Join the Speed SoTL session as part of the National Learning and Teaching Focused Network on 20th September from 10-12. The topic is Transition! Please email [email protected] if you’d like to join and I will send the MS Teams invite to you. Trent Institute for Learning and Teaching

Rather it says, the only important thing is cold, hard cash. This paper, written by my colleagues Dr Richard Marsden and Dr Anna Plassart from OU Arts & Social Sciences, challenges this false idea... 8/9 www5.open.ac.uk/wales/en/news/…

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Today, Tim Fawns and I recorded an audio version of our #HE4Good book chapter on assessment and social good, with the most awesome Dr Joanna Tai narrating the text. Stay tuned for the final version! Meanwhile, you can read the chapter: openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647…

Really enjoyed giving this talk, reflecting on what has— and hasn’t — changed over the last three years.

New #WeeklyResourceRoundup of events and resources useful for those teaching in HE just published, some great toolkit and online events there. wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/202… #AberPGCTHE

Kevin Roose had a good play at manipulating chatbot responses. Read to the end, you'll laugh out loud at times. How Do You Change a Chatbot’s Mind? nytimes.com/2024/08/30/tec…

Looking for useful case studies about using Gen AI for teaching in HE and FE? Jisc has been busy over the summer. Check out their Gen AI in Practice collection. exploreai.jisc.ac.uk/resource-hub #AberPGCTHE

🔔Teaching Matters newsletter is changing format! You can now read our reflective 'five things...' round-up of each series edin.ac/3TckIxV & Collegiate Commentaries edin.ac/3MxsFtR directly on the blog & on LinkedIn newsletter: edin.ac/3ZeuFiu

I don't think I've ever resonated more with an image in my life

Ted Chiang on why ai isn't going to make art. newyorker.com/culture/the-we…

Join us next Wednesday at 8PM BST for #LTHEChat 299: "#Poetry and #Pedagogy in Higher Education" with Sam Illingworth and Prof Kirsten Jack Read the blog post at shorturl.at/7nYm2

New #WeeklyResourceRoundup of events, articles and more of use for educators in HE wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/202… #AberPGCTHE

Thoughtful critique of Gen AI from Ted Chiang in the New Yorker. Thanks for sharing this. #AberPGCTHE

"The problem here isn’t that large language models hallucinate, lie, or misrepresent the world in some way. It’s that they are not designed to represent the world at all; instead, they are designed to convey convincing lines of text" link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Student choice, interest & meaningful engagement for educationally authentic assessment Teaching in Higher Education (TiHE) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Phillip Dawson Agree - we unpacked it our recent paper 'Traditional lectures vs active learning - a false dichotomy? Open access: aimsciences.org/article/doi/10…

Thanks for this post, Dr. Sarah Elaine Eaton🇨🇦. It's a useful reminder for teaching staff to think critically before using ChatGPT and similar tools for marking and feedback. #AberPGCTHE

Great tips and reminders from Emily Nordmann for us busy educators at the start of term, how to manage our time and tasks. sway.cloud.microsoft/zArWspCJaLFv2q… #AberPGCTHE