Colin Loughlin

Lund conferment ceremony (graduation). Lots of pomp and grandeur; orchestra, canons, and a three hour service in Latin, what's not to like! Apparently my Latin name is Colinus 😎

Thanks Peter :)👍

Seminar title: Teachers’ sensemaking around their use (and non-use) of GenAI Abstract: In the absence of official guidelines and institutional strategies, teachers around the world have been left largely to make sense of generative AI (genAI) tools for themselves. We present empirical work from teachers across six Swedish and Australian schools to illustrate the complex ways in which staff are beginning to work with genAI tools – pointing to the influence of pedagogical knowledge, professional self-understandings, contextual awareness, values and emotions. On one hand, these teachers’ circumspect approaches might be celebrated as ensuring that genAI tools complement (rather than compromise) key tenets of public education and the standing of the expert teacher. On the other hand, we also consider what might risk becoming lost through these interactions, and the benefits of supporting broader workforce-wide conversations that develop shared understandings around the roles that these new technologies should be allowed to play in contemporary schooling. 21st May 2025 - 13:15 to 15:00 in LUX B:237 on the Lund University campus.

"Teachers’ sensemaking around their use (and non-use) of GenAI" - f2f seminar at Lund University on May 21st ... we'll be presenting early findings on what Swedish teachers are doing with GenAI ... if you're in the Lund/Malmö/Copenhagen area do join us! www.uvet.lu.se/nyheter/kale...

Building higher education: the tension between espoused educational values and physical infrastructure - Higher Education Through interviews with senior academic management representing 16 UK higher education institutions (HEIs), this study explores the relationship between the espoused pedagogical values focusing on stu...

🚨 New publication alert 🚨
My latest research article, 'Building Higher Education', which looks at the disconnect between student-centred rhetoric and the construction of large class lecture halls has just been published: dx.doi.org/10.1007/s107...

Passed my PhD defence today, newly crowned Dr Loughlin 🥳

The illusion of attendance: a critical study of large-class lectures Large-class university lectures remain commonplace, yet their educational value is contested. While the majority of criticism contrasts transmissive lectures with active learning pedagogies, this c...

An early Christmas present for me, and some light reading for your holiday: my latest paper has just been published, taking a critical look at the educational value of large-class lectures doi.org/10.1080/1356...