Dr Mary Jacob L&T
@maryjacob.bsky.social
Passionate about pedagogy
Aberystwyth University L&T Enhancement Unit
PGCTHE Coordinator, Lecturer in L&T
https://wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/category/weekly-resource-roundup/
Aberystwyth University L&T Enhancement Unit
PGCTHE Coordinator, Lecturer in L&T
https://wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/category/weekly-resource-roundup/
Don’t forget to join us tomorrow, Wednesday 8-9pm BST, for #LTHEchat, which will explore Teaching, Learning, Assessment and GenAI: Moving from Reaction to Intentional Practice with @hazelfarrell.bsky.social and @kenmccarthy.ie
Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2026/01/16/l...
Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2026/01/16/l...
LTHEchat 350: Teaching, Learning, Assessment and GenAI: Moving from Reaction to Intentional Practice
Generative AI has become part of higher education with remarkable speed. In a short period of time, it has entered classrooms, assessment design, academic writing, feedback processes, and professio…
lthechat.com
January 21, 2026 at 9:39 AM
Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat with guests @puiyin.bsky.social, @katharinehubbard.bsky.social, Dr Kevin Campbell-Karn, Professor David Webster and Paula Han on Wednesday 7th January at 8pm GMT to discuss Navigating the New OfS Quality Era: What It Means for Students, Staff and the Sector.
LTHEchat 348: Navigating the New OfS Quality Era and What It Means for Students, Staff, and the Sector
The Office for Students’ (OfS) latest proposal represents a significant shift in how teaching quality and student outcomes will be assessed. The message is clear: every higher education provider will be pulled into a single, integrated quality-assessment system that blends the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) with core regulatory conditions. For the sector, it’s a moment of scrutiny, but also a chance to rethink how we support students.
lthechat.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Asked Google for a definition of AI slop. This is what I got. Love the irony of it! Asking other educators and developers... what are your thoughts on this? #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky
December 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Asked Google for a definition of AI slop. This is what I got. Love the irony of it! Asking other educators and developers... what are your thoughts on this? #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky
Someone brought this 5-minute clip from Harvard GS of Education on facilitating class discussion to my attention, and I thought it would be of value for others. Thinking time - fits nicely with think-pair-share as well. instructionalmoves.gse.harvard.edu/waiting-stud... #AberPGCTHE
Waiting for student responses | Instructional Moves
instructionalmoves.gse.harvard.edu
December 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Someone brought this 5-minute clip from Harvard GS of Education on facilitating class discussion to my attention, and I thought it would be of value for others. Thinking time - fits nicely with think-pair-share as well. instructionalmoves.gse.harvard.edu/waiting-stud... #AberPGCTHE
Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup key topics include #ActiveLearning #UDL #InclusiveTeaching #GenAI and more! Feat. @activelearningnet.bsky.social @jisc.bsky.social @ft30uk.bsky.social @tilenetwork.bsky.social and more! wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSkyu #AcademicSky
November 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup key topics include #ActiveLearning #UDL #InclusiveTeaching #GenAI and more! Feat. @activelearningnet.bsky.social @jisc.bsky.social @ft30uk.bsky.social @tilenetwork.bsky.social and more! wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSkyu #AcademicSky
Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup of resources and online events useful for HE educators, posted today: wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky
Weekly Resource Roundup – 27/10/2025
October 10/2025 Jisc Artificial Intelligence, AI Training Sessions 28/10/2025 RAISE AI in HE SIG, Generative AI for Academics 29/10/2025 UDL-UKI, UDL Night School: UDL for Learning Spaces (£10) 29/…
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October 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup of resources and online events useful for HE educators, posted today: wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky
Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup dropped just now with loads on inclusive teaching, Gen AI, trauma-informed teaching, anti-racism, neurodivergence, group learning and more wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky
October 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup dropped just now with loads on inclusive teaching, Gen AI, trauma-informed teaching, anti-racism, neurodivergence, group learning and more wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky
This looks great for embedding wellbeing in our higher education teaching! Even if you can't participate live, the blog post has loads of useful ideas and resources. #AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky
Join me, and the amazing @lthechat.bsky.social team, on Wednesday 8th October 2025 at 20:00 BST to explore 'Embedding Mental Wellbeing' #LTHEchat
More details at: lthechat.com/2025/10/03/l...
More details at: lthechat.com/2025/10/03/l...
October 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This looks great for embedding wellbeing in our higher education teaching! Even if you can't participate live, the blog post has loads of useful ideas and resources. #AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky
Reposted by Dr Mary Jacob L&T
Did you know retrieval practice, or trying to recall previously taught material, is the single most robust learning strategy supported by research?
Just thinking about the previous content can aid long term retention
Take a look at our Covert Retrieval guide ⬇️
Contact us enquiries@impact.wales
Just thinking about the previous content can aid long term retention
Take a look at our Covert Retrieval guide ⬇️
Contact us enquiries@impact.wales
September 28, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Did you know retrieval practice, or trying to recall previously taught material, is the single most robust learning strategy supported by research?
Just thinking about the previous content can aid long term retention
Take a look at our Covert Retrieval guide ⬇️
Contact us enquiries@impact.wales
Just thinking about the previous content can aid long term retention
Take a look at our Covert Retrieval guide ⬇️
Contact us enquiries@impact.wales
New #WeeklyResourceRoundup to help HE educators teach effectively and inclusively wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky #LTHEchat @jisc.bsky.social @transformassess.bsky.social @qaa.ac.uk @edufuturist.bsky.social @activelearningnet.bsky.social @aldinhe.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
New #WeeklyResourceRoundup to help HE educators teach effectively and inclusively wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky #LTHEchat @jisc.bsky.social @transformassess.bsky.social @qaa.ac.uk @edufuturist.bsky.social @activelearningnet.bsky.social @aldinhe.bsky.social
Tonight! #LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social with Nathalie Tasler @drntasler.bsky.social on effective note-making looks great! Useful resources in the blog post too. lthechat.com/2025/09/19/l...
LTHEchat 336 Effective Note Making Systems from Paper to AI
Join us on Bluesky on Wednesday 24th September 2025 at 20:00 BST At the University of Glasgow we are in our first teaching week, the topic of note making, and its related systems see…
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September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Tonight! #LTHEchat @lthechat.bsky.social with Nathalie Tasler @drntasler.bsky.social on effective note-making looks great! Useful resources in the blog post too. lthechat.com/2025/09/19/l...
Loads of online events in the #WeeklyResourceRoundup to help university staff develop our teaching practice: wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky
September 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Loads of online events in the #WeeklyResourceRoundup to help university staff develop our teaching practice: wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #AcademicSky #EduSky
Reposted by Dr Mary Jacob L&T
I've been testing the accuracy of LLMs in transcribing printed and handwritten historical texts stored as images. I put together a corpus of 400 pages from the Library of Congress.
Current leader is GPT4.1-mini, which at 11 cents per 1K pages, is also the cheapest option. github.com/nealcaren/In...
Current leader is GPT4.1-mini, which at 11 cents per 1K pages, is also the cheapest option. github.com/nealcaren/In...
September 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I've been testing the accuracy of LLMs in transcribing printed and handwritten historical texts stored as images. I put together a corpus of 400 pages from the Library of Congress.
Current leader is GPT4.1-mini, which at 11 cents per 1K pages, is also the cheapest option. github.com/nealcaren/In...
Current leader is GPT4.1-mini, which at 11 cents per 1K pages, is also the cheapest option. github.com/nealcaren/In...
Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... feat. @jisc.bsky.social @qaa.ac.uk @transformassess.bsky.social @lauanshul.bsky.social #EmpowerED @edufuturist.bsky.social @learningscientists.bsky.social & more.
September 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
September 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
📢In my #NeededNowLT blog w @jasonmlodge.bsky.social
#QUT Kevin Ashford-Rowe
👇The centrality of academic judgement in assessment practice
✅Centrality of academic judgement
✅Don't panic
✅Build capability in assessment literacy
✅Generate a mature GenAI discourse
👏
open.substack.com/pub/neededno...
#QUT Kevin Ashford-Rowe
👇The centrality of academic judgement in assessment practice
✅Centrality of academic judgement
✅Don't panic
✅Build capability in assessment literacy
✅Generate a mature GenAI discourse
👏
open.substack.com/pub/neededno...
The centrality of academic judgement in assessment practice
Kevin Ashford-Rowe, Queensland University of Technology
open.substack.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Reposted by Dr Mary Jacob L&T
My colleague Sue Attewell leads our stream of work looking at staff and student perceptions of AI.
In a new blog post the focus is with a group of pre-sessional international students.
nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/09/0...
In a new blog post the focus is with a group of pre-sessional international students.
nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/09/0...
Student Perceptions 2025: Insights from a Group of Pre-sessional International Students at the University of Manchester - Artificial intelligence
How do international students preparing to study in the UK view AI? Sue Attewell spoke with a group of pre-sessional students at Manchester, mostly from China, about their hopes, worries and everyday ...
nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org
September 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
My colleague Sue Attewell leads our stream of work looking at staff and student perceptions of AI.
In a new blog post the focus is with a group of pre-sessional international students.
nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/09/0...
In a new blog post the focus is with a group of pre-sessional international students.
nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/09/0...
Reposted by Dr Mary Jacob L&T
Interesting read by @carlessdavid.bsky.social (2025) Feedback Literacy Concepts and Practices: Toward Academic Feedback Literacy, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 57:5, 5-11, DOI: 10.1080/00091383.2025.2539038
August 31, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Interesting read by @carlessdavid.bsky.social (2025) Feedback Literacy Concepts and Practices: Toward Academic Feedback Literacy, Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 57:5, 5-11, DOI: 10.1080/00091383.2025.2539038
Useful article about transmission style lectures and the assumptions that both students and teachers have. The illusion of attendance: a critical study of large-class lectures" by @colinloughlin.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky
The illusion of attendance: a critical study of large-class lectures
Large-class university lectures remain commonplace, yet their educational value is contested. While the majority of criticism contrasts transmissive lectures with active learning pedagogies, this c...
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September 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Useful article about transmission style lectures and the assumptions that both students and teachers have. The illusion of attendance: a critical study of large-class lectures" by @colinloughlin.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky
Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup with loads of resources to help you teach university (and other levels) effectively and inclusively. wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky
August 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Latest #WeeklyResourceRoundup with loads of resources to help you teach university (and other levels) effectively and inclusively. wordpress.aber.ac.uk/e-learning/2... #AberPGCTHE #EduSky #AcademicSky
Favourite article for #AberPGCTHE. In my seminar, they read Chew's article in advance. I start with quick retrieval practice of the 7 points. Then they type examples from their own experience into a shared doc and we discuss. My students are mostly new HE lecturers.
Choke Points and Pitfalls in Studying
A review of an incredibly accessible and useful journal article for students and teachers alike.
theeffortfuleducator.com/2022/01/27/c...
A review of an incredibly accessible and useful journal article for students and teachers alike.
theeffortfuleducator.com/2022/01/27/c...
Choke Points and Pitfalls in Studying - The Effortful Educator
A review of an incredibly accessible and useful journal article for students and teachers alike.
theeffortfuleducator.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Favourite article for #AberPGCTHE. In my seminar, they read Chew's article in advance. I start with quick retrieval practice of the 7 points. Then they type examples from their own experience into a shared doc and we discuss. My students are mostly new HE lecturers.
Reposted by Dr Mary Jacob L&T
Join our symposium on "Cognitive and Motivational Individual Differences in the Effectiveness of Desirable Difficulties" today at 12:15 in HS01.15. #earli2025
Looking forward to discuss the interesting work presented as part of this symposium.
Looking forward to discuss the interesting work presented as part of this symposium.
August 27, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Join our symposium on "Cognitive and Motivational Individual Differences in the Effectiveness of Desirable Difficulties" today at 12:15 in HS01.15. #earli2025
Looking forward to discuss the interesting work presented as part of this symposium.
Looking forward to discuss the interesting work presented as part of this symposium.
Anyone feel uneasy about the methods we are required to use to prove that we're an adult? Just curious!
July 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Anyone feel uneasy about the methods we are required to use to prove that we're an adult? Just curious!
Love that feeling when I'm marking student projects and come across one that is spot on - deep analysis, great use of sources, reflective, and deep insights into how students learn. These are our golden moments! #AberPGCTHE
July 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Love that feeling when I'm marking student projects and come across one that is spot on - deep analysis, great use of sources, reflective, and deep insights into how students learn. These are our golden moments! #AberPGCTHE
Reposted by Dr Mary Jacob L&T
Academic staff working at Cardiff University have been so traumatised by the management of a hugely controversial cuts programme that some have contemplated suicide or having an abortion ✍️Martin Shipton
Cardiff University academics 'have considered suicide and abortion because of cruel cuts programme'
Martin Shipton Academic staff working at Cardiff University have been so traumatised by the management of a hugely controversial cuts programme that some have contemplated suicide or having an abortio...
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June 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Academic staff working at Cardiff University have been so traumatised by the management of a hugely controversial cuts programme that some have contemplated suicide or having an abortion ✍️Martin Shipton