LTSU team

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GenAI reading club: What is authorship, anyway?

We’re looking to broaden our understanding of the new generative technologies impacting the work of staff and students across Higher Education, and a large part of this is through reading. This is the second 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 […]

The mother of invention – what have we taken with us from the time of the pandemic?

By Rosemary Pearce In writing a contribution to the brand-new edited volume, Teaching and Learning with Innovative Technologies in Higher Education (Eds. Roushan, Pilkinghorne, Patel, 2025), we’ve taken time to reflect on the practice we’ve observed and supported that may have only come about because of necessity in a difficult situation, but has continued to live on and benefit staff […]

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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

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 feels supported and equipped to succeed. By taking the time to understand our unique ways of thinking and working, we have developed strategies that support all our team members.

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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 […]

Digitally transforming assessment with the SAMR model

by Joseph Kenney and Rosemary Pearce Our team recently attended a presentation on using the SAMR model for transforming assessment by our colleague Rachel Challen (Learning, Teaching and Staff Development Manager for the School of Arts and Humanities at NTU). We spoke to her afterwards to share some of her ideas on how we should be thinking about transforming assessment […]

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Presence: A small group online collaboration case study

As staff and students have been adapting to new and different ways of learning and teaching, finding solutions to the issues this involves is sometimes challenging. The case study of small group online collaboration using Teams and OneNote highlights how readily available tools and services can be combined to provide a genuinely collaborative online and real-time student experience which enables […]

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