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:

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...

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

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.

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!

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...

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...

Happy Global Accessibility Day accessibility.day

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

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!

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

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/...

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...

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.

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!

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...

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.

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.

Should we be welcoming AI to our campuses with open arms? Or should we be welcoming *conversations about* AI to our campuses?

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.

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 😍

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.

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!)

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...

Quick morning read! on #genAI, authorship, and the awkward spaces we need to navigate where the two meet. #EduSky #LTHE

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

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...

We love these too! I get to plant some chamomile 😁

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!

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!

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!

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) 🎉

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

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 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.

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!

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.

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!

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!

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.

Lovely description of an ideal inclusive future in education! We're definitely hoping for/working towards this.

How to instil these inclusive design practices in our students? Learn with and from them!

Some great thoughts about how to make professional development on inclusive design more engaging and accessible for educators.

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

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.

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!

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!

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

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