AI Generated Questions now available in Vevox Polls

31st July 2023 James Woolley [jbw] Generative AI, Polling Software, Vevox Leave a comment

In the latest update to Vevox, our polling software, an AI Question Generator has been added. Colleagues can now create questions using the AI Question Generator.

Further information (including how to use it) is available on Vevox’s webpage.

As with all AI generated material, checking for accuracy and editing content is key before releasing it to students. See LTEU’s Generative AI support materials for further information.

There are also a number of blogposts focused on AI that you can take a look at.

There is another change coming to Vevox. The PowerPoint add in has been updated. We will be contacting all colleagues who make use of the PowerPoint add in via email before the start of September.

If Vevox is new to you, we’ve got a whole host of support materials on our Vevox webpage.

Weekly Resource Roundup – 25/7/2023

25th July 202325th July 2023 Mary Jacob [mhj] Generative AI, Weekly Resource Roundup Leave a comment

As leader of our PGCTHE programme, I keep an eye out for resources to help staff teach effectively. These include webinars, podcasts, online toolkits, publications and more. Topics include active learning, online/blended teaching, accessibility/inclusion, and effective learning design based on cognitive science. Below I’ve listed items that came to my attention in the past week. In the interest of clarity, our policy is to show the titles and descriptions in the language of delivery.

Online events and webinars

July

26/7/2023 Digitally Enhanced Education Webinars, AI and Pedagogy: Advancing Personalized Learning, Adaptive Teaching, and Values-Based Assessment
27/7/2023 Learning Design Cross-Institutional Network 2023 (hybrid in person in Milton Keynes and online) also see their Conference Padlet
28/7/2023 EmpowerED webinar series, Webinar 7 (topics include Conversations to change teaching, Strategies to foster creativity, Strength-based approaches to teaching and learning, and Power of playful pedagogic podcasting with Pedagodzilla)

August

1/8/2023 Jisc, Artificial intelligence and ethics Mini-MOOC
2/8/2023 Transforming Assessment, Authentic assessment to develop integrated thinking
2/8/2023 UDL UK and Ireland Network, UDL Instructional Design Workshop
4/8/2023 UNESCO Campus IESALC, ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence in higher education (online course)

September

6-7/7/2023 RAISE conference (hybrid in person and online, with student discount)

Resources and publications

Resources on Artificial Intelligence

Alexander, B. & Bali, M. (19/7/2023), AI, academia, and equity (1-hour video), Future Trends Forum
Anthology (17/7/2023), Anthology Accelerates Innovation in Higher Education with Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service (note: the Blackboard VLE is being rebranded as Anthology)
Arnold, L. (16/7/2023), Slide Deck: Authentic Assessment and AI … Let’s Get Critical, Lydia Arnold: Learning, teaching, assessment, technology, higher education & action research
Attewell, S. (3/7/2023), Exploring the Significance of Generative AI for Students, National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education
De Vynck, G. (13/7/2023), OpenAI strikes deal with AP to pay for using its news in training AI, Washington Post
Frenkel, S. & Thompson, S. (15/7/2023), ‘Not for Machines to Harvest’: Data Revolts Break Out Against A.I., New York Times
Gertner, (18/7/2023), Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth: Can the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process?, New York Times
National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education (ongoing), MOOC Artificial intelligence and ethics
Roose, K. (11/7/2-23), Inside the White-Hot Center of A.I. Doomerism, Anthropic, a safety-focused A.I. start-up, is trying to compete with ChatGPT while preventing an A.I. apocalypse. It’s been a little stressful., New York Times
Schaul, K., Chen, S. Y. & Tiku, N. (19/4/2023), Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart, Washington Post
Tasneem, A. & Panthagani, A. (3/7/2023), Six ways universities could embrace AI – and six ways to get it wrong, WonkHE
Turner, J. (19/7/2023), Charting Uncharted Waters: How ELESIG’s Roundtable Sheds Light on AI’s Role in Neurodiverse Students’ Education, ALTC Blog
Zakrzewski, C. (13/7/2023), FTC investigates OpenAI over data leak and ChatGPT’s inaccuracy, Washington Post

Other resources

Elkington, S. (10/7/2023), How are we using different modes of communication to engage students with their learning?, QAA Blog
Felten, P., Forsyth, R., & Sutherland, K. A. (9/7/2023), Building Trust in the Classroom: A Conceptual Model for Teachers, Scholars, and Academic Developers in Higher Education, Teaching and Learning Inquiry 11 (July)
Fraile, J., Gil-Izquierdo, M. & Medina-Moral, E. (20/7/2023), The impact of rubrics and scripts on self-regulation, self-efficacy and performance in collaborative problem-solving tasks, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
Hyb ACE Cymru / ACE Hub Wales (n.d.), Croeso i wefan Hyb Profiadau Niweidiol yn ystod Plentyndod (ACE) Cymru / Welcome to our Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Hub Wales website (toolkit)
Inner Development Goals (2020), IDG Framework: Transformational Skills for Sustainable Development
Mason, M. (28/11/2022), The key knowledge and approaches needed for trauma-informed teaching, Times Higher Education Campus
QAA (10/7/2023), Speaking my language – understanding and supporting the experiences of disabled students (41-minute audio recording), QAA Membership Benefits
Roberts, D. (28/3/2023), What the heck is decolonization?, David Roberts Online
Simper, M. (14/7/2023), Beyond the “real world”: exploring authentic assessment design, OU Learning Design team blog
Teakel, S., Linden, K., van der Ploeg, N. & Roman, R. (2023), Embedding equity: online tutor support to provide effective feedforward on assessments, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
Thornburg, D. D. (10/2004), Campfires in Cyberspace: Primordial Metaphors for Learning in the 21st Century, International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning

Other

Monthly series European Network for Academic Integrity, ENAI monthly webinars free open webinars on various topics related to academic integrity.
Subscribe to SEDA’s mailing list for email discussions about educational development and emerging teaching practices. This is one of the sources I use when identifying useful material for the Roundup.
Follow University of Birmingham’s Higher Education Futures institute HEFi on Twitter for daily posts with links to pedagogical literature and more. This is one of the sources I use when identifying useful material for the Roundup.
Join the #LTHEchat on Twitter Wednesday nights for one hour of lively discussion about learning and teaching in HE. I often find out about good resources for the Roundup from the chat.

Please see the Staff Training booking page for training offered by the LTEU and other Aberystwyth University staff. I hope you find this weekly resource roundup useful. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact our team at lteu@aber.ac.uk. You may also wish to follow my Twitter feed, Mary Jacob L&T.

Weekly Resource Roundup – 13/7/2023

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Online events and webinars

July

14 and 17/7/2023 Ravensbourne University London, Inclusive Learning Design book launch with Virna Rossi
18/7/2023 ASCILITE and Turnitin, Designing assessment to deter student misconduct and contract cheating
20/7/2023 Active Learning Network, International Active Learning Conference (call for proposals open until 9/6/2023)

August

1/8/2023 Jisc, Artificial intelligence and ethics Mini-MOOC
2/8/2023 UDL UK and Ireland Network, UDL Instructional Design Workshop
4/8/2023 UNESCO Campus IESALC, ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence in higher education (online course)

September

6-7/7/2023 RAISE conference (hybrid in person and online, with student discount)

Resources and publications

Resources on Artificial Intelligence

Anthony, P. (4/7/2023), Harnessing the Power of Learning-by-Teaching with ChatGPT, University of Kent, Learning Technologies
Attewell, S. (6/7/2023), How generative AI is impacting the way we work, National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education blog
Booker, J. (29/6/2023), Jordan Booker, Uni of York, Top 5 tips, Getting Savvy (20-minute video, Future Teacher Webinars (Note: This student discusses how she uses ChatGPT in her study)
De Vynck, G. (28/6/2023), ChatGPT maker OpenAI faces a lawsuit over how it used people’s data, Washington Post
Dickinson, J. (11/7/2023), It looks like you’re writing a disciplinary letter. Would you like help?, WonkHE
Duke-Williams, E. (5/7/2023), AI RESOURCES – A PADLET, AI in Higher Education, University of Dundee
Heikkilä, M. (30/5/2023), How to talk about AI (even if you don’t know much about AI) Plus: Catching bad content in the age of AI, MIT Technology Review
Jolly, J. (12/7/2023), Financial firms must boost protections against AI scams, UK regulator to warn, The Guardian
Lu, Y. (11/7/2023), What to Know About ChatGPT’s New Code Interpreter Feature, Graphs, maps and data analyses? Now ChatGPT can do even more, New York Times
Russell Group (4/7/2023), New principles on use of AI in education
Sample, I. (10/7/2023), Programs to detect AI discriminate against non-native English speakers, shows study, The Guardian (also see: Liang, W,. Yuksekgonul, M., Mao, Y., Wu, E. & Zou, J. (18/4/2023), GPT detectors are biased against non-native English, arXiv, Cornell University)
Simpson, M., Thanaraj, A., & Durston, P. (2/7/2023), Learning how to be more human will prepare universities for an AI-mediated future, WonkHE
Webb, M. (7/2023), Generative AI in further education and skills – the myths, the threats and the opportunities, Association of Colleges
Webb, M. (11/5/2023), A Generative AI Primer, National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education
Wen, L. S. (11/7/2023), The AI revolution in health care is already here, Washington Post (Note: this article highlights the difference between generative AI and predictive AI)
Williamson, B. (30/6/2023), Degenerative AI in education, Code Acts in Education
Wolfram, S. (14/2/2023), What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?, Stephen Wolfram Writings

Other resources

Collins, M. & Childs, M. (6/7/2023), Playful Learning 2023 Day 2 Recap (50-minute audio recording), Pedagodzilla, the pedagogical podcast with the pop culture core
Cook-Sather, A., Salmeron, D. & Smith, T. (2023), Humanizing STEM education through student-faculty pedagogical partnerships, Frontiers in Education. 8. 10.3389/feduc.2023.1153087
Cross Academy (n.d.), Making Group Work Work: Strategies for Forming Effective Groups, K. Patricia Cross Academy
Kukulska-Hulme, A., Bossu, C., Charitonos, K., Coughlan, T., Deacon, A., Deane, N., Ferguson, R., Herodotou, C., Huang, C-W., Mayisela, T., Rets, I., Sargent, J., Scanlon, E., Small, J., Walji, S., Weller, M., & Whitelock, D. (2023), Innovating Pedagogy 2023: Open University Innovation Report 11 (Milton Keynes: The Open University)
Merry, K. (multiple dates), Talking Learning and Teaching podcast series (see episodes that emphasis neurodiversity)
Parcell, L. (7/7/2023), Beyond the technology podcast: Hybrid teaching – learning from staff and student experiences (40-minute audio recording), Jisc Podcasts “Lis Parcell is joined by Matt Turner and Gabi Witthaus from the Higher Education Futures institute (HEFi), University of Birmingham to talk about a hybrid teaching project involving two universities.”
Rienties, B. (6/2023), Lessons learned from large scale implementations of learning design and learning analytics, Media & Learning
Rossi, V. & Vasant, S. (6/7/2023), Episode 32 Virna Ross, Inclusive Learning Design (13-minute audio recording), Talking HE Podcast series
Winstone, N. E. & Nash, R. A. (5/7/2023), Toward a cohesive psychological science of effective feedback, Educational Psychologist, 58:3, 111-129
Zakrzewski, C. (13/7/2023), The FTC is investigating whether ChatGPT harms consumers, The Washington Post

Other

Monthly series European Network for Academic Integrity, ENAI monthly webinars free open webinars on various topics related to academic integrity.
Subscribe to SEDA’s mailing list for email discussions about educational development and emerging teaching practices. This is one of the sources I use when identifying useful material for the Roundup.
Follow University of Birmingham’s Higher Education Futures institute HEFi on Twitter for daily posts with links to pedagogical literature and more. This is one of the sources I use when identifying useful material for the Roundup.
Join the #LTHEchat on Twitter Wednesday nights for one hour of lively discussion about learning and teaching in HE. I often find out about good resources for the Roundup from the chat.

Departmental Training Sessions: Introduction to Blackboard Ultra

13th July 2023 James Woolley [jbw] Blackboard, Ultra Leave a comment

The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit has now completed their cycle of departmental training sessions for E-learning Essentials: Introduction to Blackboard Ultra.

This training session was designed to ensure that staff had the opportunity to familiarise themselves with Blackboard Ultra and achieve the Blackboard Required Minimum Presence.

Since May, we have trained over 300 members of staff in both in person and online sessions.

For those of you at the first day of the conference you will have seen the exciting features that are coming to Blackboard Ultra over the next few years.

If you haven’t managed to attend one of your departmental sessions or would like a refresher, then we are running the sessions in English and Welsh online.

You can book onto our training sessions and view other sessions on the booking page.

If you have any questins about Ultra then email elearning@aber.ac.uk

Annual Learning and Teaching Conference Materials Available

13th July 202313th July 2023 James Woolley [jbw] Annual Learning and Teaching Conference 2023, Conference Leave a comment

Photograph of think tank during conference opening.

Between the 4 and 6 July, the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit hosted the 11^th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference.

The materials from the conference are now available on our webpages.

We would like to thank all of our contributors and attendees. The sessions were of such high quality.

Across two in person days and one online day, delegates heard about the developments for Blackboard Learn Ultra, Chat GPT and AI, and creative approaches to assessment design.

We’re already heading into planning our 12^th Annual Learning and Teaching Conference which is scheduled to take place in September 2024 (date TBC).

We hope to see you at a forthcoming event.