December 2025 round-up of AI events and news and upcoming events.
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Spotlight on AI in Education: December 2025
Tagged with: AI
Posted in AI, AI CoP, digital skills, Educational Enhancement, Learning Technologies, Professional Development, Technology Enhanced Learning
Posted in AI, AI CoP, digital skills, Educational Enhancement, Learning Technologies, Professional Development, Technology Enhanced Learning
Five New Padlet Features for Higher Education To Try Today
by Rachael Thomas, Learning Technologist, University of Sussex Since Padlet was launched in 2008, it has become one of the most popular educational tools used here at the University of Sussex. Unlike many online teaching aids, it allows for synchronous…
What is a Learning Technologist and how a train to Huddersfield helped me find the answer
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…
How technology has helped deliver better professional services
This blog usually concerns itself with learning technologies, but this week I am looking at some of the advances in the technology that Professional Services staff use to support teaching, learning, assessment and the general student experience. I know we…
Posted in digital skills
Digital literacy and capability in school-leavers
The Educational Enhancement team has published two blog posts recently which address digital literacy. Dan Axson wrote about the expectations on university faculty and Ty Knight wrote about the experience of our undergraduates. I will attempt to complete the trilogy…
Why we still need to talk about digital skills in 2023
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…
Tagged with: digital accessiblity, Digital capability, Digital literacy
Posted in Accessibility, digital skills
Posted in Accessibility, digital skills
The Great Firewall of China: restricted access to commonly used websites and resources
Thankyou for reading this EE blog post this is representative at the time it was written. In the current climate of travel restrictions, shielding and limits to student numbers on campus, the student body is much more dispersed than in…
Tagged with: access, distance learning, resources
Posted in Blended learning, Canvas, digital skills, Learning Design, Learning Technologies
Posted in Blended learning, Canvas, digital skills, Learning Design, Learning Technologies
4 top TEL tips for videos
This short video will take you through four quick top TEL tips which can help you improve the quality of your videos when you’re recording yourself. Tips include: Positioning. Ensure you are in the centre of frame of your camera…
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