Dr Anthony 'Skip' Basiel – Blended Learning Solutions

AI Certificate 22/03/2025

The UK university that I work at as a Lecturer in Computing user experience (UX) design has started a new initiative to promote AI. They are evaluating an online  training certification mini-course. Students and staff can go through a set of text-based materials with supporting videos that have closed captions. This is followed by a traditional multiple choice question (MCQ) quiz. A traditional eTraining instructional design. The assessment is not meant to be ‘open book’, so you should be using your short-term recall of the lesson to answer the questions. 

This got me thinking about how AI can be applied in an innovative way to this learning design. Can I copy the question and answer choices into an AI generator to solve the quiz? Is this cheating?

What is the purpose of this training? To verify my understanding of AI content? To motivate me to want to embrace using AI in the university lessons?

How can we actually use AI in the assessment process to apply our knowledge and skills to solve real-world scenarios?  Here is the real challenge. 
Please see my research in progress to develop an AI Learning Simulation Assessment model at https://abasiel.uk/2024/07/01/4-stage-ai-learning-simulation-model/
Please do email abasiel@gmail.com if you are interested in collaboration. Cheers, Anthony

University of Winchester 12/03/2025

I am pleased to announce that I am now working part-time with the University of Winchester as a Dissertation Project Supervisor.

I look forward to developing curriculum innovation and explore research and development opportunities. Please do email abasiel@gmail.com if you are interested in collaboration.

Elsevier Researcher Academy 03/03/2025

Here is a set of free research resources that can be applied to any subject area or knowledge domain. These can help you write your dissertation project chapters. See https://researcheracademy.elsevier.com/learn
Please email me if you have any questions. – Dr Anthony Basiel abasiel@gmail.com

New book chapter for 2025 01/03/2025

Chapter 1.4 is entitled , ‘Learning Technology Design for Immersive Discussion’. I did this chapter with Dr Mike Howarth. Please email abasiel@gmail.com if you would like to collaborate.

Diagrams to explain the research process 26/02/2025

This short video provides a series of figures to provide support in the stages of conducting and writing up your dissertation research project. These tools can be used for Computing Science User Experience (UX) studies or other generic investigations. Please do email abasiel@gmail.commailto:abasiel@gmail.com with any questions.
This link provides a PDF version of the video slides. – yours, Anthony

User Experience (UX) tools for Hierarchal Task Analysis (HTA) 26/02/2025

This short video provides a set of tools to UX research consultants to gather data for use in analysing your wireframes and prototype UX solutions. This resource also aids in developing and HTA. Please do email me at abasiel@gmail.com with any questions or comments.
You can download the PDF file to get the weblinks to the resources.
Yours, Anthony

Developing a University Business Curriculum for an Entrepreneurship Module 21/02/2025

This post provides resources to anyone interested in developing a university business curriculum. It includes elements such as:
> Scheme of Work
> Learning Outcomes
> Learning Resources
> Assessment Models

You can download the PDF version of the presentation video below. Please do contact me with any questions. I am happy to consult you or your organisation to apply this model. – Dr Anthony ‘Skip’ Basiel abasiel@gmail.com or WhatsApp +44(0)7771998799

This video is 21 minutes long.

Generic Dissertation Project Content Guide 14/02/2025

This video aims to provide support to entering content into a UK university dissertation report document. The structure for the report used in the video is based on one university template. Your university may have different headings, so be sure to check your assessment description. The intent of this resource is to guide you to entering content into the dissertation report so any claims made are backed by evidence. Each section of the report should help map the project SMART objectives through the narrative evidence to support the conclusions. Please do email abasiel@gmail.com subject: Generic Dissertation Guide with any questions. I am happy to collaborate. – Yours, Dr Anthony Basiel

You can download the Word document guide used in the video to use. Click here to access.
You can download the transcript of the video here. Click to access.

Learning Assessment Turing Test: Human or AI? 23/01/2025

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I’m working with the York SJ Computing Science team on a British Council proposal. You can see the details at https://tinyurl.com/BC-STEM2025.
We are considering another AI related project for assessment review 

a) Give the AI the assessment learning outcomes and marking rubric to assign a grade. Compare to the human marks.

b) AI v. human – both feedback text to students to do a ‘Turing test’. Which is human? 

We are working on the research case study model to provide the student test groups with text samples of both AI and human generated marks and feedback. Using an online survey (human/AI composed) we will see if the students can spot the human feedback from AI comments. The lectures will determine if the AI marking falls in range with the human marks.

If you would like to collaborate on this project or join in the publication of the results, please contact me on abasiel@gmail.com

The difficult we do at once, the impossible takes a little longer: Reflections on a British Council project proposal 15/01/2025

The quote, ‘ the difficult we do at once, the impossible takes a little longer.’ was originally from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during World War II to show success in seemingly insurmountable odds. I was given the challenge to: a) write a British Council (BC) project proposal for the going global partnership STEM project¹ b) compile a budget to train 100 STEM Tutors – all in 10 days!

The first step was finding a UK university that would be the host. This was not easy as most UK HEIs (higher education institutions) don’t have a lean management structure to make quick decisions (especially in early January).
Next, I worked through the BC forms and budget guidelines linking to the global mission statement. I learned from past international projects that links to the core objectives of the funding agency is vital.
Lastly, this is not a task that can be done in solitude. You need a supportive team that can bring their tacit professional knowledge, skills and capabilities to the table. I found that ‘mission impossible’ crew at York Saint John, UK.
This story is still in progress, so watch this space…..

Please do email abasiel@gmail.com if you are interested in collaborating on R&D projects.

1. https://tinyurl.com/BCopportunities ↩︎