Educational Innovation at the University of Law
By LTS at University of Law
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Educational Innovation at the University of LawApr 05, 2023
Reflections from Bett 2023
This episode is a reflection from Andy Ramsden on attending Day 1 of the Bett 2023 Show (British Educational Training Technology)
Being Human with Chatbots and AI - catching up with Professor Bas Groes and Artificial Friends at the Being Human Festival, Wolverhampton
We interviewed Professor Bas Groes to talk about human interaction with artificial bots and how we are influenced by memory.
Bas is a writer, teacher and scholar of contemporary culture. His stroke memoir, Right in the Head, is a genre-bending book exploring the relationship between human beings and their brains. When not playing guitar and singing in a band, Bas works as Professor of English Literature at the University of Wolverhampton, where he leads a Computational Literary Studies project on inclusivity and diversity, the Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded Novel Perceptions: towards an inclusive canon. For this project, over 10,000 contemporary novels have been rated by the public in the Big Book Review.
His research for BBC’s engagement project, Novel That Shaped Our World is included in the BBC podcast series Turn Up for the Books. His research often features on the BBC: he has written, for instance, about the need to rethink literary genre, fake news during the Corona crisis, and gendered responses to the pandemic.
At Wolverhampton, he is Director of the Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research and works with 6 PhD students. His interest in how fake news led to the influencing of the pandemic resulted in The Rhetoric of Untruth (TRUTH).
He leads The Memory Network, edited the ground-breaking book Memory in the Twenty-First Century and has written on information overload.
His next academic book is The Prosthetic God: Transactive Cognition in the Age of Connectivity, co-written with Dr Nick Lavery, and he is preparing a collection of essays on the way in which Japanese attitudes to the imagination can help us navigate the changing relationship between the ‘real’ and the ‘unreal’ in the digital age.
Decolonising Learning Technology and Legal Education
Discussing the what / why of decolonisation, how it’s applicable to legal ed, what challenges are students expected to know about with decolonising law, what learning technologies are influencing ed generally and what is the way forward for legal education. Joining our discussion today are:
- John Traxler, Professor of Digital learning and UNESCO Chair: Innovative Informal Digital Learning in Disadvantaged and Development Contexts. He is a Founding Director of the International Association for Mobile Learning. He is co-editor of the definitive, Mobile Learning: A Handbook for Educators and Trainers. His journal papers have been cited over 9000 times and is in the top 2% in his discipline. He has been responsible for large-scale mobile learning implementations, small-scale mobile learning research interventions, capacity building, major evaluations, landscape reviews, and curriculum development. He is currently leading a UNESCO project about decolonising learning technologies.
- Sarah Corbett, Associate Dean (Bloomsbury Campus) and Associate Professor at The University of Law. She is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a criminal defence barrister. She has 15 years' experience in higher and professional education as a lecturer, designer and manager; specialisms in criminal law, evidence, advocacy, sociology and criminology. She is currently completing her PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London researching racialisation and criminal law/evidence through the lens of Critical Race Theory, performativity and simulacra. She presented to the University Teaching and Learning Conference about decolonising criminal law and evidence.
Polling Technology in the Classroom
Samantha Borek, a tutor teaching on the LPC, GDL, PgDL and LLB at Guildford / Reading campuses discusses her experiences of the use of Polling Technology in the classroom, with Nicola Avery of the Learning Technology service.
ULaw MA Education Courses Podcast Episode 1
A discussion with Carol Hadwen - ULaw Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE) Programme and Student Lead (PSL) about her professional background, the ULaw MA Education courses and current issues in Higher Education.
Embedding LinkedIn Learning in the Curriculum: Thoughts and reflections
A discussion with Matthew Carl - Senior Manager – Digital Academy (University of Law) & Daniel Wakefield - Digital Education Engagement Officer (University of Lincoln) around experiences, thoughts and reflections on embedding LinkedIn Learning into the curriculum.
December 2021: Student Experience of VR with Dr Jiri Motejlek
Discussion and reflections around how Jiri has been working with students to co-create a Virtual Reality Chemical Plant at the University of Surrey. Including some very good tips and approaches on how to run a student led authoring project.
Dr Jiri Motejlek received the master's degree in applied informatics from the University of Finance and Administration, Prague, Czech Republic, in 2010, and the postgraduate degree in information and communication technologies in higher education from Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, in 2011. He has completed his Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering with the Department of Chemical and Processing Engineering, the University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K., His research interests include virtual reality and its use in higher education.
For context see, Virtual Chemical Engineering Pilot Plant
February 2022: Education opportunities of AI & Chatbots with Tom Moule
The conversation discusses the emerging use of AI & Chatbots in education, what might act as barriers to institutional adoption, what are we doing at the University of Law, and the longer-term potential. Tom Moule, the Product Lead at the JISC National Centre for AI in Tertiary Education, provides an insight into these questions.
The National centre for AI in tertiary education aims to ensure education benefits from AI through ethical implementation that fits with the culture of education.