Everyone’s worried about students developing AI skills, but is there enough attention paid to educators? It’s not just about teaching AI literacy, it’s about using AI capabilities to support curriculum and learning design, assessment, and teaching administration – and being able to use academic judgement on continuing to uphold academic quality and standards while doing so. This session will seek your views on how AI changes the academic quality environment and how best to support educators across higher education to use it in the most appropriate and impactful ways.
It might be a “new era of collaboration” in higher education but collaboration happens from skills not just will. Our expert panel will discuss some of the nuts and bolts of working together across institutional boundaries: how to build common purpose, manage collective delivery and manage all the big personalities involved.
As it turns out the big worry is less about whether generative AI is coming for knowledge workers’ jobs and more what kind of currency the idea of knowledge, truth and fact can have in an AI-saturated world.
Discussion sessions will take the form of a brief initial provocation followed by open debate and sharing of views from those attending.
Trust underpins a whole range of relationships in higher education: between leaders and staff, educators and students, and between institutional actors and communities and stakeholders outside the institution; as well as the relationship between higher education and the public. But sometimes it doesn’t – trust appears fragile, fragmented, or absent. Who can be trusted in higher education, and on what grounds?
Discussion sessions will take the form of a brief initial provocation followed by open debate and sharing of views from those attending.
Student support needs seem to be changing in inverse proportion to the amount of money sloshing around to throw at the problems. Layering more provision on top of what’s already there isn’t an option for most – it’s time to rethink how students are enabled to thrive. Our experts will share their evidence base and invite you to share your insight from your own knowledge and experience.
Discussion sessions will take the form of a brief initial provocation followed by open debate and sharing of views from those attending.
“Marketisation” gets blamed for a lot of HE’s ills – but the prospect of market management in the forms of measures like student number controls isn’t especially palatable either. This session will discuss where the appetite is to restrict institutional freedoms in the service of the system as a whole – and what the implications might be for regulation.
Discussion sessions will take the form of a brief initial provocation followed by open debate and sharing of views from those attending.
Wonkhe news editor Michael Salmon offers a tour of the biggest stories in HE and explores why they land and what they mean outside of media-land.
The aim of this session is to introduce the idea of a common data model for higher education providers, highlight the benefits of such an approach for the processes and functions that providers carry out, and offer an insight into the work that UCISA and others are currently undertaking in this area.
Come and meet the Team Wonkhe people behind the headshots, while we chat through what makes a great article for the site.
Paul Greatrix hosts a live episode of My Imaginary University – the podcast where guests are invited to build their fantasy higher education institution from the ground up. A Festival of Higher Education staple for a reason.