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Teaching in Higher EdThe AI Con, with Emily M. Bender & Alex HannaEmily M. Bender & Alex Hanna share about their book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want on episode 576 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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What’s going on with the phrase artificial intelligence is not that it means something else than what we’re using it to mean, it’s that it doesn’t have a proper referent in the world.
-Emily M. Bender
There’s a much broader range of people who can have opinions on...2025-06-2641 min
Pondering AIThe Nature of Learning with Helen BeethamHelen Beetham isn’t waiting for an AI upgrade as she considers what higher education is for, why learning is ostensibly ripe for AI, and how to diversify our course. Helen and Kimberly discuss the purpose of higher education; the current two tribe moment; systemic effects of AI; rethinking learning; GenAI affordances; the expertise paradox; productive developmental challenges; converging on an educational norm; teachers as data laborers; the data-driven personalization myth; US edtech and instrumental pedagogy; the fantasy of AI’s teacherly behavior; students as actors in their learning; critical digital literacy; a story of future education; AI read...2025-02-1945 min
The Learning Development ProjectHelen Beetham: designing for a hopeful futureShow notes
We might see predominantly our own little slice of the higher education sector but something we all have in common is a concern with the knowledge ecology and how we think with students about their learning. For this, writing matters. Writing is a way of thinking and being; it is a form of dialogue, and conversation matters too - with each other, and with our students. By writing long-form essays on her Substack, Helen has found a lightening of voice and a closer connection to an audience. For her, writing is a commitment to writing...2023-09-261h 04
Beyond the Technology40. Demonstrating digital transformation - beyond blended - post-pandemic curriculum and learning designIn this podcast episode, Elizabeth Newall welcomes Helen Beetham and Sheila MacNeill, who discuss rethinking learning and curriculum design in higher education. Helen Beetham, a researcher in digital education and Sheila MacNeill, an independent consultant with experience in curriculum design talk about the importance of rethinking learning and curriculum design in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the need to adapt to new challenges. The conversation explores the evolution of curriculum design pre and post pandemic, emphasising a shift towards a more holistic approach. They introduce the concept of "beyond blended," which focuses on...2023-09-0540 minBeyond the Technology40. Demonstrating digital transformation - beyond blended - post-pandemic curriculum and learning designIn this podcast episode, Elizabeth Newall welcomes Helen Beetham and Sheila MacNeill, who discuss rethinking learning and curriculum design in higher education. Helen Beetham, a researcher in digital education and Sheila MacNeill, an independent consultant with experience in curriculum design talk about the importance of rethinking learning and curriculum design in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the need to adapt to new challenges. The conversation explores the evolution of curriculum design pre and post pandemic, emphasising a shift towards a more holistic approach. They introduce the concept of "beyond blended," which focuses on...2023-09-0540 minBeyond the TechnologyReviewing learning and curriculum designSarah Knight chats with consultants Helen Beetham and Sheila MacNeill about their recent review of learning and curriculum design in higher education. We chat with Helen and Sheila about the findings from their review, which included a desk-based literature review, a survey of over 155 professionals and 20 interviews with staff from within higher education. Alongside this, they also share examples of how universities are evolving their learning and curriculum design practices, and discuss how we can integrate things that worked well during the pandemic.2022-09-0651 minBeyond the TechnologyReviewing learning and curriculum designSarah Knight chats with consultants Helen Beetham and Sheila MacNeill about their recent review of learning and curriculum design in higher education. We chat with Helen and Sheila about the findings from their review, which included a desk-based literature review, a survey of over 155 professionals and 20 interviews with staff from within higher education. Alongside this, they also share examples of how universities are evolving their learning and curriculum design practices, and discuss how we can integrate things that worked well during the pandemic.2022-09-0651 min
Learning & Teaching @ Newcastle UniversityDigital learning activities, new technologies, and online safe spaces with special guest Helen BeethamHello and welcome to episode three of the Learning & Teaching @ Newcastle University podcast.
In this episode Suzanne Hardy from the Learning and Teaching Development Service here at Newcastle University speaks with education consultant, writer, researcher, and commentator Helen Beetham.2021-07-2127 min
How to Get Full Audiobook in Mysteries & Thrillers, EspionageThe Stratton Story by Elizabeth Cadell | Free AudiobookListen to full audiobooks for free on :https://hotaudiobook.com/freeTitle: The Stratton Story
Author: Elizabeth Cadell
Narrator: Helen Taylor
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-14-17
Publisher: The Friendly Air Publishing
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Cozy Mysteries
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The memory of her late husband's slow and painful death is fresh in Anita Stratton's mind when she finds herself confronted with the high-voltage glare of national publicity when her first novel rockets into the best-seller lists. The furor she arouses leaves her publishers, the staid and respectable firm of Beetham Brothers, as bewildered as she herself...2017-07-156h 06
JISC On Air (via iTunes)Developing digital literacies for working in a digital worldEpisode 7: Developing digital literacies for working in a digital world (Duration: 15:48)
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In the seventh episode of our online radio programmes – JISC On Air – we are exploring how colleges and universities are developing digital literacies for working in a digital world. This is the second part of a two-part series, focusing on digital literacies. Part one is available here.
With an estimated 90% of UK jobs requiring some level of IT competency, the notion...2012-05-2300 minJISC On Air (via iTunes)Digital Literacy – delivering the agenda within colleges and universitiesEpisode 6: Delivering Digital Literacy- delivering the agenda within colleges and universities (Duration: 21:34)
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In the sixth episode of our online radio programmes – JISC On Air – we are exploring how universities and colleges can help teaching staff, researchers, support and administrative staff to develop their digital literacies – those capabilities which prepare an individual for living, learning and working in a digital society. In part two of the show, we will be looking at how digital litera...2012-04-2400 minJISC On Air (via iTunes)Improving Student RetentionEpisode 3: Meeting students needs to improve retention (Duration: 18:17)
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In the third of a new series of online radio programmes – JISC On Air – we explore how digital technologies are helping universities and colleges to better meet students’ requirements and improve retention.
In this show, Kim Catcheside speaks with Richard Francis, Head of e-learning at Oxford Brookes University and Ellen Lessner, e-Learning Coordinator at Abingdon and Witney College about how their institutions are better...2011-03-2300 min