Chris gives a personal take on some of the themes and issues raised at this year’s Digital Universities UK conference in Exeter, with thoughts on AI, block teaching, student-centred design and serious play.
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Author: Chris Thomson
I'm a Subject Specialist at Jisc focusing on online learning and digital student experience.
Chris shows how clearing a document’s redundant version history in OneDrive can have a impact on cloud data storage and carbon footprint.
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Jisc’s Digifest conference has wrapped for another year. It was as enjoyable, challenging and informative as it’s ever been. The Community Hub area was a new feature this year; a space for the groups that Jisc supports to come together for …
Chris talks to Bath Spa’s Dr Rebecca Feasey about her team’s creative approach to assessment in media and communications.
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Chris shares what’s on Nesta’s emerging technology watch list for 2024
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Last week, Adobe ran the latest of its Creative Campus Collaboration events at Bath Spa University. I’d been invited to run a session so this is a brief summary of some of the main points. Assessing the process, not the product I’ve been th…
Chris reflects on this year’s ALT C conference at the University of Warwick, sharing some of his personal takeaways.
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Chris experiments with ChatGPT’s abilities as a storyteller to see what we can learn about creativity.
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Chris suggest some steps to help improving resilience of teaching and learning in the face of possible disruption to power this Winter.
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Chris summarises why thinking about emerging technologies like the metaverse help us focus on the core principle of solving problems, not trying to fit solutions into our own contexts, taking a phrase by Jon Hofgartner as a helpful mantra.
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