Welcome to the first of our Spotlight on AI in Education bulletins. With how fast things are moving, this will help you cut through the noise and catch what’s important. The bulletin highlights on-the-ground practice, institutional perspectives and trends in generative AI use across the…
Simon Overton: I’m very happy to welcome Dan Axson, Learning Technologies Manager in the Educational Enhancement team here at Sussex. Welcome, Dan. Dan Axson: Hi, Simon. SO: So it’s the start of a new academic year and the theme of…
Accurate transcripts are important for people who need them, whether it be for deaf students, international students or perhaps where there is a lot of technical language. For each of these groups, inaccurate transcripts can be severely impactful when it…
by Dan Axson, Learning Technologies Manager, University of Sussex In my previous posts I put forward the first two of (what I believe are) three key attributes of any Learning Technologist (LT): kindness to yourself and others and (using the…
In my last post I said I’d be exploring more on the topic of what is a Learning Technologist (LT). There has been a lot of excellent work on this of course, detailing the varied and complex roles, tasks, job…
I’m hoping to tell you something you already know. This post is as much a celebration of the team I work in as it is a mission statement for the year ahead. This is a post about kindness. First, some…
If you stand near me long enough, I’ll start talking about digital skills and if I had a soapbox, I’d be standing on it. I think it’s one of the most important areas of personal and professional development, however it’s…
Yes, we’re of course talking about feedback. So, what is feedback? This excerpt taken from our Effective Feedback page on the Educational Enhancement website, sums it up nicely. ‘Effective feedback involves sense-making. It should help students to make sense of…
