• Featured CHPE Research –
• Heymans, Y., Pool, J., Koch, R., Bisschoff, C., Christmals, C., Ebrahim, B., & Olivier, J. (2022). Second-year health students’ perspectives on developing open educational resources. In J. Olivier, C. Du Toit-Brits, A. Dhakulkar, & B. Bunt (Eds.), Contextualised open educational practices: Towards student agency and self-directed learning. OASIS Scholarly Books.  
• Heymans, Y., Strosnider, C., Pool, J., & Jansen van Vuuren, M. (2024). Intercultural competence through virtual exchange: Perspectives of undergraduate health student. Open Praxis, 16(2), 119–129. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55982/openpraxis.16.2.607  
• Pool, J., Fourie, M., Heymans, Y., & Christmals, C. (2022). The potential of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning research towards transformative pedagogies in higher education: An approach to ethical mindedness. In J. Pool, M. Fernandes-Martins, & M. Fourie (Eds.), Teaching and learning research in higher education (Vol. 2). Axiom Publishers.  
• Pool, J., Heymans, Y., Koch, R., & Mokwatsi, G. (2023). Pedagogy of play in a virtual excursion to foster self-directed learning in health care students. In N. Petersen, A. Du Toit, E. Mentz, & R. Balfour (Eds.), Innovative curriculum design: Bridging the theory-practice divide in work integrated learning to foster self-directed learning (pp. 327). OASIS Scholarly Books. https://books.aosis.co.za/index.php/ob/catalog/book/367  
• Reitsma, G., Koch, R., Heymans, Y., Mokwatsi, G., Brits, S., & Hanekom, G. (2022). Design thinking in developing a virtual work-integrated experience for Health Sciences students. In J. De Beer, N. Petersen, E. Mentz, & R. Balfour (Eds.), Self-directed learning in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic: Research on the affordances of online virtual excursions (pp. 327). OASIS Scholarly Books. https://books.aosis.co.za/index.php/ob/catalog/book/367  
• Heymans, Y. (2023, 30 November 2024). ChatGPT one year later: Working with GenAI to ensure authentic assessments Learning LandsCAPE Online Symposium,   
• Heymans, Y., Joseph, M., Ramani, E., & Lubbe, A. (2024, 10-12 September). Can multilingual assessment be the answer to multilingualism in Higher Education? North-West University Teaching and Learning Conference, Mahikeng, South Africa.  
• Heymans, Y., & Pool, J. (2023, 5-6 October). Bridging borders, building minds: Exploring the potential of virtual exchange programs in undergraduate health students' personal development and learning 8th annual International Conference on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) in higher education, Central University of Technology, Free State  
• Heymans, Y., Pool, J., & Koch, R. (2023, 24-26 October). Using generative AI to design an authentic assessment for undergraduate health and social care students Higher Education Learning & Teaching Association of Southern Africa (HELTASA), Vanderbijlpark.  
• Heymans, Y., Pool, J., Lubbe, A., Bisschoff, C., Bekker, C., & Christmals, C. (2024, 26-28 June). Design an authentic assessment for undergraduate healthcare students using Generative AI Southern African Association of Health Educationalists (SAAHE), Durban, KwaZulu Natal.  
• Heymans, Y., Pool, J., Strosnider, C., & Jansen van Vuuren, M. (2024, 20-22 November). Exploring the potential of virtual exchange programs in undergraduate health students' personal development and learning International Conference on Education Research (ICER), Cape Town, South Africa.  
• Lubbe, A., Heymans, Y., Pool, J., & Bekker, C. (2024, 6-8 November). Affordances of authentic pedagogy toward developing health sciences as self-directed, interprofessional individuals 7th International Self-Directed Learning Conference, Hartebeespoortdam, South Africa.   
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