In marketized higher education systems, there is a disillusionment with mass higher education. In this seminar, I will argue that, in order to address this disillusionment, we need to refocus on the educational potential of mass higher education. Based on a seven-year longitudinal study that tracked participants from their first year of university to up...
How should universities respond to a world where AI-generated writing is increasingly indistinguishable from human work? This one-day event, hosted by the Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence (LITE), brings together international and institutional perspectives to explore how higher education can move beyond detection-driven approaches to academic integrity and towards more ethical, transparent, and pedagogically meaningful...
Naomi Winstone, University of Surrey, joins the LITE Feedback Incubator to give a talk about the 'feedback illusion' followed by an informal roundtable discussion workshop. Click here to book your place. 11:00-12:30. Talk. The Feedback Illusion: Why more feedback, returned more quickly, isn’t the answer This talk will be delivered in a hybrid format (online...
The Student Education Conference is back for 2025! It'll be taking place 9-10 January – get the date in your calendars. We've got a jam-packed programme for you this year at SEC, with a brand new welcome reception including dinner on Wednesday 8 January. As usual, the first day of the conference kicks off with a student...
Our next spotLITE workshop, open to anyone across the University with an interest in student partnership work, considers how we currently engage students in our educational and research work, and how we can do it better.
A workshop exploring how disciplinary methods, standards and norms can be democratically owned and accessible to all social demographics; regardless of class, gender, racial/ethnic background or age. The organiser and speakers work in analytic philosophy and will be discussing philosophy’s methods, but participants from all disciplinary backgrounds are welcome and valued. We intend to explore how...
Our next spotLITE workshop, open to all professional services and teaching staff, is led by Gabriel Jones, who will be taking us through the findings of his LITE fellowship. In this in-person session, you’ll learn about staff experience and attitudes towards using fully-immersive virtual reality (VR) at the University, and hear his suggestions for improved...
Looking to try something different in the classroom during the next academic year? Open to discovering innovative, critically minded and cross-disciplinary approaches to Teaching & Learning? Interested in being part of a collaborative network of SoTL-invested colleagues? If you have answered ‘yes’ to these questions, we invite you to join us as we put pedagogic...
Looking to try something different in the classroom during the next academic year? Open to discovering innovative, critically minded and cross-disciplinary approaches to Teaching & Learning? Interested in being part of a collaborative network of SoTL-invested colleagues? If you have answered ‘yes’ to these questions, we invite you to join us as we put...