Talking Teaching across the Globe

This popular webinar series brings together Oxford Brookes University staff and colleagues from across the sector to discuss and explore inspirational practice and emerging trends in teaching, learning and assessment.

We believe in the power of community and connection to lessen academic isolation and to provide hope and help in rapidly changing times so that we can continue to create effective student learning environments. Each webinar or workshop offers the opportunity to share practice, ask questions and consider ways to enhance your academic practice.

Our focus for 2024/25 will be on showcasing the work of colleagues at Oxford Brookes. This will include the way student partnership has been used to enhance teaching and learning, inclusive approaches to teaching and learning, and the ways assessment and teaching and learning have been adapted in the face of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI).

If you too have discovered interesting ways to adapt your academic practice to include student partnership, more inclusive practices and in the face of GenAI, and would like to contribute, then please get in touch via the OCAED email (ocaed@brookes.ac.uk) or use the same email to tell us about a topic you think we should be covering.

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Upcoming events

Lessons learnt from asking students to complete assignments using GenAI

Thursday 23 January 2025, 12.00pm - 12.50pm

With Alice Gerlach FHEA, Deputy Head of Law and Social Sciences (Education and Student Experience), Oxford Brookes University and Eleanor Bland, Programme lead for Criminology, School of Law and Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University.

Alice Gerlach and Eleanor Bland will share their experience working with student partners for the ACT Fund special call: GenAI in Teaching, Learning and Assessment.

For this small project, three students were asked to ‘complete’ Criminology assessments using GenAI. In this talk, Alice and Eleanor will share the findings from this work and hope to discuss the implications of these with members of the teaching and learning community.

Fostering student-staff trust in the age of GenAI

Thursday 27 February 2025 1.00pm - 1.50pm

With David Nelson FHEA Lucy Widdowson FHEA, Oxford Brookes Business School.

David Nelson is a Pathways Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and a Fellow of HEA. David’s research interests are Students as Partners (SaP), Education for Sustainability and student-tutor trust in the age of Gen AI.

Lucy Widdowson is Teaching Fellow at Oxford Brookes University. Her research focuses on peer feedback, AI, and sustainability in the curriculum. Involved in projects across departments, disciplines, and with student partners, she values teamwork and collaboration.

David and Lucy will reflect on their students as partners (SaP) project, and present the resource they created to enable teachers and students to collaboratively build mutual trust.

They will invite attendees to consider how they can explore trust and collaborative learning between tutors and students, student expertise, co-creation, student voice and agency, responsible and critical use of Gen AI, the international student experience, inclusivity, engagement, community, workplace skills, interdisciplinarity, and transformative potential.