• The Intern: An Unexpected Journey

    The last Thursday in July marks National Internship Day for many international students, and this year Edge Hill University has employed 20 digital interns to work alongside the Learning Technology Development team to support the move from Blackboard Original to Blackboard Ultra.

    One of our student interns, Michelle Hopwood, has given us her account of what it takes and involves to become a student intern at Edge Hill.

    The path to being an intern in any organisation is like stepping into a pool of new learning opportunities and experience to develop as a student and as a person. Internships expose students to real life scenarios, responsibilities and challenges that cannot be learnt from a book or journal article. Whether a summer internship, a module placement, or a year long internship, being an intern offers students valuable development and growth opportunities.

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  • Getting Started Using ‘Generative AI’ Tools

    3D render of a helpful robot writing

    With the growth in awareness and use of ‘Generative AI’ tools, there are a lot of things that Universities need to do and consider.

    One of the things we want to do is to help academic staff improve their understanding of these tools so they can talk more confidently to students about them. To help with this we’ve updated our LinkedIn Learning ‘Getting Started Using ‘Generative AI’ Tools’ Learning Path. You could go through all, or some of the video courses as required.

    Image Credit: “3D render of a helpful robot writing” created using DALL.E


  • LinkedIn Learning: Using Skill Evaluations and Skill Assessments to Develop Your Understanding

    If you use the video courses on LinkedIn Learning you may be interested in Skill Evaluations. These are self-evaluations of your knowledge.

    Links to Skill Evaluations can be found at the top of LinkedIn Learning’s search results pages.

    After completion you are given suggestions of courses suitable for your skill levels.

    LinkedIn also has Skill Assessments which are timed tests. If you get a score in the top 30% you get a ‘skill badge’, but if you fail you have to wait several months to take the test again. The assessment questions are fairly simple multiple choice questions, but they cover a wide range of features meaning that you need a quite extensive knowledge of the software to complete the assessment.

    You can use both of these features together to develop and then test your skills. If you have added the skill to your LinkedIn profile ‘Skills’ section, the Skill Assessment will be linked to it.


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