In this interactive webinar Edward Palmer discuss the increasing awareness and capabilities of AI and its likely impact on education. By providing a background of where AI has come from and how it is currently being used we address the new version of ChapGT and its ability to produce work that is indistinguishable from a good students output. We also address other AI engines that can create scripts, books, artwork and videos that will challenge our abilities to assess creative output as we have done in the past.

The aim of the webinar is to introduce participants to the valuable HERDSA Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) online learning modules. The modules introduce new scholars to the role and value of SoTL in an academic’s professional learning plan and remind experienced scholars of the process of designing and implementing a SoTL project.

There have always been discipline based academics whose passion has been education rather than research.  The contribution and commitment of these faculty, while often valued within their own department, has largely gone unrecognised at an institutional level in absence of clear guidelines and a national policy.  However, this is slowly changing.  More and more institutions now have teaching/education focused academics  engaging in scholarship, accessing professional development opportunities and with career progression akin to those with traditional teaching and research work portfolios.

This will be an interactive, free-form activity that includes facilitation of skills in yarning, and some background about the practice of yarning. During the session you will engage in yarning, and reflect on this as a way of learning about self and others, in research and teaching. The outcome will be an understanding of a different way of knowing, and a new way of sharing practice.

Presenters Dr Denise Wood (facilitator) and Mr Lloyd Dolan (key presenter)