSpecial Edition journal cover for Public Humanities: The How-To Issue
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
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.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 07/03/2025
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.
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Kieran Balloo @kieranballoo.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
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:
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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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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
when i submit an article manuscript for peer review
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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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Victoria Wilson @victoriawilsonphd.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
@kieranballoo.bsky.social and I wrote a chapter in this book, released today! #Teaching, #wellbeing, #humanizing #pedagogies www.bloomsbury.com/au/reclaimin...
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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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Australian Association for Research in Education @australianare.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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
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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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Michael Seery @mkseery.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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....
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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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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 17/01/2025
That exciting moment when I realize I did *not* finish my coffee.
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Kieran Balloo @kieranballoo.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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...
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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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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
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!
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
This year, be the nodder in the audience every presenter deserves
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 31/12/2024
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
Screencap showing the jump from Oct 4 to 15
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
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.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Headline of the Year contest starts tomorrow. Here are the winners from previous contests:
HEADLINE OF THE YEAR WINNERS, 2018-2023

2018 PLUMAGE A TROIS Thomas the blind bisexual goose who was stuck in a two-decade long love triangle with two swans dies aged 40
2019 Penguins ignore police, return to sushi shop
2020 Hospital angrily denies snake discovered in operating theatre, insisting there was only a monkey
2021 When an Eel Climbs a Ramp to Eat Squid From a Clamp, That's a Moray
2022 The City of Ottawa wants to hear your garbage opinions
2023 British Museum asks public and experts to help recover stolen artefacts
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Mollie Dollinger @molliedollin.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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...
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2025-26 Large Grants awarded - ACSES
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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
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.
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Higher Education Research and Development @herdjournal.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
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... 🎟️
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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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Kieran Balloo @kieranballoo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This sounds unbelievably timely!
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Trying out this new coffee alternative called “sleep”
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
before coffee: I hate everything after coffee: I hate everything but nervouser
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Antony Tibbs @antonyt.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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...
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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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! 🙏
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Dr Tracy Westerman AM @drtracywesterman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
A child at 10: · Loses 4 baby teeth a year · Knows the complete date · Can name the months of the yr in order ·Can read & understand a paragraph of complex sentences ·Has developed skills in addition, subtraction ·Has some skills in multiplying & division, And, in Aust, can go to prison #RaiseTheAge
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Kieran Balloo @kieranballoo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Important findings about the value of immersive block models for equity students.
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🌴✨🦋 Kathryn 🦋✨🌴 @kathrynkatiekwrites.substack.com · 26/11/2024
It blows my mind that NASA is able to receive data from 4.67 billion miles away, but I lose Wi-Fi signal in my kitchen.
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Prof. Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Given that two of my case studies were supporting teaching & scholarship and b̶e̶i̶n̶g̶ v̶e̶r̶y̶ l̶o̶u̶d̶ o̶n̶ t̶h̶e̶ i̶n̶t̶e̶r̶n̶e̶t̶ open educational resources, it is only appropriate that I have uploaded my PFHEA application to the OSF should it be helpful osf.io/5vydn #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Leon Furze @leonfurze.com · 26/11/2024
Chatbots don’t make sense. They make words. 🤖
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Kieran Balloo @kieranballoo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The hellsite is trying to sell me Premium for 40% off. Do you think it's starting to get a little desperate?
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Meagan Tyler @drmeagantyler.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Day 1 of running a 3-day writing retreat down and just doing some light reflection on my pre-retreat planning... 🤔
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Juuso Henrik Nieminen @juusonieminen.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
How could university placements be more inclusive for diverse learners? Through proper pedagogical design, we argue in this paper led by @molliedollin.bsky.social. Now published in the latest issue of Studies in Higher Education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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A lucky draw? Theorising how work placements develop diverse university students’ career stories
Universities can prepare students for work, and universities can educate increasingly diverse student cohorts, but can they do both concurrently? This question of whether universities can offer equ...
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Apologies for the late response, instead of spending three minutes answering your email I ignored it and felt anxious for two weeks
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Leon Furze @leonfurze.com · 23/11/2024
Treat AI like it’s software… because it is. Transcription, coding, document processing, image recognition etc. are all useful for educators. I’ll post this week about using AI as software and not treating it like a human. #artificialintelligence #aieducation #aiedu #aiined #aiinedu
Screenshot of ChatGPT used for transcribing handwritten notes. The ChatGPT app is open with a photo of notes, and the response from ChatGPT reads: “Here is the transcription of the handwritten margin notes:
"There's a useful analogy for Al in here.
As origami, where everything that happens is an expression of paper, in Al everything..."
The rest of the notes seem incomplete or partially obscured. Let me know if you'd like help interpreting this further!”
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Dr Liz Goode @lizsgoode.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Join Kieran Balloo, Susan Hopkins, Lisa Duffy and myself for the next #NAEEA webinar in feedback literacy in enabling education!
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Adam Brooks @brookssensei.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Welcome the newest educators with a follow and say hi! @ms-doig.bsky.social @craigaskin.bsky.social @australianare.bsky.social @mrvanw.bsky.social @natashainoz.bsky.social @corinne142.bsky.social @rayedish.bsky.social @christianprice.bsky.social #edusky #eduskyAU go.bsky.app/QRAUqfc
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Joanna Tai @drjot.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This one amazing trick with ARC applications ... write your proposal in a Word doc with standard "narrow" margins. Then paste into the uni-supplied template which has 0.5cm margins... and voila! your proposal is no longer too long.
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19/11/2024
Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 18/11/2024
Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content. That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂
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Prof Andy Field @profandyfield.com · 18/11/2024
Want to learn/teach R? I'm still actively developing my package of learnr tutorials at github.com/profandyfiel... Just added a tutorial on multilevel models and repeated measures.
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GitHub - profandyfield/discovr: discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio
discovr package for R to accompany Discovering Statistics Using R and RStudio - profandyfield/discovr
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Stephanie Boragina @sboragina.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Testing out polling on Bluesky. What reference manager do you use? 1️⃣ Zotero 2️⃣ Mendeley 3️⃣ Endnote 4️⃣ Other 📊 Show results
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Infinite academics with infinite typewriters would eventually complete a full paragraph without checking their phone
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
By popular demand… the Guardian is officially on BlueSky @theguardian.com
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
starter pack of academic imposters and it's just you
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