The next meeting of the University of Sussex ‘AI CoP’ will take place on 8th June, 1-3pm in the Library Teaching Room. This will be a salon-style event designed to provide opportunities to reflect on 25/26 and discuss your ideas,…
Blog Archives
Inclusivity Week | Monday 31st March 2025
Workshops: Reading and Note-Making with AI (Martin Brown) and Designing Inclusive Learning Activities (Brena Collyer de Aguiar & Alice Taylor) The sun was shining on the first day of Inclusivity Week—a fitting backdrop to a day that centred student voice,…
Tagged with: Artificial intelligence (AI), Inclusive and student-centred, inclusivity, Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Developing chemistry student employability through assessment design
Mark Bagley is a Professor of Organic Chemistry in the School of Life Sciences. Mark delivers many of the taught modules in Synthetic Organic Chemistry as part of the Chemistry degree programmes offered by the University and leads a vibrant…
Tagged with: Applied and relevant, Artificial intelligence (AI), Assessment and Feedback
Posted in Case Studies
Posted in Case Studies
Insights from the Sussex Education Festival, 2024
In July this year, 90 colleagues from across the University came together to share their experiences and insights into teaching, learning and assessment at Sussex. Over two days, both online and in person, the Education Festival covered a whole range…
Tagged with: Applied and relevant, Artificial intelligence (AI), belonging, Cohesive and connected, curriculum design, Inclusive and student-centred
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
AI and Academic Integrity: Implementing University Guidelines in Assignments
Dr Rona Hart is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Positive Psychology in the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex and is the Course Leader for The Psychology of Kindness and Wellbeing at Work. What I Did In January…
Tagged with: Artificial intelligence (AI), Assessment and Feedback, Cohesive and connected, Digital and data futures
Posted in Case Studies
Posted in Case Studies
Oral assessment as an AI-proof assessment tool
Dr Louise Newnham, a teaching focussed Senior Lecturer in Genome Stability in the School of Life Sciences, shares insights from her experience of using, since 2018/19, an oral exam (viva) as part of the assessment for a 30 credit masters…
Tagged with: Artificial intelligence (AI), Assessment and Feedback, Cohesive and connected
Posted in Case Studies
Posted in Case Studies
Assessment in a world of Generative AI: What might we lose?
Introduction For the most part, assessment in higher education is viewed in the negative as opposed to the positive. It is something to be endured, worked through, marked and managed. Assessment causes significant anxiety and stress for students and staff…
Tagged with: Artificial intelligence (AI), Assessment and Feedback, authentic assessment, Cohesive and connected
Posted in Articles
Posted in Articles
Strategies for making quantitative assessments more AI resilient
In this case study, Dr Myrna Hennequin, Lecturer in Economics, shares her strategies for making online quantitative assessments more AI resilient. What I did I redesigned the online assessments for the module Quantitative Methods for Business and Economics: Maths (QMBE…
Tagged with: Artificial intelligence (AI), Assessment and Feedback, Inclusive and student-centred
Posted in Case Studies
Posted in Case Studies
Developing academic literacies in the era of artificial intelligence – part 2
This post follows on from an earlier post: developing academic literacies – part 1 If ‘write an essay’ is an instruction to students that follows a period of input on a particular topic, then students using artificial intelligence to…
Tagged with: Artificial intelligence (AI), Assessment and Feedback, curriculum design, Inclusive and student-centred
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog