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We are a digital learning team supporting the school of Social Sciences at Nottingham Trent University. Interests: Digital confidence, gen AI, supporting neurodivergence, inclusive practice... Read more here: ntuhum-ltsu.com/navigating-the-blog

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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Hello all, it's been a while! We've been integrating into a new school, meeting loads of new people, getting excited about new projects, and reinventing the team (but not the wheel). Expect more changes to come, but for now we have an exciting new blog post about the value of peer review:
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Playtesting: how establishing a peer feedback session changed the game – LTSU Blog
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
An update! Excitingly, the podcast is now up! You can hear two of us talking about our chapter on #DigitalConfidence and how it relates to #DigitalTransformation at 46:55 on this podcast, and hear about loads of other fascinating chapters in this book besides! drive.google.com/file/d/1bPYe...
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Transformative Practice: podcast
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
New post! Digital Confidence - the Story So Far, in which we summarise our research journey in this important area, and provide a link to our Digital Confidence workshop materials. Maybe it's something you could use to explore what #DigitalConfidence looks like in your context? #LTinHE
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Digital confidence – the story so far – LTSU Blog
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Martin Nutbeem @martinnutbeem.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
I went to two Accessibility events in June, both featured AI heavily. I've consolidated thoughts here. I guess the blog post is about cutting through the hype to find the humanity and ensuring "nothing about us without us" - disabled folk need to be front and center of any solutions given to them.
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Accessibility and AI: Reflections from June 2025 Events – Digital Education Office blog
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Life is a hurricane (here in Duckberg) - we're still around, working hard, looking forward to a productive 25/26 and planning exciting new projects. Right now we're working on our bit of a podcast about the book we contributed to (linked below) - we'll link the podcast as soon as it's available!
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Transformative Practice in Higher Education: Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning
This insightful book transforms crisis reflections into longer term guidance for a responsive, engaged pedagogy within contemporary higher education (HE). In recent years, HE institutions worldwide ha...
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
We are delighted to present this series of practice spotlights, sharing snapshots of just some of the emerging practice and discussions about #GenAI and #LearningAndTeaching in #ArtsAndHumanities. ntuhum-ltsu.com/category/gen...
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
We are delighted to present this series of practice spotlights, sharing snapshots of just some of the emerging practice and discussions about #GenAI and #LearningAndTeaching in #ArtsAndHumanities. ntuhum-ltsu.com/category/gen...
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Alex Spiers @alexspiers.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Happy Global Accessibility Day accessibility.day
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GAAD
Thursday, May 15, 2025, help us celebrate the 14th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)! The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning about digital access and inclusion, ...
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Recent blog posts from our team include: - how our colleague is boosting employability skills with Teams - tips on working with neurodivergent team members - how we've decided to talk about genAI - places we've been and interesting talks we've seen Come take a look! ntuhum-ltsu.com
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LTSU Blog – Learning, Teaching and Educational Technology news from the School of Arts & Humanities at NTU
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Incredibly grateful for the engagement and fantastic questions during our session on Digital Confidence today from #udigcap attendees - we had a great time, please get in touch if you'd like to know more!
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Roseatron 3000 @rosepear.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I'm presenting here with my colleagues about our digital confidence project today - looking forward to hearing what people think about this oft-mentioned, seldom discussed area. #udigcap
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
We're excited to be presenting at UCISA's #udigcap Spotlight25 conference this morning! Our talk on 'Developing a shared understanding of digital confidence' fits well within the theme of 'Future-Proof: Empowering Staff for the Next Wave of Digital Transformation' www.ucisa.ac.uk/Events/2025/...
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Spotlight25 - UCISA
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
New blog post! A practice spotlight: how we collaborated with a colleague to make Teams a collaborative space for students on a Media course. They were able to develop their practical skills, practice networking, and start to build their future professional networks. ntuhum-ltsu.com/case-studies...
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Learning to network, and networking to learn – LTSU Blog
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
We were delighted to hold a Digital Confidence workshop at the Research In Distance Education (RIDE) 2025 conference last month, and in this blog post we've shared thoughts about a couple of the great presentations we saw around the theme of alternative forms of #DigitalAssessment.
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Thinking about RIDE 2025: exploring alternative assessments – LTSU Blog
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Looking forward to dipping into this issue this week. Our work on digital confidence has shown it has links to wellbeing and resilience, and can support learners (students and staff) through digital transformation - we can see the links to this work on compassion and pedagogies of care!
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Braced in the office for the heating turning off for the year - spring is surrounding us but not yet bedded in! If you’re still in the mood for tucking up with reading, we’ve got a new page to help you navigate our blog and find the specific areas that interest you: ntuhum-ltsu.com/navigating-t...
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
New blog post! We've been working on this one for a little while. This post explores how we talk about AI - the metaphors we use, the metaphors we choose not to use, and the way we work to emphasise user agency in everything we say about generative AI.
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What we talk about when we talk about selves – LTSU Blog
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
New blog post! We've been working on this one for a little while. This post explores how we talk about AI - the metaphors we use, the metaphors we choose not to use, and the way we work to emphasise user agency in everything we say about generative AI.
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What we talk about when we talk about selves – LTSU Blog
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Bryan Doppel @bryandoppel.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Should we be welcoming AI to our campuses with open arms? Or should we be welcoming *conversations about* AI to our campuses?
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This is a great distillation of what study skills are - it's not always recognised that interpersonal skill development is a vital part of education, and that how to ask for, receive and make the most of help and feedback needs to be taught alongside the content for successful learners.
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Ooh, Thursday morning means the chance to read through last night's #LTHEchat and immerse ourselves in the fascinating conversations and insights! Always a great start to the day 😍
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Alt: Tom Hanks in You've Got Mail, looking delighted at something on a computer screen and rubbing his hands together in anticipation of responding.
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
We were very excited to receive copies of the new book we contributed to - Transformative Practice in Higher Education: Innovative approaches to teaching and learning. We have a chapter about Digital Confidence and how we think it supports navigators of digital change.
The cover of Transformative Practice in Higher Education: Innovative approaches to teaching and learning (Eds Alicja Syska, Carina Buckley, Gita Sedghi and Nicola Grayson)Chapter title: what digital confidence practice and research has taught us about supporting digital change, by Rachel Bancroft, Rachel Challen, Amanda Neylon and Bethany Witham.
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
New blog post! We'll slow down at some point, but it is not this day... #genAI reading club: we share what we've learned from a paper about student use of generative AI - 'Reading at university in the time of GenAI' by Corbin et al. (paper is linked in the blog post!)
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GenAI reading club: can GenAI do the hard reading for us? – LTSU Blog
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Many thanks to @mattcornock.bsky.social for writing up such thoughtful notes about our #RIDE2025 session on Digital Confidence - fantastic food for thought - as well as giving a great overview of some of the other parallel sessions we missed! mattcornock.co.uk/online-learn...
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The journeys taken: Research in Distance Education and E-learning Conference 2025 – Day 2 – Matt Cornock
This is the second post writing up my experience at RIDE 2025, the Research in Distance Education and E-learning conference at the University of London (see Day 1 where I discuss themes of Context and...
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Quick morning read! on #genAI, authorship, and the awkward spaces we need to navigate where the two meet. #EduSky #LTHE
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
New blog post: "Do those of us in Higher Education need to redefine what we mean by authorship, now that #GenAI is becoming intertwined with research and writing processes"? Some of our thoughts inspired by Porsdam Mann et al.'s ethical framework for responsible use of LLMs in scholarship. #EduSky
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GenAI reading club: What is authorship, anyway? – LTSU Blog
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat which will explore strategies to integrate study skills into the curriculum, with Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel @drckt.bsky.social and Emily Nordmann @emilynordmann.bsky.social on Wednesday 8-9pm GMT. Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2025/03/16/l...
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We love these too! I get to plant some chamomile 😁
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We'd definitely argue for Digital Confidence - although we see it as a mindset you travel with, rather than a skill you can achieve! We'll be talking about this at University of London's #RIDE2025 conference on Friday, and keep an eye out for us posting about upcoming publications!
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
A fantastic #LTHEchat once again, this time about AI in a #postplagiarism landscape. It's so illuminating to get glimpses of the teaching philosophies and beliefs underpinning these fascinating conversations around genAI, and I hope that students get to see these articulated too!
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
We had a great run through of our #RIDE2025 presentation yesterday with some deeply appreciated willing colleagues. There were some great conversations about digital confidence and how it might support effective digital learning. We're really excited to present in London on Friday!
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Our new blog post (linked below) gives some detail about our contribution to the book Teaching and Learning with Innovative Technologies in Higher Education: Real world case studies (ed. Roushan, Polikinghorne and Patel, 2025) 🎉
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The mother of invention – what have we taken with us from the time of the pandemic? – LTSU Blog
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NLISN @nlisn.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
A brilliant research article from @libraryleadpipe.bsky.social. Navigating the #Academic Hiring Process with #Disabilities ➡️ www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2022/hiring-... #Employment #Disability #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent #Employment #Librarian #Library
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Navigating the Academic Hiring Process with Disabilities – In the Library with the Lead Pipe
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Big question of the day! We often describe our work as being a Springboard, Safety net (ntuhum-ltsu.com/digital-peda...) and Spotlight (ntuhum-ltsu.com/digital-conf...) - and we’re always thinking about what more we can do to start conversations earlier!
A whiteboard with a lightbulb drawn on it. Underneath is the question - ‘People see us as problem solvers - how do we encourage other conversations?’ Surrounded by question marks
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
A really interesting view on feedback, and a great basis for making more reflective learners who will be able to apply what they've learned - and continue reflecting and learning - in employment.
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Appraisal time is rolling around for us again - when you work as a team, it can be challenging to disentangle your particular threads from the excellent work you've completed together. If you've got a second, reskeet with something awesome in #LTHE you've personally achieved this academic year!
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
We've been having interesting conversations this afternoon about learning *from* mistakes and learning *to avoid* mistakes, and what skills, attributes and learning behaviours these represent. And, perhaps most importantly, how these are carried forward - e.g. *avoiding* doesn't build flexibility.
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Good morning Skyline! :) Lots on today - blog writing, colleague drop-in, a query about weird HTML formatting, and (very excitingly!) design work on our session for #RIDE2025. We'll be running a workshop about digital confidence on Friday afternoon, and we're really excited to meet people there!
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RIDE 2025: Empowering and Sustaining Change
The 19th Centre for Online and Distance Education Research in Distance Education (RIDE) conference: 13-14 March 2025 at Senate House, London and online.
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Opened up Bluesky with actual Blue Sky outside, first time in a while! It's nice to start a Monday morning feeling optimistic, even if you have to hit the ground running. We're working on our knowledge pool about #EDI and #genAI today, planning how to embed AI guidance, and catching up on reading!
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This is so important! We really try to encourage our colleagues to talk to us at the start of a project, as retroactive inclusive design is so much more work.
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Lovely description of an ideal inclusive future in education! We're definitely hoping for/working towards this.
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
How to instil these inclusive design practices in our students? Learn with and from them!
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Some great thoughts about how to make professional development on inclusive design more engaging and accessible for educators.
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
We agree, and it's not a failing, and that's what education/learning designers and support teams like us are here to help with! Especially considering education's outsized workload, it's important to make use of all of the resource and additional brains 🧠 and skills available to you. #edusky
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Sandra Flynn, PhD @sandraflynn.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
A1. #LTHEchat To me, 'designing for diversity' means considering as many user needs as I can for my teaching design, and learning new approaches to address user needs I'm not experienced with.
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Reciprocal working: Having an absolutely fascinating chat with colleagues about the way they use generative AI in their current practice with students, and promising in exchange to send really detailed feedback for their appraisals about the impact they've had on school conversations. Mutual win!
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Doing some reading (on paper, as an #ADHD accommodation) this morning. A Royal Society paper from 2018 to help inform a blog post on AI and how we talk about it. It’s easy to get swept up in recency bias and forget that #AI is far more than LLMs!
A printed paper with a blue highlighter resting on it. The paper is from The Royal Society, entitled Portrayals and perceptions of AI and why they matter. The image is an illustration of the Mechanical Turk, a chess playing machine fraudulently portrayed as an automaton through the 18th and 19th centuries.
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S3 Digital Learning @s3digitallearning.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Blimey, some deep thoughts about concept mapping this morning! The tensions between unstructured personal response and some sort of scaffolding, between capturing a moment in time and being able to refer back to a usable resource in the future... do you have a preferred model or style? #EduSky
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abbi @abbis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
A5. Support each other. Most institutions have digital education specialists and education developers with the skills and remit to ensure a rounded and well-communicated curriculum and practice. Include them, work with them, review with them. If you have recurring issues, discuss them. #LTHEchat
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