"ai" blog posts
Digifest 2025: Key Takeaways and Next Steps
Attending Digifest 2025 was a great chance to think about how digital innovation is shaping education. With universities facing financial challenges and changing international student numbers, I was reminded that digital experiences aren’t just a nice-to-have, they’re essential.
Posted on: 2 April 2025
Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 35, the one with the Pirate
In Episode 35, in addition to lightbulb moments, treasure island pedagogies/props and luxury items, our discussion covered AI and academic literacies, role play, how to create a safe space for learning and co-constructing learning with our students – with a special pirate intro and outro from Tadgh!
Posted on: 7 October 2024
AI in Learning: A look at upcoming features within our institutional educational technologies
More and more AI is being introduced to enable new ways to do things and opening up new areas of understanding. The same is true for our educational technologies with Instructure (makers of our institutional VLE ‘Canvas’).
Posted on: 19 September 2024
Treasure Island Pedagogies: Episode 33, the one with the reunion
In Episode 33, we return to the original guests whose conversation helped inspire today’s format of the Treasure Island Pedagogies podcast series and revisit our treasure island pedagogies/props and luxury items, which included.
Posted on: 3 June 2024
Reflection on Digital Universities UK - 2023 conference
It was during ‘Metaverse and collaboration: Art of the Possible’ at Digital Universities UK conference last week that I found the chance for some solitary reflection. Guide and curator Layla Bloom (University of Leeds) had concluded an insightful tour of the Leeds special collections, facilitated within a quirky digital gallery space, and in which I was still exploring.
Posted on: 27 April 2023
AI in Education
Tunde Varga-Atkins attended a symposium on 1st May 2019 at Birmingham’s ThinkTank and provided this report.
Posted on: 30 May 2019