Patricia Xavier
@patricia-xavier.bsky.social
Engineering education. Staring across the chasm to the humanities. Ever wondering when this rickety bridge I'm trying to build will collapse.
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"No lectures, exams, essays: inside a twenty-first-century university"
No lectures, exams, essays: inside a twenty-first-century university
Some innovative higher-education institutions are reimagining pedagogy by prioritizing local needs over research and international student recruitment. Anna McKie visits one of them.
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From the NMITE educator perspective: you get the privilege of co-curating an 8 week learning experience with subject experts and industrialists. Genuinely authentic assessment (though 3 months prep time is normal). Learners work in teams most of the time. Learning is through direct conversations.
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#LTHEchat is organised by a rolling team of volunteers. Each term 3-4 volunteers join the organising team and are mentored by a previous volunteer.
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#LTHEchat is organised by a rolling team of volunteers. Each term 3-4 volunteers join the organising team and are mentored by a previous volunteer.
Are you interested in becoming a member of a future organising team?
If this is you, please complete this form docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Are you interested in becoming a member of a future organising team?
If this is you, please complete this form docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Q6 - If you could give one tip for making independent study inclusive, what would it be?
Reply with A6 #LTHEChat and your response @nbridgeman.bsky.social
Reply with A6 #LTHEChat and your response @nbridgeman.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Q6 - If you could give one tip for making independent study inclusive, what would it be?
Reply with A6 #LTHEChat and your response @nbridgeman.bsky.social
Reply with A6 #LTHEChat and your response @nbridgeman.bsky.social
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Q4 - What role does choice play in student engagement with independent study?
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November 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Q4 - What role does choice play in student engagement with independent study?
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Q3 - What are the biggest barriers your students face when engaging with independent study?
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Reply with A3 #LTHEChat and your response @nbridgeman.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Q3 - What are the biggest barriers your students face when engaging with independent study?
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Reply with A3 #LTHEChat and your response @nbridgeman.bsky.social
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Q2 - How do you currently support students to study outside of the classroom?
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Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response @nbridgeman.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Q2 - How do you currently support students to study outside of the classroom?
Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response @nbridgeman.bsky.social
Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response @nbridgeman.bsky.social
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It's time to submit your proposal for the Annual ANTF Symposium 2026!
Deadline for submissions is 15 December 2025 17:00 GMT
Further info here: ntf-association.com/call-for-con...
Deadline for submissions is 15 December 2025 17:00 GMT
Further info here: ntf-association.com/call-for-con...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
It's time to submit your proposal for the Annual ANTF Symposium 2026!
Deadline for submissions is 15 December 2025 17:00 GMT
Further info here: ntf-association.com/call-for-con...
Deadline for submissions is 15 December 2025 17:00 GMT
Further info here: ntf-association.com/call-for-con...
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#LoveLD - love #LTHEchat: A human-centred approach to digital leadership: lthechat.com/2025/11/03/l... . Weds 8-9 in Blue Sky. Follow the hashtag - Join the conversation - all welcome!
LTHE Chat 342: Digital Leadership for Inclusive and Strategic Change
Join us on Bluesky with guest Alison Purvis (@dralison.bsky.social) and Beth Fielding-Lloyd (@bethflloyd.bsky.social) on Wednesday, 5th November 2025 at 20:00 GMT Digital leadership in higher educa…
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November 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
#LoveLD - love #LTHEchat: A human-centred approach to digital leadership: lthechat.com/2025/11/03/l... . Weds 8-9 in Blue Sky. Follow the hashtag - Join the conversation - all welcome!
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This #EBAwarenessWeek, we want to say a huge thank you for your support to help us #FightEB and work towards our vision of a world where no one suffers with EB. 🦋
Reshare this post & find out how you can get involved and support the EB community here: https://bit.ly/4grgP1S
#EBAW #EBAW2025
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#EBAW #EBAW2025
October 31, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This #EBAwarenessWeek, we want to say a huge thank you for your support to help us #FightEB and work towards our vision of a world where no one suffers with EB. 🦋
Reshare this post & find out how you can get involved and support the EB community here: https://bit.ly/4grgP1S
#EBAW #EBAW2025
Reshare this post & find out how you can get involved and support the EB community here: https://bit.ly/4grgP1S
#EBAW #EBAW2025
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Q4 - In which ways can reflexivity be embedded across curricula to help postgraduate learners navigate and integrate their professional and academic identities?
Reply with A4 #LTHEChat and your response @david-t-evans.bsky.social
Reply with A4 #LTHEChat and your response @david-t-evans.bsky.social
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October 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Q4 - In which ways can reflexivity be embedded across curricula to help postgraduate learners navigate and integrate their professional and academic identities?
Reply with A4 #LTHEChat and your response @david-t-evans.bsky.social
Reply with A4 #LTHEChat and your response @david-t-evans.bsky.social
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Q2 - To what extent do educators explicitly teach the meaning and progression of academic descriptors (e.g., criticality, synthesis, evaluation, complexity) rather than assuming students understand them?
Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response @david-t-evans.bsky.social
Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response @david-t-evans.bsky.social
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October 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Q2 - To what extent do educators explicitly teach the meaning and progression of academic descriptors (e.g., criticality, synthesis, evaluation, complexity) rather than assuming students understand them?
Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response @david-t-evans.bsky.social
Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response @david-t-evans.bsky.social
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Q1 - How might the use of creative metaphors, such as “superpowers,” reframe students’ perceptions of their academic capabilities and ease imposter syndrome in postgraduate learning?
Reply with A1 #LTHEChat and your response @david-t-evans.bsky.social
Reply with A1 #LTHEChat and your response @david-t-evans.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Q1 - How might the use of creative metaphors, such as “superpowers,” reframe students’ perceptions of their academic capabilities and ease imposter syndrome in postgraduate learning?
Reply with A1 #LTHEChat and your response @david-t-evans.bsky.social
Reply with A1 #LTHEChat and your response @david-t-evans.bsky.social
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Join us for #LTHEchat with @david-t-evans.bsky.social at 8pm GMT today!
Read the blog post at: shorturl.at/tA9pJ
Read the blog post at: shorturl.at/tA9pJ
LTHE Chat 341: Superpowers for Level 7 Learning
Join us on Bluesky with guest Professor David T Evans @david-t-evans.bsky.social on Wednesday 29th October 2025 at 20:00 GMT Superpowers? I understand not everyone in…
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October 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Join us for #LTHEchat with @david-t-evans.bsky.social at 8pm GMT today!
Read the blog post at: shorturl.at/tA9pJ
Read the blog post at: shorturl.at/tA9pJ
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Join us Wednesday 22nd otber at 8pm BST for #LTHE Chat 340: Embedding Academic Skills in UK Higher Education: Why It Matters with guest @drchrism.bsky.social
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LTHE Chat 340: Embedding Academic Skills in UK Higher Education: Why It Matters
Join us on Bluesky with guest Dr Chris Martin @drchrism.bsky.social on Wednesday 22nd October 2025 at 20:00 BST When engaging in conversations with academic colleagues, the…
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October 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Join us Wednesday 22nd otber at 8pm BST for #LTHE Chat 340: Embedding Academic Skills in UK Higher Education: Why It Matters with guest @drchrism.bsky.social
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Vote YES in the FE ballot and talk to your colleagues about why you are voting YES. Together we can win better pay, fair workloads, and respect for our profession.
October 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Vote YES in the FE ballot and talk to your colleagues about why you are voting YES. Together we can win better pay, fair workloads, and respect for our profession.
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This from @nickhillman.bsky.social is well worth a read
Nick does proper evidence-based policy analysis, and we're better as a section because of him and his fantastic colleagues at HEPI
www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/10/17/h...
Nick does proper evidence-based policy analysis, and we're better as a section because of him and his fantastic colleagues at HEPI
www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/10/17/h...
Higher education policy: the lie of the land in England and Wales on the cusp of England’s post-16 white paper - HEPI
Introduction The other day, I was speaking to the University of Liverpool Council at the Ness Botanic Gardens on the Wirral, which as you know is four hours due north of here, pretty much on the Welsh...
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October 17, 2025 at 6:44 AM
This from @nickhillman.bsky.social is well worth a read
Nick does proper evidence-based policy analysis, and we're better as a section because of him and his fantastic colleagues at HEPI
www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/10/17/h...
Nick does proper evidence-based policy analysis, and we're better as a section because of him and his fantastic colleagues at HEPI
www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/10/17/h...
A3 anything too much like a step-by-step instruction book lacks real learning. The gaps between have to feel a little daunting, and take effort to move through the uncertainty. The sense of jumping off before quite knowing where you will be landing. Only works if there is trust though #LTHEchat
Q3 - What would an ideal framework look like for your discipline or institution? What features of flexibility would it need?
Reply with A3 #LTHEChat and your response @dwjames.bsky.social
Reply with A3 #LTHEChat and your response @dwjames.bsky.social
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October 15, 2025 at 7:28 PM
A3 anything too much like a step-by-step instruction book lacks real learning. The gaps between have to feel a little daunting, and take effort to move through the uncertainty. The sense of jumping off before quite knowing where you will be landing. Only works if there is trust though #LTHEchat
A2 surfacing it and hopefully normalising it to reduce the shame attached. I'll package different things together - creative and maths tasks that needs careful organisation (3 different skills). So there are more and different ways to bring various strengths to the task #LTHEchat
Q2 - When working with mixed-ability groups (especially in the first year), how do you ensure less-experienced stay engaged without holding back those with more experience?
Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response @dwjames.bsky.social
Reply with A2 #LTHEChat and your response @dwjames.bsky.social
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October 15, 2025 at 7:19 PM
A2 surfacing it and hopefully normalising it to reduce the shame attached. I'll package different things together - creative and maths tasks that needs careful organisation (3 different skills). So there are more and different ways to bring various strengths to the task #LTHEchat
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Just over ten minutes to go until this evening’s #LTHEchat :) This evening we will be discussing Games Based Teaching Tools. Still time to read through the blogpost at lthechat.com/2025/10/13/l... before we get started tonight
#LTHEchat @dwjames.bsky.social
#LTHEchat @dwjames.bsky.social
LTHE Chat 339: Game Frameworks – Teaching Tools for Game Design and Beyond
Join us on Bluesky with guest David James @dwjames.bsky.social on Wednesday 15th October 2025 at 20:00 BST Games Development as a university subject has grown significantly in popularity over the l…
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October 15, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Just over ten minutes to go until this evening’s #LTHEchat :) This evening we will be discussing Games Based Teaching Tools. Still time to read through the blogpost at lthechat.com/2025/10/13/l... before we get started tonight
#LTHEchat @dwjames.bsky.social
#LTHEchat @dwjames.bsky.social
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Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Swansea University
This is part of the 1950s and 1960s expansion, and is just round the corner from me :-)
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
This is part of the 1950s and 1960s expansion, and is just round the corner from me :-)
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
October 13, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Here's a #HigherEducationPostcard of Swansea University
This is part of the 1950s and 1960s expansion, and is just round the corner from me :-)
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
This is part of the 1950s and 1960s expansion, and is just round the corner from me :-)
If you like this image, please retweet it - remember, BlueSky has #NoAlgorithm
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It is peak academic to just get so angry about something that you’ve been bottling up that you finally explode and
Write a long poem
In rhyming meter
With footnotes 🥰
Write a long poem
In rhyming meter
With footnotes 🥰
Ode to the original language model, or:
Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs)
*(no predictive coding either!)
By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n
Give me literally Anything* instead of Large Language Models (LLMs)
*(no predictive coding either!)
By Lady Byronadrea LLMartin 1/n
October 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
It is peak academic to just get so angry about something that you’ve been bottling up that you finally explode and
Write a long poem
In rhyming meter
With footnotes 🥰
Write a long poem
In rhyming meter
With footnotes 🥰
From the NMITE educator perspective: you get the privilege of co-curating an 8 week learning experience with subject experts and industrialists. Genuinely authentic assessment (though 3 months prep time is normal). Learners work in teams most of the time. Learning is through direct conversations.
"No lectures, exams, essays: inside a twenty-first-century university"
No lectures, exams, essays: inside a twenty-first-century university
Some innovative higher-education institutions are reimagining pedagogy by prioritizing local needs over research and international student recruitment. Anna McKie visits one of them.
www.nature.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:38 AM
From the NMITE educator perspective: you get the privilege of co-curating an 8 week learning experience with subject experts and industrialists. Genuinely authentic assessment (though 3 months prep time is normal). Learners work in teams most of the time. Learning is through direct conversations.
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It’s just one hour to go to get your typing fingers ready :) Read the blog lthechat.com/2025/09/19/l... and follow the hashtag #LTHEchat. It’s that easy.
#notemaking #HECPD #Communityofscholars
#notemaking #HECPD #Communityofscholars
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 6:03 PM
It’s just one hour to go to get your typing fingers ready :) Read the blog lthechat.com/2025/09/19/l... and follow the hashtag #LTHEchat. It’s that easy.
#notemaking #HECPD #Communityofscholars
#notemaking #HECPD #Communityofscholars
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If you would like to volunteer to be a #LTHEchat Guest please complete this short form and we will be in touch. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Expression of interest to be a #LTHEchat Guest
Hello dear #LTHEchat friends,
If you would like to volunteer to be a #LTHEchat Guest please complete this short form and we will be in touch.
As a Guest you would choose a topic relating to learnin...
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September 23, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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We are back for the new academic year. Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat, which will explore Effective Note Making Systems from Paper to AI with @drntasler.bsky.social on Wednesday (tomorrow), 8-9pm BST. Read the blog post at: 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 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
We are back for the new academic year. Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat, which will explore Effective Note Making Systems from Paper to AI with @drntasler.bsky.social on Wednesday (tomorrow), 8-9pm BST. Read the blog post at: lthechat.com/2025/09/19/l...
KPIs get gamed, it's part of what's damaged HE. If staff turnover is used, might we see more temp contracts? If sick leave, how will this affect disabled ppl? If honest about problems and the rating is lowered, what consequences? Think like a v precarious PVC- Research. #LTHEchat
Q5 As the People, Culture and Environment (PCE) element of REF 2029 is being piloted, what key indicators do you think should be used to assess and evaluate research culture?
Reply with A5 #LTHEChat and your response
Reply with A5 #LTHEChat and your response
June 26, 2025 at 7:24 AM
KPIs get gamed, it's part of what's damaged HE. If staff turnover is used, might we see more temp contracts? If sick leave, how will this affect disabled ppl? If honest about problems and the rating is lowered, what consequences? Think like a v precarious PVC- Research. #LTHEchat