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Preparing for professional recognition with the NICES steps
Whether for a promotion application, or a form of recognition such as Senior or Principal Fellowship, being able to tell… Read More
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Sound and Situated Assessment: The Choices We Make
I’ve given a few talks recently on assessment in an AI-infused world, and I’ve found myself returning to a question… Read More
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A Restless Rethink? AI and Assessment (thoughts from the HE Professional Talk)
In my talk about assessment redesign in an age of AI last week at the HE Professional Assessment and Integrity… Read More
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Navigating AI in Higher Education: Six Principles (Advance HE Talk)
In my talk for AdvanceHE today, I tried to offer some principles for navigating this moment of AI change while… Read More
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Midlife women and ADHD: Backing the call for awareness and care
It’s been great to read so many end-of-year and start-of-year posts from colleagues all around the world this week, with… Read More
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Restoring pride and joy: Assessment in an age of AI
In recent talks that I have given about artificial intelligence in learning and assessment, one point has piqued quite a… Read More
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Figuring it out: Finding our way with AI in practice
Today I attended a community of practice meeting on artificial intelligence. Communities of practice (CoPs) are a great way of… Read More
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6 Mentoring Lessons (shared between HE and School)
Earlier last month I led a ‘training’ session on mentoring for colleagues at a local School Trust (as this is a personal… Read More
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2.5 Years with GPT: An Autobiographical Review
I’ve been using AI for a few years now. What started as playful experimentation has grown into something much more… Read More
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Leading Strategic Change in Assessment #AHEConference2025
This morning I ran an invited workshop, with Dr Iain McDonald of Cumbria University, at the Assessment in Higher Education… Read More
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Graduate Attributes in a Living Curriculum
Last week, I gave a talk at De Montfort University to launch their new Attributes Community of Practice. My talk, “Working with… Read More
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What Does Good Look Like? Quality in Pedagogic Action Research
I recently led a class on action research quality which motivated me to write up a summary answering the question:… Read More
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The Pedagogy of Letting Go
I’ve had a phrase in my mind for some time that captures a way of teaching that intuitively appeals to… Read More
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AI in Teaching, Learning and Assessment [Long-Read from Zayed University event]
Last week, I visited Zayed University for the university’s Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) conference, where I offered a… Read More
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Assessment Headroom: Space, Choice and Creativity
During my deliberations and discussions about assessment and feedback over the summer, I’ve been thinking about something I’m calling headroom—the gap… Read More