Higher Education
5 pieces tagged Higher Education.
Building animated explainers for lecture videos with Claude
How I've been using Claude to build 2D and 3D animated explainers for LSE100's lecture videos, where the technique could help across academic work, and how to do it yourself.
New chapter: Making group work ‘work’
Jillian Terry and I have a chapter in a new open access UCL Press book on supporting sessional teachers, drawing on our experience of LSE100's group research projects.
Four Myths about Generative AI in Education
I outline four common misconceptions about the use of Generative AI which are widespread in Higher Education debates about the use of these tools: that it is possible and practical to detect the use of AI in writing, that text produced by GenAI is bland, repetitive or predictable, that GenAI tools struggle to cite sources accurately, and that more creative or reflective assessments are harder to complete using AI.
The AI Skills of Social Scientists
What skills do social scientists need to adapt to generative AI, and how should educators approach teaching them? A narrow focus on training everyone in technical skills is misguided - what's needed is authorial voice, leadership and management skills, and the critical force of the social sciences.
League Table Ranking and Name Recognition
Does the ranking of a UK university in league tables affect its reputation and name recognition? Using a novel data source from an online quiz, this research explores the complex relationship between league table rank and identifiability of universities.