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Equity Unbound @equityunbound.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
🎙️Join @virnarossi.bsky.social in a panel + reflection on rethinking tasks, briefs, and feedback to make assessment more meaningful. 🗓️Monday, July 7 1:00–2:00 PM GMT 📝Register for MYFest25: bit.ly/MYFest25regi... Fee Waiver: email us on unboundeq@gmail.com #HigherEd #Teaching #Assessment #MYFEST25
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MYFest25: Mid-Year Festival 2025
Choose-ur-own-learning journey: AI, Imagination, digital literacies, community building, critical pedagogy, wellbeing & joy.
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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Great stuff in here including TEMPLATES!!!!!!! Thanks @mrrablin.bsky.social www.edutopia.org/article/15-f...
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15 Formative Assessment Hacks to Boost Students’ Learning
Common formative assessment techniques can work a little better with these simple tweaks.
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Q3 What examples have you seen of music being used effectively to support or enhance teaching and learning? Reply with A3 #LTHEChat and your response
Student wearing headphones, taking notes and working on a laptop.
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The Association of National Teaching Fellows @ntfellows.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
It's not too late to book a place at the #ANTF2025 Symposium taking place in beautiful Hereford! Take a look at the delegate pack for information on travel and accommodation ntf-association.com/wp-content/u...
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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. #Arts www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
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Petition: Make the arts part of UK National Renewal | Campaign for the Arts
The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. The arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.
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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
#LoveLD - love tonight's chat: #LTHEchat 322: Postplagiarism: Teaching and Learning in an Age of Artificial Intelligence lthechat.com/2025/03/10/l...
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#LTHEchat 322: Postplagiarism: Teaching and Learning in an Age of Artificial Intelligence
Led by Prof. Sarah Elaine Eaton @saraheaton.bsky.social In higher education, we find ourselves at a fascinating inflection point. The emergence of powerful artificial intelligence tools has forever…
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Sally Brown @profsallybrown.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
@philrace.bsky.social and I are Very pleased to be told today on World Book day that our Lecturers Toolit will be published on 16th April. We will have discount flyers soon
Copy of the Sixth edition of the Lecturers Toolkit in rather nice shades of turquoise blue and green
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Michelle Morgan ITSE -Improving the Student Experience @it-se.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A must have 👇
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Remi Kalir @remikalir.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Six weeks until "Re/Marks on Power: How Annotation Inscribes History, Literacy, and Justice" is published! Pre-order today or wait until mid-April for the open access version from @mitpress.bsky.social Direct to Open program. #literacies #AcademicSky #EduSky #BookSky mitpress.mit.edu/978026255103...
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Re/Marks on Power
Annotation—the seemingly simple act of marking a text—is often diminished as a marginal practice. It is prohibited in physical objects and considered irr...
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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A small reminder that there is more to literatures work than reviewing patthomson.net/2025/03/03/l...
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literatures – look for blind spots
One of the problems with literatures work is that you deal with what’s published. And once you’ve accumulated what’s out there, you use them. You might find a definition or categories drawn from th…
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Dr Lee Fallin EdD @leefallin.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Hosting #LTHEchat 318: Designing for Diverse Learners:
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Hosting #LTHEchat 318: Designing for Diverse Learners - Dr Lee Fallin
Last week we took Designing for Diverse Learners to #LTHEchat. Catch up on the dialogue or read the full blog here.
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Q3. How can we help non-game playing educators use games in learning situations? #LTHEChat
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Q5. How can we best use games in assessment of learning? Do you have any examples? #LTHEChat
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Last question Q6. Game-based learning design takes time. How best can we collaborate on and share our games for HE? #LTHEChat
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Q4. What role can students play in designing games to support their learning, and how can we facilitate this? #LTHEChat
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Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
A week from today!
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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
#LoveLD love the L&T Chat Show podcast double bill, with Carys Watts on 'Learning to Fail', helping her enterprise students reach their potential and Virna Rossi on 'Evidencing Impact', a must for anyone thinking about promotion, fellowship or NTF. open.spotify.com/show/7CyKtc2...
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L&T Chat Show
Podcast · Roger Saunders · Introducing new ideas for teaching and learning in higher education. A series of short interviews looking at practical methods for enhancing academic activities and student ...
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Virna Rossi @virnarossi.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Looking forward to this #LTHEchat #edusky
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
There's lots I can't control right now but I did create a fun escape room/puzzle box activity as a review for my undergrad social cognition class and watching them race through the puzzles today brought me joy 😍 1/
Plastic black ammo box locked with a 5-letter combination lock
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat which will explore designing for diverse learners with Lee Fallin @leefallin.bsky.social, Tom Tomlinson @tomtomlinson.bsky.social and Gemma Spencer @gemmaspencer.bsky.social on Wednesday 8-9pm GMT. Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2025/02/09/l...
A diverse group learning around a table.
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Kate Gilliver @penarthkate.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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Good Morning Vietnam Abbreviations
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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
A5 Reveal the magic of how to do University, train and provide peer support. Can’t help think most of HE is about punishment not praise 🤔 #LTHEChat
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Eamon Costello @eam0.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Q6. By hacking the curriculum and showing others the way through systems that with the best will in the world will never ever be fully accessible or visible to learners. If you know the way show the way. Don't wait for faculty to do everything. Some teachers are heroes many are not. #LTHEchat
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Kyle Niemis @kyleniemis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Just gonna leave this here—THIS is what makes Quizizz one of a kind. Accessibility isn’t an afterthought—it comes first. 💜 #AccessibilityMatters #InclusiveEducation #EdTechForAll #UDL #AccessibleEdTech #EquityInEducation #EdTech @quizizz.bsky.social
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Sally Brown @profsallybrown.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Yes we are very likely to have expectations that all the new students will understand practices and language that are second nature to us but alien to new ‘non traditional’ students #lthechat
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Amanda Seys @amandaseys.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Perfect timing for me as I am about to start writing my senior fellowship application. Thankyou!
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Virna Rossi @virnarossi.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
A big thank you to Roger Saunders for having me on his podcast, it was an excellent experience. In the episode we discuss evidencing #impact for #promotions and #fellowships (such as NTF) Hope the few highlights I shared are useful. #LTHEchat #edusky #NTF open.spotify.com/episode/4DEa...
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S5E22 - Virna Rossi on Evidencing Impact
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Dr Richard Harris @richharrisleeds.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Looking forward to facilitating tonight's #LTHEchat on the hidden curriculum of higher education. Join us at 8pm!
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
New #WeeklyResourceRoundup with items about Gen AI, inclusive teaching, de-colonising the curriculum, active learning, assessment, trust/compassion/belonging in education, and more! wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #EduSky #AcademicSky #AberPGCTHE
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.
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Virna Rossi @virnarossi.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
open.spotify.com/episode/4DEa... In the podcast Roger Saunders asks me questions about evidencing impact for promotions and fellowships (for instance NTF). I share some highlights that I hope will be useful for others. #LTHEchat #NTF #edusky
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S5E22 - Virna Rossi on Evidencing Impact
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Nathalie Tasler 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪 @drntasler.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
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@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Join us Wednesday at 8pm GMT for #LTHEchat to discuss the Hidden Curriculum led by Professor Pam Birtill @diervilla.bsky.social, Dr Richard Harris, and Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social lthechat.com/2025/02/03/l...
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#LTHEchat 317: The Hidden Curriculum
Led by Professor Pam Birtill @diervilla.bsky.social, Dr Richard Harris, and Dr Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social The Hidden Curriculum The hidden curriculum in higher education shapes student…
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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Hats off to anyone in UK academia right now who is turning up for work, marking essays, meeting students, giving lectures, holding seminars, being there for colleagues and also facing the threat of redundancy, voluntary or compulsory. It’s a grim and surreal time #UKhigherEd
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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 03/02/2025
Queen’s University Belfast has become the latest UK higher education institution to launch a voluntary severance scheme, with unions warning that 270 jobs are set to go, reports @chrishavergal.bsky.social. ‣ @timeshighered.bsky.social · #academicsky ·
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Union says 270 jobs to go as Queen’s seeks voluntary redundancies
Russell Group member says number of roles going yet to be determined, with compulsory departures not on agenda
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Danielle M Hinton 🇦🇺🌏 @hintondm.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Thanks @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social for sharing this epic page www.medievalists.net/2023/09/medi... #LTHEchat #PGCHE #PCAP #PGCTLHE
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Medieval teachers complaining about their students - Medievalists.net
It is not too difficult to come across teachers talking about how bad their students are. However, even in medieval times there was a lot to complain about when it came to student performance.
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Dr. Sarah Parkes @grainparkes.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Two weeks' worth of #WeeklyResourceRoundup today, what a rich harvest of online events and resources to support learning and teaching. #AberPGCTHE wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2...
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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup features FutureTeacher FutureLearn @jisc.bsky.social @qaaforhe.bsky.social EmpowerEDWebinars @dustinhosseini.bsky.social LivUniCIE @altuk.bsky.social and more. Topics: #inclusion #GenAI #accessbility #assessment #reflection #engagement. #EduSky #AcademicSky #AberPGCTHE
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Virna Rossi @virnarossi.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Great question, this is THE bottleneck If you remove the final ‘?’ and start reading from ‘HE…’ you get the statement of truth #lthechat A6
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Nathalie Tasler 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇩🇪 @drntasler.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
PPS: can we decolonise research methods? Particularly in SoTL when we try to capture student (and colleague) voices?! A4 #LTHEchat
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Prof. Pam Birtill @diervilla.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A4 examples of modules (and their assessments) where there are no race awarding gaps. In my own practice I found scaffolded groupwork eliminated awarding gaps #LTHEchat
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@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A4 It would be co-created with students of colour and not from assumptions made of what effective support should be #LTHEchat
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Virna Rossi @virnarossi.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Great shout out for the impact of PGCerts 😊 #lthechat
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Jorge Freire @jamdsf123.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A2 the longer I studied and then taught the more assessment, useful and important at it is, seemed like a choreographed process of evaluating expected behaviour. There are many conventions in assessment and expected good practices that are shaped unfairly & disadvantage students of colour #lthechat
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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Q1: In what ways do you think teaching in HE might be experienced unevenly by students of colour - can you provide examples? #LTHEchat
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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
This is also what annoys me about companies selling off articles and books to train AI. I can’t get access to that as a scholar without major fees paid by me or my library system. Why does AI get it?
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Sandra Sinfield @danceswithcloud.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
#LTHEchat Weds 29th Jan - 8-9 GMT in Blue Sky: lthechat.com/2025/01/27/c...
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#LTHEchat 316: Closing the Race Award Gap: A New Approach to Inclusive Assessment in Higher Education
Dr Paul Ian Campbell @drpauliancampbell.bsky.social The Race Award Gap There currently exists a difference in degree outcomes between domicile students of colour and their White peers across UK Hig…
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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment
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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Hello academic (and related) BlueSky: do any of you have any readings on alternative citational practices? We have some examples — Glas, Argonauts, medieval marginalia, etc. — but wondered if there was an essay or similar on them which you might recommend? 🙏
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