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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 10h

sway.cloud.microsoft/BysO9ChOrHMQ... - this from @drckt.bsky.social might help #AcademicSky folks. Some great resources. As Caroline says, it's easy to be overwhelmed and links to tonight's #LTHEChat

Time Management & Study Skills For Students

One of the biggest challenges with learning is to get organised and to stick with a healthy study routine. It is easy to feel overwhelmed. In Level 2 Psychology we introduced Time Management & Study S

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 10h

A6 Continue to offer clarity to students, reduce complexity and space to rehearse assessment in a safe space. Curriculum is central. Get it right helps wellbeing. It's about the Cognitive Load Theory (1987). Wellbeing isn't just an individual responsibility but a system and society one. #LTHEChat

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 10h

A5 This image comes to mind.... but a complete chart of assessment and links to briefs and part exemplars would be what I show on a slide, plus encouraging students to have a study buddy to reduce stress. #LTHEChat

a sandy beach with a mountain in the background

ALT: a sandy beach with a mountain in the background

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 10h

Oh yes I do remember reading about this! Less is more. We have significantly over assessed since then, killing learning, joy, creativity and even knowledge itself. #LTHEChat

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 10h

A4 Remember Professor John Sweller's Cognitive Load Thoery, often cited as the most important theory in education by Professor Dylan Wiliam. set.et-foundation.co.uk/resources/th... #LTHEChat

The importance of cognitive load theory | Society for Education and Training

Lecturer and SET Fellow Dan Williams explains why there is one learning theory he feels all teachers should be aware of.

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 11h

A2 Write Assessment and Policy with colleagues at UEL(2019) that no module will have more than 2 assessments. If we care, make systems and processes kinder. Take the load off people. Learning and growth happens in the pauses and reflections. #LTHEChat

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 11h

A1 Exactly, the old saying 'look after your staff, they will look after your customers and business will take care of itself'. Education has lost the humanity, I can point to countless leaders without any. Sad. #LTHEChat

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 11h

That's good. We talk about lot in academia of load, assessment load, workload. Of course Professor John Sweller (1987) talked of Cognitive Load (theory). #LTHEChat

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 11h

A2 Most students want clear expectations, deadlines and to know what good looks like. This will help them with their wellbeing. Offer this to staff too. You are on your way to a happier institution. #LTHEChat

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 11h

Yes indeed, a few years back I invited @paulrk.bsky.social to UAL one evening to discuss exactly this - stumblingwithconfidence.com/2022/12/13/s... #LTHEChat

Stumbling with Confidence: close encounters of the creative kind

(This is a full transcript of the talk given by Prof. Paul Kleiman at the University of the Arts London’s ‘Reward and Recognition Celebration’ event in the Banqueting Hall at Chelsea College of Art…

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 11h

A1 Staff and Student stress at the type and amount of assessment being shoehorned into the module. Arghhh! 🙄🤷‍♀️ #LTHEChat

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 13h

I agree Sandra, these limited character posts, have to decide which phrase you leave out, I was aspiring to the journalists of the past and the few that to probe those in power. #LTHEChat

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 13h

📢 NEW #Podcast Episode. Invited by Beatriz Acevedo and Professor Andrew Middleton, on the Exquisite Education Podcast at @anglialt.bsky.social , for my first time as a guest on anyone's podcast. Bring a provocation, they said, so I did. 😂 open.spotify.com/episode/7DNa... #HigherEducation #Careers

S11E4-Education for a vanishing world? with Santanu Vasant

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LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social · 14h

Join us for #LTHEchat with @zoe-a-z.bsky.social at 8pm GMT/ BST today.
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LTHEChat 338 Embedding Mental Wellbeing

Join us on Bluesky with guest Professor Zoë Allman @zoe-a-z.bsky.social on Wednesday 8th October 2025 at 20:00 BST Mental health and wellbeing are important topics that are increasingly discussed i…

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 2d

You know it's #Halloween when you see creatures like this in your local florist #Allium #Wimbledon #London #Autumn

Florist Window Dressing - Three Scary Birds

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@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · 3d

Join us on Wednesday 8th October at 8pm BST for #LTHEchat here in Bluesky with Professor Zoë Allman @zoe-a-z.bsky.social to discuss 'Embedding Mental Wellbeing'.

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LTHEChat 338 Embedding Mental Wellbeing

Join us on Bluesky with guest Professor Zoë Allman @zoe-a-z.bsky.social on Wednesday 8th October 2025 at 20:00 BST Mental health and wellbeing are important topics that are increasingly discussed i…

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 5d

📢NEW (60th 🎉) Episode of #TalkingHE Podcast w/ Linda Pallien, discussing careers education, entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and lots more. Listen via: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/... or wherever you get your podcasts🎙. Please share with your networks! 🙏 #Careers #Education #HigherEducation

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 6d

ICYMI on Tuesday, here's my *new* and *free* short-form summary of what's gone wrong in our universities. This is something of a last word really, because unless the Budget and White Paper do something really radical, the fate of much HE is already sealed.
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks @nurun.bsky.social 🙏, the questions prompted a creative activity idea of using #GenAI. Plus crystallised the need to question the biases of these systems. Through that, education can be better. #LTHEChat

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 7d

😂, please do, likewise... I have the most creative ideas in these #LTHEChat, at work, tumbleweed (sometimes).

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 7d

Agreed 💯 percent. Creating that psychological safety in a class, that's now the role of the modern educator. In my humble opinion. #LTHEChat

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 7d

A6 The seminars as a series of prosecution / defence of what the #GenAI #LLM has said, contributions count as 30% of the final assessment. Whether you are a Law lecturer or not. Why? Builds presentation skills. I rest my case 😅🤪#LTHEChat

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 7d

A5 The art of asking good questions, to probe the #GenAI #LLM but this skill works in the real world. We could all be journalists 😅 #LTHEChat

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 7d

I agree Martin, well put, it presents an opportunity to explore these. Neal Sumner often says this, in emails even a few weeks (now retired now, but still very much engaged in education). #LTHEChat

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Santanu Vasant PFHEA @santanuvasant.bsky.social · 7d

A4 I have started to use it to have conversations. I notice that you have to question its biases, to get a rounded answer. This is the danger of using little questioned knowledge. #LTHEChat

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