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Reading group insights: How AI is reshaping thinking, learning and ourselves

  • by Anna Armstrong
  • Posted on 14 May 202514 May 2025

Are today’s digital tools just helping us survive, or are they changing what it means to be human? Key takeaways from April’s reading group.

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Formulae for success: Improving maths videos with student feedback 

  • by Sue Venables
  • Posted on 15 January 202516 January 2025

Our video team tested new ways to present mathematical formulae in videos and asked students what they thought. Students’ favourite? Read on to find out!

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  • Digital education reading group

Clicks, Comments, and Conversations: What Drives Meaningful Engagement?

  • by Anna Armstrong
  • Posted on 19 November 202420 November 2024

We’re discussing the impact of tools such as ‘Like’ buttons on learner interaction, alongside broader questions about measuring and fostering meaningful engagement.

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  • Learning design

Learning from learners: How online discussions become “dead spaces”

  • by Anna Armstrong
  • Posted on 19 July 202419 July 2024

Our online learners told us that their discussion forms were “dead spaces” and had “no value”. In this post I will explore how this may have happened and ask if there is anything we can do about it.

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  • Reflections

Ambiguous Utopias: Highlights from the EDEN 2023 Annual Conference

  • by Tim Hall
  • Posted on 30 July 202319 September 2023

A report from the EDEN 2023 Annual Conference held in Dublin, in June. Tim shares his highlights of the event, and a selection of resources he collated.

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  • Learning design

When a learning designer becomes a student: Reflections on practice

  • by Hifzah Tariq
  • Posted on 3 February 202326 September 2023

Recently I had cause to question my own advice when my life as an online Master’s student collided with my professional role as a learning designer.

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Lessons from the studio: how to use a lightboard

  • by Anna Armstrong
  • Posted on 2 November 202227 July 2023

In this interview with Daniel Bennet, videographer, we discuss how to get the best results from a lightboard. Dan has been producing videos for our new MSc Cyber Security, with Dr Konstantinos Mersinas from Royal Holloway, University of London.

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  • Learning design

A day in the life of… a learning designer

  • by Anna Armstrong
  • Posted on 5 May 202227 July 2023

Developing good online learning is a complex and messy business. At the University of London…

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  • Director's blog

Instructional design and the theory-practice gap

  • by sambrenton
  • Posted on 3 February 20223 February 2022

Thoughts on the theory-practice gap in online education collaborations.

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  • Learning design

Sensitive subjects: Handling hard-hitting scenarios in forensic psychology

  • by Anna Armstrong
  • Posted on 26 January 20221 December 2023

On handling sensitive subjects on a new level 6 Forensic Psychology module for our online BSc Psychology with KCL…

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