Online learning consultant/LD (freelance after 18 years at the OU, now enjoying working with a variety of HEIs). Aspiring artist. Corvid lover. Dogs not cats.
Milton Keynes
Joined March 2009
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🚨 Competition time! Follow us and retweet this tweet for your chance to win £100 worth of tickets for any event(s) available on WeGotTickets.
We'll be picking out one lucky winner at random on Friday 12th July at 12:00pm. Good luck!
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Complete your ALT Awards entry by Tuesday 11 June 2024. You can get a good insight into the ALT awards by taking a look at last year’s winners. Good luck with your entry! buff.ly/4b6FqWJ #altc
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From Brexit to the Rwanda Bill in under 8 years - never been more ashamed to be British.
This country under the #ERG and #ToryFascistDictatorship is a fucking disgrace.
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Flicking thru UK news covering Super Tuesday and only AlJazeera has mentioned the leading Republican candidate is a sex offender & fraudster who stole state secrets, organised an insurrection and encouraged Russia to attack NATO allies. FFS, stop normalising Trump #SaveDemocracy
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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On us a whimsical yet wise joy, tinged with melancholy buff.ly/3p9iy6B
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It’s great if people feel a bit better off as a result of the #AutumnStatement but if they can’t see a doctor for weeks, can’t find a NHS dentist, or it takes 5 weeks to get a response to an email from a government department, is this a government we should keep? I think not.
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We're recruiting for an AHRC Northern Bridge PhD scholarship on digital tinkering, play, and learning to fail northernbridge.ac.uk/applyfo… Happy to talk to anyone who might be interested in applying. Please share. #playresearch
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Our Friday treat! This blog post outlines student voice findings on the use of GenAI in HE 🔎
Students were overwhelmingly worried about GenAI, but they also had some great ideas about how it can be used in educationally valuable ways 🤖
Check it out: open.ac.uk/blogs/learning-de…
ALT GenAI and ChatGPT: The Curriculum Design Student Panel Key findings from the Curriculum Design Student Panel July 2023 Student suggestions Use GenAI to search for ideas, check understanding, explain complex concepts, summarise texts, and act as a virtual tutor Student worries Concerns include academic integrity, reliability, accuracy, loss of creative tasks, assessment innovation and being wrongly accused of plagiarism Use of ChatGPT Half of students surveyed hadn’t used GenAI. We must ensure that we don’t assume prior experience Providing support Many students were worried about using GenAI. We should provide students with the support they need to be successful Student choice Only half of students wanted to use GenAI in their studies. We need to provide student choice in activities and assessment Providing guidance Students wanted clear guidance on when it is okay to use GenAI and what might constitute plagiarism
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Just added a new event: Secrets of Concretopia, celebrating 10 years of my first book with the @modernistsoc in Manchester. I have a similar event in @booksellercrow in Crystal Palace too, plus my Arvon writing masterclass, all listed on my site johngrindrod.co.uk/events
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LATEST TRAVEL: Disruption to trains at Milton Keynes Central ift.tt/9mwpvDr
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Interesting how people report having the “flu” when they are sick now.
I monitor wastewater and the level of influenza is minimal right now. COVID on the other hand is very high. It’s COVID. You probably have COVID.
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If a freelancer tells you turnaround is 10 days, it's not because it'll take them 80 hours. It's because they have other projects. Other priorities. Other ideas to let marinate.
They're in demand for a reason. Rushed work is no way to create great content.
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Are you proud of a fantastic teaching / learning resource? Share with the #LearnHigher community and submit to aldinhe.ac.uk/learnhigher/su… #ALDinHE #StudyChat #LoveLD #GetInvolvedwithLD #HigherEducation
ALT Metal gold star
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So... I'm doing 'learning styles' as my search vs. research assignment next week. Does anyone have a secret article they like that defends learning styles? Of particular interest to me is what people's like/dislike of LS says about their teaching values.
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I've seamlessly and subtly edited the Sunday Telegraph headline to better reflect the story.
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We're hiring! Looking for an additional Academic Development Partner to join our growing @Stir_LearnTeach team. Permanent role, £44,414-£52,841.
Please share with your networks! #AcademicDevelopment linkedin.com/posts/simon-hor…
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Some hedgehog courting happening last night, but isn't it a bit late in the year?????
@HedgehogCabin @hedgehogsociety @BBCSpringwatch #hedgehog #gardenwildlife
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I've just watched yet another hedgehog die of starvation.
Just a baby.
She couldn't find any natural food, because we've mowed and strimmed and tidied it all away.
10p's worth of cat food and a dish of water would have saved her life.
Please put out food and water tonight.
