The HERESA Podcast

The HERESA podcast is dedicated to discussing themes in higher education.

The HERESA Media Team has been devising more effective ways to promote our events and initiatives. As an EU-funded project with THENSA and OBREAL Global as strategic partners, it became clear to us that we needed to go beyond the odd social media post or radio and television slots to realise our objectives.
If we wanted to advocate for higher education reform, we had to use the mediums and platforms currently attracting the most eyes and ears. We had to pivot, adjust and adapt to the ever-changing media and marketing landscape where oversaturation and distraction can often get in the way of attracting decisive, meaningful coverage.
In response to these shifts and realities, we have launched “The HERESA Podcast”.

Over several episodes, we will host a variety of discussions with academics, educators and pedagogical experts around issues and concerns in Higher Education. While our members-only HERESA Café sessions have sought similar objectives within the parameters of private discussions with HERESA members only, the HERESA Podcast episodes will be published on our website and other social media platforms which are open to the public. Our mission is to provide an accessible platform that listeners from different walks of life can tune into.

We look forward to having engaging discussions with our participants on some of the crucial aspects of this project.

September 19, 2023

HERESA Podcast: Communities of Practice – Episode 4

Competence-Based Learning (CBL) is a pedagogical approach that has been gaining traction over the years. However, conceptually, it is not a new phenomenon, but an expansion of existing efforts to get students to take a more active role in their learning. For the fourth episode of the ‘Meeting of Many Minds: Communities of Practice (CoP)’…

August 27, 2023

HERESA Podcast: Communities of Practice – Episode 3

“Meeting of Many Minds: Communities of Practice (CoPs)” is the second series of the HERESA Podcast. Over the episodes of this series, we hope to define a Community of Practice (CoP) by speaking to the four chairs of HERESA’s CoPs established in the fields of Entrepreneurship Education, Work-Integrated Learning (WIL), Competence-Based Learning (CBL) and Curriculum…

August 8, 2023

HERESA Podcast: Communities of Practice – Episode 2

Over five episodes, the Community of Practice (CoP) series will speak to the four chairs of the CoPs established in the fields of Entrepreneurship Education, Work-Integrated Learning (WIL), Competence-Based Learning (CBL) and Curriculum Development for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). For the second episode of this series, we chatted with Professor Keo Motaung, previously the…

July 19, 2023

HERESA Podcast: Communities of Practice – Episode 1

‘Meeting of Many Minds: Communities of Practice (CoPs)’, is the second series of the HERESA Podcast. In this first episode, we spoke to Dr Helen McGuirk, Head of the Hincks Centre for Entrepreneurship Excellence at the Munster Technological University (MTU), who provided us with a definition of a CoP. She outlined how it facilitates research…

July 5, 2023

HERESA Podcast: Young Academics – Episode 4

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the “digital divide” became a major talking point in the higher education sector. Challenges regarding access to data and internet connectivity became a rallying call for students and academics looking to ensure no one would be left behind in the virtual classroom. For this final episode of the ‘Young Academics’ podcast,…

June 13, 2023

HERESA Podcast: Young Academics – Episode 3

The task of implementing strategies to discourage cheating in the virtual classroom was one of the themes for the third episode of the “Young Academics” Podcast. For our participants, this growing threat prompted them to rethink their approach toward assessment so that their teaching methods were relevant, dynamic, and engaged with the needs of the…

May 22, 2023

HERESA Podcast: Young Academics – Episode 2

One of the key objectives of the HERESA Project is to foster South-South-North cooperation amongst our members. This became especially relevant during the pandemic when an inability to travel and meet face-to-face called for closer collaboration between local and international partners. That we were all united in tackling challenges was a unifying theme that arose…

April 25, 2022

HERESA Podcast: Young Academics – Episode 1

In this first episode of the “Young Academics in the Age of COVID-19” Podcast, our participants discussed the challenges of adjusting to online teaching and learning, the difficulties of striking a work-life balance and the importance of making curricula as interactive and engaging as possible for students. Each young academic demonstrated an admirable amount of…