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Category: TEL research

  • Our paper wins the EDEN Best Research Paper Award 2026

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    Thomas Ullmann
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    We are delighted to share that our paper, “Before the First Prompt: Understanding Students’ Pre-Use Perceptions of an AI Digital Assistant in Higher Education”, has been awarded the EDEN Best Research Paper Award 2026 at the Annual EDEN Conference, held in Porto, Portugal, from 14–16 June 2026. This is a proud moment for our team and a meaningful recognition of our…

  • Call for Papers: Special Issue on AI, Curriculum Futures and Human-Centred Student Support

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    Thomas Ullmann
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    We are pleased to invite submissions for a forthcoming special collection in the Journal of Interactive Media in Education (JIME) focused on: AI, Curriculum Futures and Human-Centred Student Support Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping higher education — transforming curriculum design, assessment practices, student support, and institutional strategy. As generative and predictive AI systems become embedded…

  • Unlock the Power of Generative AI in Education with The Open University

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    The Open University’s Institute of Educational Technology (IET) is introducing a cutting-edge suite of short CPD courses designed to help educators harness the latest innovations in digital teaching. At the heart of this offering is Generative AI in Education (https://www.open.ac.uk/courses/short-courses/hg091/), a course that explores how AI can transform learning design, personalise student experiences, and streamline…

  • IET colleagues present the latest thinking about AI and the Future of Education

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    Thomas Ullmann
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    Bart Rienties and I from IET, joined by Mychelle Pride (Academic Director PVC-Student) and Paul Prinsloo (Unisa), recently presented our latest thinking about AI and the Future of Teaching and Learning during the European Open and Digital Learning Week (EODLW) 2024. Our session was moderated by Sandra Kucina Softic, who is the Vice President of…

  • Strong IET presence at the EDEN 2024 conference

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    IET was strongly represented at this year’s EDEN conference, where Denise Whitelock and Thomas Ullmann gave presentations about generative AI for teaching and learning. EDEN is the flagship conference of Europe’s leading network for advancing digital education. This year, it was held in sunny Graz, Austria, from June 16 to 19, 2024, with a great…

  • OpenLearn Create analytics using R

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    Thomas Ullmann
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    I was invited to speak at the Open TEL Learning at Scale Special Interest Group about my work on the Fleming project. I am the Data Analytics lead of the Fleming fund project at the Open University, which is also the global learning lead for Fleming. In my presentation, I focused on how I compile…

  • Quick Zotero guidance to start collaborating on a paper

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    Zotero is a great open-source software for managing your references. Zotero allows the creation of a repository of articles (Zotero group). This allows group members to add references to the same library, a great feature when collaborating on an article. Everyone can store their articles in that group, and all articles are then synced to…

  • Simon Penn’s viva success

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    Thomas Ullmann
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    Please join us in congratulating our EdD student and WELS colleague Simon Penn, who successfully defended his thesis entitled ‘A comparative analysis of the comprehension of text and screencast feedback by distance learning students’. The examiners recommended a pass without corrections. The panel chair noted that the three examiners were impressed with the quality of…

  • Randomising the word order of a text

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    Thomas Ullmann
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    To share texts with others, it occasionally may be necessary to obfuscate what was written so that it is not so easy to understand what a person has said. The following approach randomly changes the word order in a text. This makes it hard to understand the person’s writing, which helps towards anonymisation. Of course,…

  • List of useful commands

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    Here is a list of commands that I use on a regular basis to explore texts: grep -Ir –exclude=”*\.svn*” “pattern” *It searches recursively, ignores binary files, and doesn’t look inside Subversion hidden folders. grep mit colour option: grep -ri –color=auto “needle” . only tex files: grep -ir –color=auto –include=’*.tex’ ‘needle’ . Searching in the BAWE…