Higher Education
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What can we learn about assessment and AI from doomscrolling socials?
While doomscrolling earlier this week – bad habits, but hey! – I caught the Aldi supermarket thread (great doom scrolling!),… 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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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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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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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
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Getting started with SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning)
In a recent visit to the University of Kent, a talk was given on the Scholarship of Learning and Teaching… Read More
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In conversation on authentic assessment
Last year I was part of a recorded conversation with my colleagues James Croxford and Jane Headley. We recorded what… Read More
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On engagement [inspired by the coming of spring]
Understanding and enhancing student engagement in higher education is a critical challenge that educators and institutions face, especially in the… Read More
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Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Leadership (SoTLL) for PSF and Beyond [a long read]
It is clear from the new PSF guidance that development of strategic leadership is important for Principal Fellowship. This post… Read More
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Slidedeck: Exploring our Response to AI in Higher Education
Yesterday I had the pleasure of presenting ”Exploring our response to AI in higher education” to the Connecting Legal Education… Read More
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A blueprinting curriculum methodology
This blog article is written to accompany my presentation today at Jisc’s Digifest event. Curriculum change at scale is always… Read More
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Barriers to programme level curriculum design
Over the last 12 months I have been leading a curriculum project and one of the principles that we are… Read More