In June 2026, I facilitated a workshop at the Assessment in HE conference in Manchester – a conference I strongly recommend to anyone interested in assessment. My session had a clickbait-y ti…

Generative AI’s per-query footprint can be small compared to flying, eating meat, or even Zoom. Until agents show up and compute goes through the roof.

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 15th March at 8pm GMT with guest Danielle Hinton (@hintondm.bsky.social to discuss Brookfield’s Four Lenses! Introduction Educators in Higher Education…

Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 11th March at 8pm GMT with guest Rachel Forsyth to discuss GenAI in higher education. In many conversations about generative AI in higher education, th…

A close look at Grammarly's new AI tools

Commentary on ONL pedagogical approach & design by Stephen Downes. Online learning, e-learning, new media, connectivism, MOOCs, personal learning environments, new literacy, and more

Grades have been criticised for as long as they have existed. For at least a century, scholars have claimed that grades are inaccurate and unreliable; they provide overly simplistic reductions of stud...

Associate Professor Sue Beckingham, Sheffield Hallam University and Professor Peter Hartley, Edge Hill University share insights from their recent work in search of responsible Generative AI.

Academia and activism, how do they go together? I’ve been curious about that for a while, as evidenced by these posts. Today I came across an article that investigates not only academic activism, but ...

Open Practices are collective behaviors and techniques that open up access to educational opportunities. These practices promote and support the use of open educational resources, technologies, and so...

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Gallant, T. B., & Rettinger, D. A. (2025). The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI (Vol. 4). University of Oklahoma Press. This book, written by two experts in academic integrity, tries to move the conversation about GenAI and assessment away from detecting academic misconduct and towards good course design to reduce opportunities for cheating. The book acknowledges the responsibility usually placed on individual teachers to reduce, identify and act on student breaches of accepted academic integrity and tries to offer positive and practical solutions.

My students call it “Chat,” a cute nickname they all seem to have agreed on at some point. They use it to make study guides, interpret essay prompts, and register for classes, turning it loose on t…

The responsibility for assessment security usually resets with individual teachers, who need to balance good assessment design which is equitable and valid with a need to ensure the students did the work themselves. This is pretty challenging in a world with GenAI. In this post I discuss some of the issues and provide a downloadable cribsheet with some mitigation ideas.

The responsibility for assessment security usually resets with individual teachers, who need to balance good assessment design which is equitable and valid with a need to ensure the students did the work themselves. This is pretty challenging in a world with GenAI. In this post I discuss some of the issues and provide a downloadable cribsheet with some mitigation ideas.