ASCILITE is the premier academic and practitioner conference in higher education digital technologies. This year was the first time DER members were able to attend for 3 years.

Prof Michael Henderson was awarded Life Member in 2021, but received it in person this year. Michael is the 16th awardee in the 37 years ofthe association. It is in recognition of sustained and outstanding service to the ASCILITE community, particularly in leadership around its scholarly direction and activities.

DER also congratulates Hua (Flora) Jin for her Best Paper award. Flora is a research student with our colleagues in COLAM, including DER member Yi-Shan Tsai. The paper on learning analytics and feedback can be read here.

Congratulations as well to Josephine Hook and team (includng DER member Prof Michael Henderson) for second place for the Poster awards. The poster builds on their chapter and explores the themes and implications surrouding Educational Design creative risk taking. You can read more about the chapter and see the poster here.