Advancing education beyond the audit; preparing students for life choices in the age of neoliberalism
The symposium outlines the impact of current government policy in micro-managing academic legal practice. A range of factors drives policy, including seismic shifts in the market for legal services caused by emerging technologies and globalization and a distrust of the perceived monopolistic effects on consumers of legal professions’ quasi-self-regulation. Increased competition and uncertainly exacerbate this student generation’s instrumentalism rather than fostering expectations of a transformative educational experience.Click here to read more and access the presentation (where available)
‘Eduveillance’: re-imagining the age of Bentham’s Chrestomatic-Panopticon
In a period of uncertainty and risk, higher education policy and practice is driven, increasingly, through the use of data and new technologies. Data, it seems, might have the answer to important concerns such as student retention and progression, diversity concerns or even optimisation of workloads.Click here to read more and access the presentation (where available)
How to beat fake news: advanced verifiability skills with Wikimedia
How can the debate around fake news help our students enhance their academic practice in areas such as research, referencing and the proper use of encyclopedias (and Wikipedia in particular)? What can Wikipedia and its sister projects Wikidata, Wikisource, Commons etc. contribute to online transparency? In which ways can Wikimedia support students and staff in developing advanced digital literacy skills and in deepening their understanding of concepts such as data-driven communication, verifiability and sematic web?Click here to read more and access the presentation (where available)
Capturing uncertainty: learning, research, teaching
Research on the impact on uncertainty on decision-making started in the 1908s with the seminal experiments conducted by Kahneman and Tversky (1974), which showed that human beings do not behave as rationally as economic theory postulates. Typical problems in which uncertainty arises include those where data are ambiguous, missing, and deceptive, and where data arise from unreliable sources.Click here to read more and access the presentation (where available)
'Unpaid Britain': an interdisciplinary and empirical study on the labour market, critical employability and the student experience
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