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Professor Henk Huijser
Academic Division,
Education Portfolio,
Student Success and Teaching Advancement
Biography
Henk is a Professor and has been a Strategic Lead, Educator Development and Recognition in QUT Academic of Learning and Teaching since October 2023. Before that he was a Curriculum and Learning Designer in the Learning and Teaching Unit since September 2017. He has wide ranging experience in curriculum design and academic development in different higher education contexts, including in Australia (USQ and Batchelor Institute), the Middle East (Bahrain Polytechnic) and China (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University). He has a PhD in Screen and Media Studies from the University of Waikato.Personal details
Positions
- Strategic Lead, Educator Development and Recognition
Academic Division,
Education Portfolio,
Student Success and Teaching Advancement
Keywords
Higher Education, Problem-based Learning, Learning Analytics, Blended learning, Indigenous education, Peer learning, Learning ecologies, Technology-enhanced learning, Microcredentials, Communities of practice
Research field
Curriculum and pedagogy, Specialist studies in education, Other Education
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Qualifications
- PhD in Screen and Media Studies (University of Waikato)
Professional memberships and associations
- Co-Editor - Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
- Associate Editor - International Journal for Academic Development
- International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL)
- Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE)
- Member College of Reviewers - Higher Education Research & Development
- Associate Editor - Journal of Peer Learning
- Adjunct Researcher - Batchelor Institute
Teaching
Henk coordinates QUT's learning and teaching-related professional development (see Developing skills in learning and teaching - Staff - QUT Portal).
Publications
Filter publications:
A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/h.huijser
Awards
- Type
- Editor of a Prestigious Work of Reference
- Reference year
- 2024
- Details
- In November 2023, I was appointed on a competitive basis to Co-Lead Editor of the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology (AJET), which is a Q1 journal and the highest ranked education journal in Australia
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2024
- Details
- Co-Recipient of a VC Excellence Award for Leadership Excellence for the development of the Pathways to Teaching Excellence Program
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2025
- Details
- Invited keynote speaker and committee member for the '2025 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Education' (14-16 May) in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China. The keynote address is entitled 'The central Gen AI dilemma: How do we guarantee that learning takes place?'
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2024
- Details
- Collaborator on a successful Hong Kong Research Council (Hong Kong equivalent of ARC) Grant application for a project called 'Examining and redesigning assessment tasks challenged bygenerative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to uphold academic integrity and support learning'. The awarded funding is HK$591,790 (AU$122,125)
- Type
- Editor of a Prestigious Work of Reference
- Reference year
- 2023
- Details
- In 2023, I Co-Edited (with Professor Michael Sankey & Associate Professor Rachel Fitzgerald) a volume entitled "Technology-Enhanced Learning and the Virtual University", which was published in that same year.
- Type
- International Collaboration
- Reference year
- 2023
- Details
- Co-Recipient of an Internal Academy of Future Education (XJTLU) (Suzhou, Jiangsu, CN) grant for a project called Digital Game-Based Innovative Teaching for Student-Centred Active Learning. The grant is for the period 2023-2026 for the amount of CNY 100,000 (AU$22,000)
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Community
- Reference year
- 2022
- Details
- Appointed as Mentor in ASCILITE's Community Mentoring Program.
- Type
- Editor of a Prestigious Work of Reference
- Reference year
- 2022
- Details
- Lead editor (with Megan Kek & Fernando Padro) of a volume called "Student Support Services", which includes 48 chapters, and more than 900 pages. It includes a high number of chapters by leaders in the field (and the higher education sector more broadly). It also includes many contributions from QUT researchers.
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2020
- Details
- QUT Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence: Service Excellence (Team Award)
- Type
- Funding Award
- Reference year
- 2014
- Details
- West, D., Huijser, H., Bronnimann, J., Miles, C., Toohey, D. & Lizzio, A. (2014-2015). Learning Analytics: Assisting Universities with Student Retention - Funded by the Office for Learning & Teaching (AU$ 319,200)
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Conceptualising the Enhancement of Professional Skills and Competencies in Information Technology Students in Higher Education
PhD, Principal Supervisor
Other supervisors: Dr Sam Cunningham, Dr Nona Press - Solving educational problems of practice in blended environments using learning analytics dashboards
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Kate Thompson, Dr Steven Kickbusch
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Examining the impact of learning technologies on social justice in higher education (2023)
- Education in a humanitarian context: A case study of a peer education program for adolescent girls in two refugee camps in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (2022)
- An Analysis of Learning Networks of STEM Undergraduate Students to Promote Active Learning (2020)
- Cultural Identity of Chinese Students in a Transnational University in China (2020)
- Goori baje wulara bina - Jandai mirrenya Quandamookajen nganamil: Hear the voice of our Ancestors - reclaiming Jandai from a Quandamooka worldview (2020)
- Change and normalisation : understanding the role of learning around Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia in Australia's primary education systems (2019)
- Exploring transition pedagogy at the tertiary level: a case study of newly enrolled first year education students¿ experience in writing and thinking within the genre of the persuasive essay in a comparative analysis of literacy pedagogy (2018)
- Applying an integrated communications approach to the study of user multimedia interactions (2007)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.