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Fellowship Connections for Professional Roles: an online event series

When and where is it? The details of the dates and how to join can be found on the Fellowship Connections for Professional Roles sign-up form. Who is it for? This series of online events, named “Fellowship Connections for Professional Roles,” is intended for those who are working towards an Advance HE fellowship but don’t occupy a traditional teaching role […]

Making the most of a multifaceted team

By Emily May and Bethany Witham Our neurodiverse team Here in the LTSU, we’re lucky enough to have a variety of brilliant, neurodiverse minds on the team. This brings with it a variety of strengths, from innovation and creativity, problem solving capability, to reliability and accuracy. To harness these advantages, we have made a collective commitment to making sure everyone […]

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GenAI reading club: resisting the “dehumanizing” effects of generative AI

Join us as we try to broaden our understanding of the new generative technologies impacting the work of staff and students across Higher Education. This is the first of a series of short posts that aim to highlight a piece that we’ve found in some way thought-provoking, and our response(s) to it. Obviously, things are changing apace, and we want […]

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Digital confidence and adapting to change: a conversation

Team members Rachel Bancroft, Rachel Challen and Rosemary Pearce have written a literature review on the emerging concept of digital confidence. This has been particularly relevant in recent times due to the rapid change in the sector, with the pandemic forcing more learning and teaching online. I spoke to Rachel, Rachel and Rosemary to find out a little more about […]

#LTSUReads: Spring Reading

Somehow we are now a third of the way through the year. While the weather may be in flux, Spring has definitely Sprung, and no matter which way we dress for the weather we’re still managing to get it wrong. This time our reading looks at the different uses of the TPACK model from the perspectives of two of our […]

TILT FOLG Symposium 2023 – as told by Twitter

#TILTFOLG23 Nottingham Trent University’s Trent Institute for Learning and Teaching (TILT) held its annual symposium around flexible and online learning, and we were delighted to be able to attend and present. As always, there were too many sessions for us to catch all of them, but some of our takeaways are below.   In its third annual symposium, TILT very much […]

#LTSUReads: February reading

Last month we focused our reading around reflecting on the ChatGPT frenzy, and posted our collated Introduction to ChatGPT. We’ve continued to read along as people have tested, experimented, and started to think about ways to embed it in their practice. This month we’re sharing two perspectives we’ve read on ChatGPT, and – since accessibility is one of our priorities […]

#LTSUReads: An introduction to ChatGPT 

by Bethany Witham and Rachel Bancroft Given our fascination with digital pedagogies, online learning and teaching and the many ways education is evolving and changing, it is probably no surprise that the members of the LTSU are voracious consumers of journal articles, blog posts, and Toots and Tweets a-plenty on all things Learning Technology. As such, we’ve decided to start […]

Going beyond announcements: using news items to enrich students’ experience of a module

The news or announcements feed within an online learning environment can serve as a key strand in enhancing the dialogue between instructor and students throughout a module, increasing what we’ve explored in the past as a sense of “presence”. News posts can be used simply to remind students of upcoming events and assessments, though many of the colleagues we support […]

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Digital Confidence: Spotlight

In our previous blog post Digital Confidence: Springboard and safety net we explained how we see the development of digital confidence in our colleagues as a key part of our role. We discussed how we act as a springboard and a safety net – providing the guidance and information that colleagues need to launch a new idea for teaching and […]

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