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Five questions to ask before adopting a new technology

LSE Higher Education Blog

Although educators and educational developers dont always have a say in the technologies our institutions adopt (for example, Turnitin) or our students have access to (such as generative AI), we still, usually, have some agency over how to respond to new technologies and whether or not to adopt them in our practice. Good teaching?

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Critical Studies of Education and Technology: A Call for Empathy and Equity (Part 2) #CSET2025

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Lawrie Phipps’ talk at our CSET event at UAL focused on the complexities and challenges faced by tutors/lecturers and students and the need for empathy and equity when using technology in education. International students, socio-economically disadvantaged students, and communities like Travellers often lack access to digital resources.

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The Future of Equitable AI in Higher Education

Insight Into Diversity

The council’s mission is to ensure that AI technology is developed and implemented to promote inclusivity rather than amplify privilege. CCA’s approach focuses on increasing educational attainment for underrepresented students by ensuring that their voices play a central role in the development of new technologies.

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Promises, Promises: Agency, Self-Actualization, the Higher Ed Social Contract

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The challenges facing racialized, minoritized and disadvantaged populations are not explicitly addressed by the strategic plans of higher education institutions. Advances in technology have not necessarily eased workloads for the working class. Earned degrees have not always translated into higher wage positions.

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Rethinking Exams in the Age of AI: Should We Abandon Them Completely?

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While AI can assist with diagnostics and offer suggestions, it lacks the human ability to assess a patient holistically, considering subtle symptoms, emotional cues and contextual factors. I embrace new technologies and innovative forms of assessment, but that doesn’t mean we should completely abandon traditional exams.

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A Values-Based Approach to Using Gen AI

Faculty Focus

As a learning designer in a centralized teaching and learning unit, it’s my job to explore new technologies, particularly AI. How am I supposed to make decisions about this emerging technology that I don’t fully understand? Humans are biased. But I’ll admit, I didn’t jump right in. For a while, I felt paralyzed.

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Working with our places will help us to spread the benefits of higher education more widely

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Or, to put it in more human terms: are people who previously wouldn’t have gone to university not only getting in, but thriving once they’re in? When a young person from a disadvantaged background earns a degree, it can spark a ripple effect that changes their family’s trajectory for good.