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sorry to hear this, Kate. You make a huge contribution and I hope that you don't have to go through the at-risk experience again.

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It came out in 2017 that Kahnemann's evidence wasn't necessarily fully replicable (doesn't mean his ideas are bunk, just need to factor in the limits). Here's his response: replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/r...

Great CPD opportunity from #LTHEchat this Wednesday. #AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky

Asked Google for a definition of AI slop. This is what I got. Love the irony of it! Asking other educators and developers... what are your thoughts on this? #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky

Waiting for student responses | Instructional Moves

Someone brought this 5-minute clip from Harvard GS of Education on facilitating class discussion to my attention, and I thought it would be of value for others. Thinking time - fits nicely with think-pair-share as well. instructionalmoves.gse.harvard.edu/waiting-stud... #AberPGCTHE

Weekly Resource Roundup by Dr Mary Jacob, Lecturer in learning and teaching, Aberystwyth University

Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup key topics include #ActiveLearning #UDL #InclusiveTeaching #GenAI and more! Feat. @activelearningnet.bsky.social @jisc.bsky.social @ft30uk.bsky.social @tilenetwork.bsky.social and more! wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSkyu #AcademicSky

Weekly Resource Roundup – 27/10/2025 October 10/2025 Jisc Artificial Intelligence, AI Training Sessions 28/10/2025 RAISE AI in HE SIG, Generative AI for Academics 29/10/2025 UDL-UKI, UDL Night School: UDL for Learning Spaces (£10) 29/…

Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup of resources and online events useful for HE educators, posted today: wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky

Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup dropped just now with loads on inclusive teaching, Gen AI, trauma-informed teaching, anti-racism, neurodivergence, group learning and more wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky

This looks great for embedding wellbeing in our higher education teaching! Even if you can't participate live, the blog post has loads of useful ideas and resources. #AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky

Did you know retrieval practice, or trying to recall previously taught material, is the single most robust learning strategy supported by research?

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A3 #LTHEchat don't transcribe everything the speaker says, but process the info and link to prior knowledge. Include exact phrases/terms as appropriate. Online versus handwritten notes making for me are quite different. Online I take screen shots of Powerpoint slides alternating with my comments.

A4 #LTHEchat for me, the biggest aesthetic is colour as in colour coding. That enables me to spot the structure of ideas and connections between them quite easily. Other than that, I don't care about aesthetics for note making.

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Weekly Resource Roundup – Digital Education Group

thanks, I thought you would like to know that I'm including a link to your site in the upcoming #WeeklyResourceRoundup, which will be posted later today. wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/c... #AcademicSky #EduSky #AberPGCTHE

LTHEchat 336 Effective Note Making Systems from Paper to AI Join us on Bluesky on Wednesday 24th September 2025 at 20:00 BST At the University of Glasgow we are in our first teaching week, the topic of note making, and its related systems see…

Tonight! #LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social with Nathalie Tasler @drntasler.bsky.social on effective note-making looks great! Useful resources in the blog post too. lthechat.com/2025/09/19/l...

Loads of online events in the #WeeklyResourceRoundup to help university staff develop our teaching practice: wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky

I've been testing the accuracy of LLMs in transcribing printed and handwritten historical texts stored as images. I put together a corpus of 400 pages from the Library of Congress.

Current leader is GPT4.1-mini, which at 11 cents per 1K pages, is also the cheapest option. github.com/nealcaren/In...

Diolch yn fawr! :-) Please give my regards back to your Welsh family, great to have that connection.

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yes, any particular teaching context would require a customised balance of types of learning in any case. It's not the same for all modules.

Thanks for sharing this thoughtful article. Personally, I like ABC learning design, but I see your points about the limitations of the generic nature of Gen AI output in this context. I especially agree with you on the importance of having a subject matter expert do the curriculum planning.

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Student Perceptions 2025: Insights from a Group of Pre-sessional International Students at the University of Manchester - Artificial intelligence How do international students preparing to study in the UK view AI? Sue Attewell spoke with a group of pre-sessional students at Manchester, mostly from China, about their hopes, worries and everyday ...

My colleague Sue Attewell leads our stream of work looking at staff and student perceptions of AI.

In a new blog post the focus is with a group of pre-sessional international students.

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Interesting read by @carlessdavid.bsky.social (2025) Feedback Literacy Concepts and Practices: Toward Academic Feedback Literacy, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 57:5, 5-11, DOI: 10.1080/00091383.2025.2539038

The illusion of attendance: a critical study of large-class lectures Large-class university lectures remain commonplace, yet their educational value is contested. While the majority of criticism contrasts transmissive lectures with active learning pedagogies, this c...

Useful article about transmission style lectures and the assumptions that both students and teachers have. The illusion of attendance: a critical study of large-class lectures" by @colinloughlin.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky

How we tested AI search tools Details on the methodology of our questions designed to challenge known AI blind spots

more here: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Review | We tested which AI gave the best answers without making stuff up. One beat ChatGPT. Librarians helped us quiz AI bots with tough trivia, recent events questions and more. Some answers were impressive — others were worse than an old-fashioned Google search.

Geoffrey Fowler ran an in-depth study on this, with librarians to evaluate the AI-generated responses. See his report here (be sure to read his take-aways at the end): www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social

Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup with loads of resources to help you teach university (and other levels) effectively and inclusively. wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky