AI and GenAI

Generative AI conversations: practice spotlights from Arts and Humanities

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 […]

“Some problems can snowball” Generative AI practice spotlight: Duncan Grewcock

Duncan is a Principal Lecturer in Museum & Heritage Studies in the Department of Humanities Duncan discussed how his evaluation of how students should be interacting with Generative AI (GenAI) is done on a case-by-case basis, with his various modules containing different statements that he has written to guide and inform students. He also explained how he sees the challenges […]

“It’s changing fast” – A Generative AI practice spotlight: Phil Leonard

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 […]

“I want to meet students where they are.” Generative AI Practice Spotlight: Jane Vickers

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 […]

“It was immediately clear what a difference it was going to make” – A Generative AI Practice Spotlight: Julie Nightingale

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 […]

GenAI reading club: Trying times for the essay

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 […]

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What we talk about when we talk about selves

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 […]

GenAI reading club: can GenAI do the hard reading for us?

We’re doing a lot of reading and thinking right now about the new generative technologies impacting the work of staff and students across Higher Education. This is the third 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 […]

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