While doomscrolling earlier this week – bad habits, but hey! – I caught the Aldi supermarket thread (great doom scrolling!), where the question was posed (paraphrased): if other superma…

Whether for a promotion application, or a form of recognition such as Senior or Principal Fellowship, being able to tell your own story clearly really does matter. In my experience, in promotions a…

I’ve given a few talks recently on assessment in an AI-infused world, and I’ve found myself returning to a question that has been sitting with me for some time: what kind of assessment do we need n…

In my talk about assessment redesign in an age of AI last week at the HE Professional Assessment and Integrity Event , I encouraged a restless rethink where we explore assumptions and norms around …

Pedagogic Action Research (PedAR) is an established approach to enhance teaching and learning in higher education; the global landscape of PedAR along with its methodological features, and areas of...

Pedagogic Action Research (PedAR) is an established approach to enhance teaching and learning in higher education; the global landscape of PedAR along with its methodological features, and areas of...

Writing Partnerships in Higher Education offers a timely account of practical strategies and personal insights designed to help with the process of writing with others. This book articulates the unspo...

In my talk for AdvanceHE today, I tried to offer some principles for navigating this moment of AI change while also considering what the implications of change are for learning, teaching and assess…

Candidates will have to sit assessments in person unless there are exceptional circumstances, says ACCA

In recent talks that I have given about artificial intelligence in learning and assessment, one point has piqued quite a bit of interest. In short – I have argued that pride and joy should be a Nor…

Today I attended a community of practice meeting on artificial intelligence. Communities of practice (CoPs) are a great way of sharing and understanding different ways of working. I’ve been e…

A BBC investigation finds that a host of areas in England are closing waiting lists and others are rationing care.

There’s a notable absence of consideration for students taking resits in both pedagogical and policy conversations. Karen Lander sets out the need for change There’s a striking absence of consideratio...

Professor Antony C. Moss, London South Bank University and Jonathan Neves, Advance HE, explore in greater depth the patterns of work and study which students are now reporting.

Earlier last month I led a ‘training’ session on mentoring for colleagues at a local School Trust (as this is a personal rather than an institutional platform, I won’t name them here). In preparati…

ChatGPT has released its new 'Study Mode'. What is it, and will it actually help students to learn? Or is it simply a way for OpenAI to reclaim territory from third party edtech?

Unlike the West, where universities are still agonizing over how students use AI in their work, top universities in China are going all in.

This morning I ran an invited workshop, with Dr Iain McDonald of Cumbria University, at the Assessment in Higher Education Conference 2025 in Manchester. One of my favourite conferences, just by th…

Last week, I gave a talk at De Montfort University to launch their new Attributes Community of Practice. My talk, “Working with Graduate Attributes in a Living Curriculum,” explored attributes, the…

As leader of our PGCTHE programme, I keep an eye out for resources to help staff teach effectively. These include webinars, podcasts, online toolkits, publications and more. Topics includ…

I recently led a class on action research quality which motivated me to write up a summary answering the question: What does good quality action research look like?  This is not a straightforw…

Although ‘authentic assessment’ is widely used in higher education, its interpretation is often limited to an assessment task's technical relevance. This paper explores a more holistic conceptualis...

As higher education grapples with ensuring assessment validity in an increasingly AI-populated time, institutions and educators are working to establish appropriate boundaries for AI use. However, ...

"We can’t really know what works in the inclusive curriculum domain because we don’t find out!" say Stella Jones-Devitt and Alan Donnelly