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ALDinHE supports and champions the work of learning developers through community building and practice-sharing, facilitating research and dissemination, and providing professional development opportunities. We also connect and collaborate with other like-minded organisations around the world who share these goals.

Learning developers work with students in an educational bridging role. They mediate between the knowledge and skills which students bring to university and the demands and conventions of academic subjects, guiding students to navigate their university studies.

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#Take5 #118 From Statistics Anxiety to Confidence: The Power of Co-design and Collaboration between Academic and Library Support in Health Education

Studies show nursing students experience significant maths anxiety (MA) (Bull 2009; McMullan, Jones and Lea 2012); this is the ‘fear or an adverse emotional response to the idea of doing mathematics’ (Hart and Ganley 2019, p. 122). As MA is correlated with lower maths performance in nurses (Bull 2009), Dr Katie Woodhouse-Skinner (Academic Skills and Statistics Tutor) and Hannah Glenn (Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing), wanted to know whether they,…

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AI for Students by Josh Thorpe

#Take5 #117 What’s the deal with chickens? AI’s weakness becomes a strength.

Introduction Josh Thorpe is an Academic Skills Advisor in the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Stirling in Scotland. Josh has been an academic advisor and writing instructor for over 15 years. He is the author of a new book, AI for Students. It is an illustrated guide to practical strategies for working with AI tools in education—without cheating or outsourcing creative human…

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Collective Diary 15 November 2024

On the 15th of each month, we are inviting those working in the field of learning development to share their day. Write up what you have done on the 15th of the month (or your nearest working day to this date) (plus reflections) and share it with us via this short submission form. The entries will be shared here on the ALDinHE blog. The ALDinHE website was previously used for a…

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#Take5 #116 Educator appears perplexed with student’s statement in assignment that GenAI was used to support their learning

This #Take5 is brought to you by Chrissi Nerantzi, Professor in Creative and Open Education at the University of Leeds. Chrissi shares a real-life scenario of a student’s use and declaration of AI and asks how you would react if one of your students declared their use of GenAI. Chrissi provides some useful questions to reflect upon and shares some openly licensed crowdsourced collections if you would like to learn…

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