S3 Digital Learning

Hello all, it's been a while!

We've been integrating into a new school, meeting loads of new people, getting excited about new projects, and reinventing the team (but not the wheel). Expect more changes to come, but for now we have an exciting new blog post about the value of peer review:

An update! Excitingly, the podcast is now up! You can hear two of us talking about our chapter on #DigitalConfidence and how it relates to #DigitalTransformation at 46:55 on this podcast, and hear about loads of other fascinating chapters in this book besides!

drive.google.com/file/d/1bPYe...

New post! Digital Confidence - the Story So Far, in which we summarise our research journey in this important area, and provide a link to our Digital Confidence workshop materials.

Maybe it's something you could use to explore what #DigitalConfidence looks like in your context? #LTinHE

I went to two Accessibility events in June, both featured AI heavily. I've consolidated thoughts here.

I guess the blog post is about cutting through the hype to find the humanity and ensuring "nothing about us without us" - disabled folk need to be front and center of any solutions given to them.

I do miss the wibble-wobble noise they made though

Transformative Practice in Higher Education: Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning This insightful book transforms crisis reflections into longer term guidance for a responsive, engaged pedagogy within contemporary higher education (HE). In recent years, HE institutions worldwide ha...

Life is a hurricane (here in Duckberg) - we're still around, working hard, looking forward to a productive 25/26 and planning exciting new projects.

Right now we're working on our bit of a podcast about the book we contributed to (linked below) - we'll link the podcast as soon as it's available!

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We are delighted to present this series of practice spotlights, sharing snapshots of just some of the emerging practice and discussions about #GenAI and #LearningAndTeaching in #ArtsAndHumanities.

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@abbis.bsky.social with the correct link this time! :D

A line drawing of a hand holding a pencil that has drawn a speech bubble.

We are delighted to present this series of practice spotlights, sharing snapshots of just some of the emerging practice and discussions about #GenAI and #LearningAndTeaching in #ArtsAndHumanities.

ntuhum-ltsu.com/category/gen...

GAAD Thursday, May 15, 2025, help us celebrate the 14th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)! The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, ...

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That's always such a good shout, it makes the conversation move more naturally and saves awkward pauses while looking around for questions. It'll be awesome! \o/

Recent blog posts from our team include:

- how our colleague is boosting employability skills with Teams
- tips on working with neurodivergent team members
- how we've decided to talk about genAI
- places we've been and interesting talks we've seen

Come take a look! ntuhum-ltsu.com

I very much found this while teaching in secondary, too!

We love this response! :)

If everything goes according to plan, we will very shortly be putting up 5 case studies of GenAI use in Arts and Humanities on our blog :)

Incredibly grateful for the engagement and fantastic questions during our session on Digital Confidence today from #udigcap attendees - we had a great time, please get in touch if you'd like to know more!

I'm presenting here with my colleagues about our digital confidence project today - looking forward to hearing what people think about this oft-mentioned, seldom discussed area. #udigcap

We're excited to be presenting at UCISA's #udigcap Spotlight25 conference this morning!

Our talk on 'Developing a shared understanding of digital confidence' fits well within the theme of 'Future-Proof: Empowering Staff for the Next Wave of Digital Transformation'

www.ucisa.ac.uk/Events/2025/...

New blog post! A practice spotlight: how we collaborated with a colleague to make Teams a collaborative space for students on a Media course. They were able to develop their practical skills, practice networking, and start to build their future professional networks.

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Also, for ND students, a question is not an attack or a challenge. (Also worth training all students to ask questions supportively!) Rejection sensitivity exacerbates the already dominance-seeking questioning that frequently shows up in these spaces.

When editing - make the text unfamiliar. It's incredibly easy to skim over something you've read a thousand times, and miss an error you've missed a thousand times before because you know what you expect to see. Change the text to be in comic sans, and suddenly it's all visible (and hideous!) again.

We were delighted to hold a Digital Confidence workshop at the Research In Distance Education (RIDE) 2025 conference last month, and in this blog post we've shared thoughts about a couple of the great presentations we saw around the theme of alternative forms of #DigitalAssessment.

Looking forward to dipping into this issue this week. Our work on digital confidence has shown it has links to wellbeing and resilience, and can support learners (students and staff) through digital transformation - we can see the links to this work on compassion and pedagogies of care!

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Braced in the office for the heating turning off for the year - spring is surrounding us but not yet bedded in! If you’re still in the mood for tucking up with reading, we’ve got a new page to help you navigate our blog and find the specific areas that interest you:

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Also a really good way of working for staff teams!

New blog post! We've been working on this one for a little while.

This post explores how we talk about AI - the metaphors we use, the metaphors we choose not to use, and the way we work to emphasise user agency in everything we say about generative AI.

I do think the idea that there is one homogenous group of neurodivergent students is an issue above - one size definitely doesn't fit all, and my ADHD brain would rebel at having only one thing to focus on!

@abbis.bsky.social we promised you this one a long time ago, sorry about the wait! :D