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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

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The need to rethink our approach to formative assessment in Higher Education

Dr Verona Ní Drisceoil is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Sussex. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). Her current research focuses on transition pedagogy, inequality in education and assessment for learning. 

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Re-imagining approaches to supporting students’ learning from feedback – the hidden curriculum, care-based pedagogies and learning communities

The culmination of the assessment cycle at the end of what has been a particularly challenging year offers an opportunity (once we have caught our breaths!) to revisit our understanding of how we can best support our students to learn

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Three tips for enhancing students’ engagement with feedback

In my many years of experience as an educator I have spent innumerable hours in writing feedback for students’ work. I always thought this was one of the most important elements of my role as a teacher, where I had

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