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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 7d

This looks great for embedding wellbeing in our higher education teaching! Even if you can't participate live, the blog post has loads of useful ideas and resources. #AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky

Zoë Allman @zoe-a-z.bsky.social · 7d

Join me, and the amazing @lthechat.bsky.social team, on Wednesday 8th October 2025 at 20:00 BST to explore 'Embedding Mental Wellbeing' #LTHEchat

More details at: lthechat.com/2025/10/03/l...

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ImpactWales @impactwales.bsky.social · 12d

Did you know retrieval practice, or trying to recall previously taught material, is the single most robust learning strategy supported by research?

Just thinking about the previous content can aid long term retention

Take a look at our Covert Retrieval guide ⬇️
Contact us [email protected]

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 15d

A3 #LTHEchat don't transcribe everything the speaker says, but process the info and link to prior knowledge. Include exact phrases/terms as appropriate. Online versus handwritten notes making for me are quite different. Online I take screen shots of Powerpoint slides alternating with my comments.

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 15d

A4 #LTHEchat for me, the biggest aesthetic is colour as in colour coding. That enables me to spot the structure of ideas and connections between them quite easily. Other than that, I don't care about aesthetics for note making.

Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 16d

New #WeeklyResourceRoundup to help HE educators teach effectively and inclusively wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky #LTHEchat @jisc.bsky.social @transformassess.bsky.social @qaa.ac.uk @edufuturist.bsky.social @activelearningnet.bsky.social @aldinhe.bsky.social

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 16d

thanks, I thought you would like to know that I'm including a link to your site in the upcoming #WeeklyResourceRoundup, which will be posted later today. wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/c... #AcademicSky #EduSky #AberPGCTHE

Weekly Resource Roundup – Digital Education Group

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 16d

Tonight! #LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social with Nathalie Tasler @drntasler.bsky.social on effective note-making looks great! Useful resources in the blog post too. lthechat.com/2025/09/19/l...

LTHEchat 336 Effective Note Making Systems from Paper to AI

Join us on Bluesky on Wednesday 24th September 2025 at 20:00 BST At the University of Glasgow we are in our first teaching week, the topic of note making, and its related systems see…

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 23d

Loads of online events in the #WeeklyResourceRoundup to help university staff develop our teaching practice: wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky

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Neal Caren @haphazardsoc.bsky.social · 29d

I've been testing the accuracy of LLMs in transcribing printed and handwritten historical texts stored as images. I put together a corpus of 400 pages from the Library of Congress.

Current leader is GPT4.1-mini, which at 11 cents per 1K pages, is also the cheapest option. github.com/nealcaren/In...

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · 29d

Diolch yn fawr! :-) Please give my regards back to your Welsh family, great to have that connection.

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · Sep 10

Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... feat. @jisc.bsky.social @qaa.ac.uk @transformassess.bsky.social @lauanshul.bsky.social #EmpowerED @edufuturist.bsky.social @learningscientists.bsky.social & more.

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · Sep 5

Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · Sep 5

yes, any particular teaching context would require a customised balance of types of learning in any case. It's not the same for all modules.

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · Sep 4

Thanks for sharing this thoughtful article. Personally, I like ABC learning design, but I see your points about the limitations of the generic nature of Gen AI output in this context. I especially agree with you on the importance of having a subject matter expert do the curriculum planning.

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · Sep 4

#AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky

Sally Kift @kiftsally.bsky.social · Sep 3

📢In my #NeededNowLT blog w @jasonmlodge.bsky.social
#QUT Kevin Ashford-Rowe
👇The centrality of academic judgement in assessment practice
✅Centrality of academic judgement
✅Don't panic
✅Build capability in assessment literacy
✅Generate a mature GenAI discourse
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open.substack.com/pub/neededno...

The centrality of academic judgement in assessment practice

Kevin Ashford-Rowe, Queensland University of Technology

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Michael Webb @mwebb.bsky.social · Sep 2

My colleague Sue Attewell leads our stream of work looking at staff and student perceptions of AI.

In a new blog post the focus is with a group of pre-sessional international students.

nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/09/0...

Student Perceptions 2025: Insights from a Group of Pre-sessional International Students at the University of Manchester - Artificial intelligence

How do international students preparing to study in the UK view AI? Sue Attewell spoke with a group of pre-sessional students at Manchester, mostly from China, about their hopes, worries and everyday ...

nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org

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Bas Trimbos @bastrimbos.bsky.social · Aug 31

Interesting read by @carlessdavid.bsky.social (2025) Feedback Literacy Concepts and Practices: Toward Academic Feedback Literacy, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 57:5, 5-11, DOI: 10.1080/00091383.2025.2539038

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · Sep 1

Useful article about transmission style lectures and the assumptions that both students and teachers have. The illusion of attendance: a critical study of large-class lectures" by @colinloughlin.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky

The illusion of attendance: a critical study of large-class lectures

Large-class university lectures remain commonplace, yet their educational value is contested. While the majority of criticism contrasts transmissive lectures with active learning pedagogies, this c...

www.tandfonline.com

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · Aug 29

more here: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

How we tested AI search tools

Details on the methodology of our questions designed to challenge known AI blind spots

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · Aug 29

Geoffrey Fowler ran an in-depth study on this, with librarians to evaluate the AI-generated responses. See his report here (be sure to read his take-aways at the end): www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social

Review | We tested which AI gave the best answers without making stuff up. One beat ChatGPT.

Librarians helped us quiz AI bots with tough trivia, recent events questions and more. Some answers were impressive — others were worse than an old-fashioned Google search.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · Aug 29

Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup with loads of resources to help you teach university (and other levels) effectively and inclusively. wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · Aug 29

Favourite article for #AberPGCTHE. In my seminar, they read Chew's article in advance. I start with quick retrieval practice of the 7 points. Then they type examples from their own experience into a shared doc and we discuss. My students are mostly new HE lecturers.

Blake Harvard @blakeharvard.bsky.social · Aug 29

Choke Points and Pitfalls in Studying

A review of an incredibly accessible and useful journal article for students and teachers alike.

theeffortfuleducator.com/2022/01/27/c...

Choke Points and Pitfalls in Studying - The Effortful Educator

A review of an incredibly accessible and useful journal article for students and teachers alike.

theeffortfuleducator.com

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · Aug 27

oh well, if you do publish something building on this, please tag me so that I can share it and amplify the message :-).

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Dr Mary Jacob L&T @maryjacob.bsky.social · Aug 27

this sounds great! Will the recording be available afterwards? If so, I'd like to share it in the next #WeeklyResourceRoundup

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Dr Carolina Kuepper-Tetzel @drckt.bsky.social · Aug 27

Join our symposium on "Cognitive and Motivational Individual Differences in the Effectiveness of Desirable Difficulties" today at 12:15 in HS01.15. #earli2025
Looking forward to discuss the interesting work presented as part of this symposium.

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