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Hello and welcome to episode 37 of the Learning & Teaching @ Newcastle University podcast. 

This week Ben Steel from LTDS sat down with Pro Vice Chancellor Education Professor Ruth Valentine and Dean of Digital Education Dr David Kennedy. 

AI text generating technologies have been around for a long time, but they have made significant advances in recent years. Most are trained on extensive data sets and are capable of producing human-like written content quickly and easily. There has been a lot of media coverage of these tools lately (in particular ChatGPT) with concerns raised about the risk they present to academic integrity. 

As with all emerging technologies, it is our role as educators to explore and investigate the opportunities they provide to our students’ educational experience, as well as to consider any potential negative impacts. Ben, Ruth and David discuss Newcastle University’s response to these tools, with a focus on the five principles for the use of AI at Newcastle. 

Thank you to our guests and we hope you enjoy this episode.  

If you would like to get in touch or have an idea you would like to share, please email ltds@ncl.ac.uk and use the title ‘Learning & Teaching @ Newcastle University Podcast idea’. 

Links from the episode 

LTDS and AI – https://www.ncl.ac.uk/learning-and-teaching/effective-practice/ai/ 

ASK Website – https://www.ncl.ac.uk/academic-skills-kit/good-academic-practice/artificial-intelligence/ 

AI in practice – https://newcastle.sharepoint.com/:w:/r/sites/LTDS/_layouts/15/Doc.aspx?sourcedoc=%7BFD7661EB-95A4-4E32-AA25-3CBE37193A38%7D&file=AI_live_guidance.docx&action=default&mobileredirect=true 

Newcastle University AI of the Possible week – https://elements.ncl.ac.uk/course/index.php?categoryid=304 

Nutella Community  

QAA and AI – https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/members/maintaining-quality-and-standards-in-the-chatgpt-era.pdf 

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Hello and welcome to episode 36 of the Learning & Teaching @ Newcastle University podcast. 

This week Ben Steel from LTDS sat down with Louise Masson a Librarian Liaison Officer from our Library Liaison team in the Philip Robinson Library. 

A reading list is an integral part of the student experience at University. Although it may be viewed as an archaic term these days, students are ‘reading’ for a degree. How do the students know what to read? It is the academic’s role to guide them. 

Louise talks about the importance of reading list within our student’s modules and programmes. Why they are important to the students, our teachers, and the library. And how decolonisation and diversification is vital to the future of our reading lists. 

Thank you to our guest Louise. We hope you enjoy this episode.  

If you would like to get in touch or have an idea you would like to share. Please email ltds@ncl.ac.uk and use the title ‘Learning & Teaching @ Newcastle University Podcast idea’. 

Links from the episode 

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/library/academics-and-researchers/reading-lists/

Reading List Training 

https://libguides.ncl.ac.uk/rltoolkit

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Hello and welcome to episode 35 of the Learning & Teaching @ Newcastle University podcast.

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This is the final in a three part mini series that will look at the pedagogy of Canvas and how educators from across Newcastle University are utilising the tools in Canvas to provide a rich learning experience for our students.

In this episode we have a long form conversation with Dr Helene Tyrrell a Lecturer in Law.

Helene spoke to Matt Laidler and Dan Graham, Learning Enhancement & Technology Advisers from the Learning and Teaching Development Service about how she gets the best out of Canvas.

If you would like to get in touch or have an idea you would like to share. Please email ltds@ncl.ac.uk and use the title ‘Learning & Teaching @ Newcastle University Podcast idea’.

Links from the episode

Transcript available.

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/learning-and-teaching/digital-technologies/canvas/

https://ncl.instructure.com/courses/76

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/learning-and-teaching/digital-technologies/canvas/ally/

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/learning-and-teaching/digital-technologies/canvas/baseline/

https://microsites.ncl.ac.uk/casestudies/tag/canvas/

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/learning-and-teaching/digital-technologies/canvas/help-and-support/

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas/ct-p/canvas

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Hello and welcome to episode 34 of the Learning & Teaching @ Newcastle University podcast.

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This is the second in a three part mini series that will look at the pedagogy of Canvas and how educators from across Newcastle University are utilising the tools in Canvas to provide a rich learning experience for our students.

In this episode we have the second part of a long form conversation between Dr Chris Grahams Director of Digital Learning from the school of Maths, Stats, and Physics, and Dr Adam Potts a Senior Lecturer from Philosophy.

Chris and Adam speak to Matt Laidler and Dan Graham, Learning Enhancement & Technology Advisers from the Learning and Teaching Development Service about how they get the best out of Canvas.

Next week we will be releasing further conversations with Dr Helene Tyrell from the Law School about her experiences using Canvas.

If you would like to get in touch or have an idea you would like to share. Please email ltds@ncl.ac.uk and use the title ‘Learning & Teaching @ Newcastle University Podcast idea’.

Links from the episode

Transcript available.

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/learning-and-teaching/digital-technologies/canvas/

https://ncl.instructure.com/courses/76

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/learning-and-teaching/digital-technologies/canvas/ally/

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/learning-and-teaching/digital-technologies/canvas/baseline/

https://microsites.ncl.ac.uk/casestudies/tag/canvas/

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/learning-and-teaching/digital-technologies/canvas/help-and-support/

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas/ct-p/canvas

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Hello and welcome to episode 33 of the Learning & Teaching @ Newcastle University podcast.

Transcript available.

This is the first in a three part mini series that will look at the pedagogy of Canvas and how educators from across Newcastle University are utilising the tools in Canvas to provide a rich learning experience for our students.

In this episode we have the first part of a long form conversation between Dr Chris Grahams Director of Digital Learning from the school of Maths, Stats, and Physics, and Dr Adam Potts a Senior Lecturer from Philosophy.

Chris and Adam speak to Matt Laidler and Dan Graham, Learning Enhancement & Technology Advisers from the Learning and Teaching Development Service about how they get the best out of Canvas.

Next week we will be releasing part two of this conversation.

If you would like to get in touch or have an idea you would like to share. Please email ltds@ncl.ac.uk and use the title ‘Learning & Teaching @ Newcastle University Podcast idea’.

Links from the episode

Transcript available.

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/learning-and-teaching/digital-technologies/canvas/

https://ncl.instructure.com/courses/76

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/learning-and-teaching/digital-technologies/canvas/ally/

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/learning-and-teaching/digital-technologies/canvas/baseline/

https://microsites.ncl.ac.uk/casestudies/tag/canvas/

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/learning-and-teaching/digital-technologies/canvas/help-and-support/

https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas/ct-p/canvas

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Hello and welcome to episode 32 of the Learning & Teaching @ Newcastle University podcast.

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In this episode, we look at how students at Newcastle University engage with our community in the North East to support learners from all age groups and areas of society.

Firstly we hear from Professor Jane Robinson, Pro-vice-chancellor for engagement and place. Jane introduces this episode and why this is very important to us, our students, and our community.

We speak to Naomi Nelson, an Outreach Ambassador in our SAgE faculty. As part of her undergraduate studies here at Newcastle, Naomi participated in the Street Science programme.

Alongside Naomi, we speak to Georgia Edge, a current undergraduate dentist student who supports the Brush Up scheme.

We speak to Naomi and Georgia about their experiences working in these schemes. We discussed how the schemes work on a day to day basis. How it helped their own learning and how it helped the people they were working with.

Finally, we spoke to Jenny Johnstone, a senior lecturer in our Law School, and Jasmine Davidge, who works with Jenny in our Law School. We talk to Jenny and Jasmine about Street Law. How the programme works, what our students get out of the scheme, and how it supports the people the students are working with in the community.

If you would like to get in touch or have an idea you would like to share. Please email ltds@ncl.ac.uk and use the title ‘Learning & Teaching @ Newcastle University Podcast idea’.

Links from the episode.

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Street Science

Brush Up

Street Law

Schools & Education Outreach

Engagement and Place Awards 2022