We are delighted to present this short series of practice spotlights, sharing snapshots of just some of the emerging practice and discussions about Generative AI (GenAI) and learning and teaching in Arts and Humanities. As a team, we have been drawing together these conversations with our colleagues as part of a new toolkit – which will be available to colleagues […]
Phil Leonard is a Professor in the Department of Humanities. Phil described two assessment activities in which he has asked students to interact critically and reflectively with Generative AI (GenAI) tools on the same module. In the two years he has run these activities, he observed a stark difference in student prior knowledge of the tools. How did Phil use […]
Right now our team is doing a lot of reading and thinking about the new generative technologies impacting the work of staff and students across Higher Education. We want to highlight that these are our developing thoughts within a developing situation, and we are always subject to fluctuation and new influences as we continue to learn. What we’re up to […]
Jane is a Senior Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes. She works with students from a range of disciplines in her Pre-sessional Course Leader and In-sessional Academic English Co-ordinator roles. Jane has carefully considered her use of Generative AI (GenAI) tools, weighing the time she invests in a task against the time it will take students to complete it, and […]
Julie is the MA Magazine Journalism course leader. In this practice spotlight, Julie outlined how integrating Generative AI (GenAI) into learning activities with students could serve a dual purpose. She talks about how, as well as cultivating better understanding of how to effectively use this technology, many of the skills developed through the activities overlap with those being furthered as […]
Simon and Matt are Senior Lecturers in Journalism and Media. In his module, Simon decided to ask students to critically engage with AI generated summaries of theories in their subject area, critiquing or extending the AI summaries as appropriate. Simon has also added a discussion around Generative AI (GenAI) to his seminars, encouraging students to think deeply about how using […]
Right now our team is doing a lot of reading and thinking about the new generative technologies impacting the work of staff and students across Higher Education. This is the fourth (and final, for now) of a series of short posts that aim to highlight a piece of writing on the topic that we’ve found in some way thought-provoking, and […]
How can students from different modules and courses collaborate in a digital space? This is the intriguing question that we talked about with Richard Hunter late last year, when he was thinking about ways to embed opportunities to build networking skills throughout his Media Communications course, and within Media as a whole. It was important to him that this was […]
We were delighted to attend the second day of the Research In Distance Education (RIDE) 2025 conference last month. On our first visit back in 2023 (see the recording of our 2023 presentation here) we found it to be a warm, inspiring and thought-provoking space to explore some of the emerging and persistent challenges and opportunities for digital and online […]
In our role as a team that supports digital and online learning and teaching, we have been thinking a lot recently about generative AI. How we use it, how we support it, and how we talk about and describe it. In this blog post, we will share some of our thinking around this. Obviously, things are changing apace, and we […]
