Rachel Forsyth

@rmforsyth.bsky.social

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She/her. Interested in assessment, inclusion, curriculum design and digital. PFHEA. Occasionally blog at http://assessmentinhe.wordpress.com. Curious about GenAI in HE? Try our free MOOC http//www.coursera.org/learn/transforming-he-with-genai

Photograph of two folders which have "The Lecturer's Toolkit by Phil Race and Sally Brown" on the spine.
screenshot including this text: Submission size The production and maintenance of a portfolio can be time-consuming, and this would normally be taken into account when considering the length of each individual element and the reflective element. You need to decide whether you want to see all of the work that students have completed over the term, or a selection of the tasks. If it is a selection, will you choose which items are submitted (say, the lab reports from weeks 3, 7 and 9), or will you leave the choice to students (for instance, submit the four article summaries which best demonstrate your progress over the term)? You could make it time-based, and ask for one piece of evidence per week of the course. The answer will depend on whether you want to focus mostly on regular performance and acquisition of essential skills, or personal development across the module, and this will be linked to the unit learning outcomes. Make it very clear what you are expecting to see in terms of size, and if there are any penalties for submitting too much, or you may receive many appendices which you won't have time to assess properly.
A photograph of the four domains of AI literacy: Engaging with AI, Creating with AI, Managing AI, Designing AI. Full details of the framework in the link in the post.
Image if five people sitting in a stage under the banner "trend or here to stay? Education in a digital world"
Image of four speakers and a moderator on stage Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen ‐ Director-General, DG Education, Youth, Sport and Culture, European Commission Barbara Nowacka ‐ Minister of Education, Poland Nela Riehl ‐ Chair of CULT Committee, European Parliament Helena Lovegrove ‐ Senior Director for Operations & Projects, DIGITALEUROPE
Slide saying that now that AI can write code, it's more important than ever to learn to code.
Hadi Partovi talking about the new Digital Divide between those who do and don't learn about computing and AI.
Picture of Roxana Minzatu opening the European Commission Digital Education Stakeholder Forum 2025.
A description of the work of the artist EvaMarie Lindahl and her artistic process, described on the website linked to those post.
Screenshot of OpenAI data controls. Toggle for 'Improve the model for everyone' is off, and underneath it says 'Allow your content to be used to train our models, which makes ChatGPT better for you and everyone else'.
Screenshot from the publisher page for the book, with the text: 'Shirley zips into her skin-tight school uniform, which on the outside looks something like a ski suit. The lining of the suit in fact contains cabling that makes the suit a communication system and there are pressure pads where the suit touches skin that give a sense of touch. Next, she sits astride something that is a bit like a motorbike, except that it has no wheels and is attached firmly to the floor. Her feet fit on to something similar to a brake and accelerator and her gloved hands hold onto handlebars. She shouts, "I'm off to school, Dad". Her father, who is taking time out from his teleworking, begins to remind her that the family are going teleshopping in the virtual city later in the day, but it is too late, his daughter has already donned her school helmet. She is no longer in the real world of her real home, she is in the virtual world of her virtual school.' Is this the shape of the future of education? This book presents a vision of what will happen to education and training as information technology develops. The argument is simple. To prepare people for life in an information society they need to be taught with the technology of an information society. But what shape will that take? Can the classroom as we know it - a communications system which has been in place for four thousand years - be replaced? The authors argue that through the development of telecommunications for telelearning a genuine revolution in education is in the making. The book describes how, through the convergence of a cluster of new technologies including virtual reality, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology and the superhighways of telecommunications, a new educational paradigm will emerge in the form of a virtual class. Teachers, trainers and educators who worry about how best to prepare students for life in an ever-changing world will find much inspiration in this engagingly written and jargon-free book
Cover of the book "Confident Assessment in Higher Education" written by Rachel Forsyth and published by Sage, 2022.
Screenshot showing someone's BlueSky feed with a post from Justin Cerenzia asking people to check out different AI tools before vilifying AI followed by one saying that all examples of AI use show it is futile.
Bowl of Seville oranges in foreground, with pan of marmalade already cooking behind.
Meme of actor Nicholas Cage saying 'You don't say'
Newspaper headline saying "Report: Over half AZ (Arizona) teachers considering leaving the profession"
Bart Simpson writing repeated sentences on a blackboard. The sentence says "An AI tool is not a search engine"
Image of a traditional library with pillars, comfortable seating and soft lighting
Swedish student chair dressed in white night gowns and carrying lighted candles, singing traditional 'Lucia' song on 13 December.
The educational integrity enforcement pyramid by Ellis & Murdoch, 2024. There are five main categories of student: champion (bottom of triangle), compliant, careless, confused, chancers (top of triangle). Towards the top students are more likely to cheating.
Extract from Inside Higher Ed article about an AI textbook: Alexander Kusenko, a physics and astronomy professor at UCLA who co-founded Kudu, believes these textbooks have the potential to “make teaching more personal and more tailored to the students’ needs.” He added that a research project underway at UCLA’s Center for Education Innovation and Learning in the Sciences is already showing that AI tools are especially helpful to underrepresented minority students who may “face a social barrier asking questions from their peers or TAs or professors.” By contrast, “there is no social barrier for asking a computer to help.”
AI-generated cartoon of three people sitting round a table with bookcases behind them. The largest person is a man, sitting in the middle and with a speech bubble with images of 1) a speech bubble saying 'Bing', a megaphone (maybe) and an odd creature sitting in a tea cup. The two women sitting either side of the man look at him admiringly.
Photo of the cover of a book called 'AI Snake Oil - what artifical intelligence can so, what it can't, and how to tell the difference' by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor. The book cover only has text except for 2 snakes draped down rhe sides of the cover and facing each other.
A poor quality photo of text from an exhibition at Lund's Historical Museum in Sweden which describes how Clas Bechaert Trozelius wrote doctoral theses for payment in the 1700s.
Screenshot of part of an article which reads "It is very easy to get ChatGPT to emit a series of words such as “I am happy to see you.” There are many things we don’t understand about how large language models work, but one thing we can be sure of is that ChatGPT is not happy to see you. A dog can communicate that it is happy to see you, and so can a prelinguistic child, even though both lack the capability to use words. ChatGPT feels nothing and desires nothing, and this lack of intention is why ChatGPT is not actually using language. What makes the words “I’m happy to see you” a linguistic utterance is not that the sequence of text tokens that it is made up of are well formed; what makes it a linguistic utterance is the intention to communicate something."
A terrible AI generated image showing an ostrich with its head in the sand outside a traditional looking university building with alarm clocks and computer tablets dotted around in the sand, and a camera or something on a second head coming out of the ostrich's back. Image generated by Bing in May 2024, meant to represent professors with their heads in the sand about GenAI.