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Better Learning and Teaching in Times of Change

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Higher education has been through very significant changes in the past three years. COVID-19 disrupted and transformed much university teaching, with online teaching and learning becoming the norm. However, staff and students are still experiencing post-pandemic disturbance and adaptation to their personal, emotional, social and professional careers, a journey which is likely to continue for some time. Added to this, the emergence of AI chatbots like Chat GPT in 2022 have brought new worries that students' independent thinking and language expression skills will deteriorate, with accompanying risks to academic integrity.This talk will explore the nature of the recent changes in higher education, and their impact on both academic teaching and student learning. It will look at how to find effective new pathways that can take advantage of the pandemic disruptions, and also use new ways to positively incorporate AI into high-quality learning and teaching.  The educational, professional and personal well-being of faculty and students in these times of change will also be explored. "If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life" (Confucius) "Change is the Breath of LIfe" (Old Irish proverb).