Tag: process
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Obstacles to developing academic expertise
Developing academic expertise is challenging due to delayed feedback, unclear processes, and limited opportunities to observe experts. The post explores how academic tools and systems often lack the capacity for nuanced expression and open-endedness, making it difficult for scholars to attain virtuosity in their field and develop expert performance.
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Report: Assessment reform for the age of AI
TEQSA’s report “Assessment reform for the age of artificial intelligence” outlines principles and propositions for reforming higher education assessment practices in response to AI. It emphasizes integrating AI ethically, focusing on systemic approaches, learning processes, collaboration, and security. The report aims to guide institutions in adapting to AI while maintaining academic integrity.
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Claude, help me to write
Yesterday I published a post describing my concerns with how universities are responding to the new paradigm of expertise-on-demand that’s facilitated by generative AI. At the end of that post I noted that I wrote it collaboratively with Claude, and this post describes what that process (kind-of) looked like. I also want to be clear…
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Knowledge work and academic productivity
This is an introduction to a new project I’m starting where I think about, explore, and discuss ideas around workflow, process, and productivity as a knowledge worker. If being an academic is about using information to create value for others, then I don’t think that we have systematic processes that we can use to manage…
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UWC writing for publication retreat: day 2
Today has focused on the practical aspect of publication i.e. actually writing, so we didn’t have as many presentations. We began by reviewing some of what was discussed yesterday and adding a few reflections and comments from participants. Yesterday, one of the presenters suggested the CARS (link downloads PDF) model for structuring an Introduction. Today,…