@paulbernal.bsky.social at last, someone actually TALKED to a diverse range gen-z about there experience online AND offline over a year observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

they ask what's the minimum to pass? as if i keep a secret rubric of disappointment i say do your best work they hear write more words

Currently reading Nooij et al. (2025) on “Do not leave your values at the door; the permissibility of activism in the lecture hall” @mirjamglessmer.bsky.social's blogpost on a recent HERD article mirjamglessmer.com/2025/09/03/c...

If you can handle an entire article written in bullet points, presumably to illustrate the importance of writing skills, this is highly recommended. If we think writing is important, we should explain why, teach it, and make sure we assess it.

I know this is the equivalent of being in the remainder bin but still, if you want a bargain guide to becoming a confident assessor in higher education, my book is on Amazon currently for less than £5. #AssessmentInHE www.amazon.co.uk/Confident-As...

I know this is the equivalent of being in the remainder bin but still, if you want a bargain guide to becoming a confident assessor in higher education, my book is on Amazon currently for less than £5. #AssessmentInHE www.amazon.co.uk/Confident-As...

This is a fantastic output from some inspired research in secondary schools- should be read by everyone working with GenAI in HE as well. @mirjamglessmer.com @samillingworth.com #GenAIInHE

🎉 We’re thrilled to share some amazing news with you… MYFest has been awarded the 2025 @oeglobal.bsky.social (OEGlobal) Award for Open Practice!! 🎉 Read more: awards.oeglobal.org/revealing-20... Thank you @oeglobal.bsky.social

If you use Amazon, this is a bargain price on UK Amazon again. Key message: you should enjoy seeing students' assignments! www.amazon.co.uk/Confident-As...

I've been reading The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI by Gallant, T. B., & Rettinger, D. A. (2025). I love the premise of this book which contains many generalisable ideas. Maybe it tries to do too much, but if you only read one book on integrity, this could be it!

"Rather than taking an 'abstinence-only' approach to AI, I decided to put the central, existential question to them directly: was it still necessary or valuable to learn to write? The choice would be theirs." —Piers Gelly for @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/what-happene...

This is well worth a read for the weird journey. Although I can see useful applications (I'm testing 'Assessment Review assistant' right now) I've never wanted to use GenAI to write emails or whatever. It just doesn't sound like me. If I'm writing to you, its from me www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

Who, or what, did the work? The responsibility for assessment security usually resets with individual teachers, who need to balance good assessment design which is equitable and valid with a need to ensure the students did the work themselves. This is pretty challenging in a world with GenAI. In…

Who, or what, did the work? The responsibility for assessment security usually resets with individual teachers, who need to balance good assessment design which is equitable and valid with a need to ensure the students did the work themselves. This is pretty challenging in a world with GenAI. In…

If AI now means that your module is too easy, tough, you need to rethink your module - maybe even acknowledge that now it actually _is_ easier. Unless disciplines are rethought from the ground up you'll have the next generation of learners opting to be mathematicians because anyone can do it.

Roxana Minzatu is setting digital skills in the context of European citizenship as well as employability. We need digital skills to work together for the future: she mentions disinformation, participation in society, STEM education. #diged2025

Joy which you have just shared, what a lovely post!

I have finished my marking! This year I got students to make posters about their research for a complete/incomplete grade (10% of the total), inspired by @corrigans.bsky.social. We had a day of showing off our posters, so today I was just clicking through them in Gradebook and clicking "complete".

Comparing this person's writing with and without LLM use I don't think you'd see a difference, though they swear it's made them better and more efficient. I actually think they're kidding themselves on both fronts. The process was very very involved. My equivalent process is, honestly, taking a nap.

One great thing about working at @lunduniversity.bsky.social is free access to Skissernas, the museum of sketches, and free guided tours of new exhibitions. Currently on is "The Museum Fauna", a look at how animals are represented in art. skissernasmuseum.se

I'm excited to see this article with @peterfelten.bsky.social published in Change: "Learning and Teaching with AI". We draw on three 'big' books on AI and link them to, among other things, discussion of Kapur's ideas of productive & unproductive failure & success www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It does strike me that education is always looking for an 'answer' (AI, cogsci, slant, learning styles, brain gym, etc.) when actually it's more about the daily work of just turning up and building strong relationships with learners.

An AI-free writing course can be done—no need to build a culture of suspicion or rely on surveillance tools like AI-plagiarism checkers. Trust Ss to understand the #AIResistance in the course and to reflect on the “friction” inherent in communicating through authentic writing.

My latest post on how Deep Search (or using AI for research) is both worrying and exciting - but I still think it's going to be OK - because of the nutrition pill analogy! blog.mahabali.me/social-resea...

Absolutely not a comment on this particular tool which I haven't tried, but whatever it is, it cannot be a TA, a tutor, a teacher, a supervisor or any other role which is by definition done by a human. (Also same for nurse, doctor, economist ...). It can be called something else, but not that.

Let's keep calling out the use the language of "AI +" profession which clearly needs to be a human who can use evaluative judgement (nurse, teacher, therapist, customer service officer, etc)? (no shade on @hypervisible.bsky.social who understands, just a reminder for all of us to point it out).

So strange that across a variety of professions, people who recognize the value of human beings writing words say the exact same things about ceding that work to a bot.

If you shop at Amazon UK, and are interested in developing as a higher education assessor/examiner (a niche intersection, I suspect), my book is currently very reasonably priced at £17.19.

counterpoint: human learning is relational, and teachers offer human connection in a way that AI never can

I think 'mini-vivas' can be used to tackle student over-reliance on GenAI, and I also used them to monitor or minimize free-riding web.edu.hku.hk/f/staff/412/...

I’ve been asked to put together a plan to introduce AI to Increase employee efficiency. I am now saying, I am willing to do that after I see a plan for protecting employee time that we are able to save. Unless we protect that time, it will just be filled with more work and we end up where we started

I wish students could experience how interesting writing (and reading!) can be, the sooner the better. The degree to which they've internalized these actions as purely instrumental and for the purposes of proving proficiency to a standard or authority is a problem.

#HowToZoom #a11y

We're delighted to announce that the winner of our Editors' Choice Award for 2025 is Jiahui Luo (Jess) for the article entitled: How does GenAI affect trust in teacher-student relationships? Insights from students’ assessment experiences www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #GenAI #AIinEducation

The humble think-pair-share is a solid, meaningful educational activity in a world where we are trying to over-engineer learning activities. Just ensure there is a well-considered idea or question to discuss. wp.me/peKPOF-o #EduSky

This is really interesting and @mirjamglessmer.bsky.social this could be relevant to the conversation we had today about acceptable uses of online LLMs. As well as the insight into what a minister wants to know about, the difference suggested between search history and LLM use is interesting.

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

This slide from Paul Iske's opening keynote for #Digifest25 elicited a ripple of knowing laughter from the live audience.

Agreed @ccguerilla.bsky.social @cathellis13.bsky.social

look out for this - an essential resource for anyone involved in teaching in HE

I know for a fact that should AGI come about, it will not be able to do the cognitive task that most matters to me: engage with the world, figure out what I think and believe and then express those things to others as part of a community. Who's with me? www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...

I asked my MLIS students to give me 6 words each to describe their feelings about AI and the future of information professions.

I am enjoying the academicisation of the word 'bulllshit' which is appearing more and more often in article titles. @mirjamglessmer.bsky.social

"Writing, drawing and painting are not just labor but processes of considering, reviewing and deciding exactly what I want to put out into the world. By skipping over those processes, I surrender that decision-making process to the AI tool." I love this summary which I think students will relate to.

UTA assessment resources are open access https://buff.ly/4f9zTQL #EduSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

@samillingworth.com @kirstenjack.bsky.social can you share?

Self-assessment is increasingly digital, but has digital self-assessment design kept pace with the digital world? In our new paper with Zi Yan and David Boud, we explore how self-assessment could be more relevant for students' increasingly digital futures ⚡💽 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Well that was quick! Mirjam Glessmer blogs about reflective practice and the eight new principles. Ice watching and thinking about reflections - in the water, and in Harvey et al. (2025)'s article - Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching mirjamglessmer.com/2025/02/17/i... @herdjournal.bsky.social

Can't go, but this looks amazing!