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Over six years, through a consistent assessment administered to cohorts of 500 to 800 students, an unintended experiment took shape. I didn’t set out to create an AI study. I was designing a realistic assessment of workplace communication and judgement. AI simply arrived mid-experiment, like a colleague who joins a…Read more
Embracing AI effectively for assessment and to develop employability skills
For the last three years at University of Sussex Business School, we have taken the view that generative AI is here to stay and have been evolving our approach to attempt to use it productively, rather than treating it only as a threat to academic integrity. What we’ve arrived at…Read more
Are we designing accounting education for the wrong world?
Dr. Ramchandra Bhusal calls for a fundamental rethinking of professional development in the digital age In this free webinar, Dr. Ramchandra Bhusal asks whether accounting education is still being designed around assumptions that no longer fully reflect how modern professional learning takes place. Drawing on his the session discusses Applied…Read more
Belonging through storytelling: why narrative matters in accounting education
Employers want graduates who can interpret, communicate, and exercise judgement. As two chartered accountants who have spent careers bridging professional practice and academia, Emma Elkington and Catriona Hyde argue that storytelling is how we get there — and why belonging may be the most transformative learning outcome of all. In…Read more
Set up an Accounting Club in your local school
Set up an Accounting Club in your local school. It is such a hugely rewarding activity that positively impacts students. If you’re ready to introduce Accounting Club into your school and want to be an accredited Accounting Club Educator — an ACE — the information you need is in Accounting Clubs in Schools …Read more
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Over six years, through a consistent assessment administered to cohorts of 500 to 800 students, an unintended experiment took shape. I didn’t set out to create an AI study. I was designing a realistic assessment of workplace communication and judgement. AI simply arrived mid-experiment, like a colleague who joins a…Read more
Susan Wolcott on designing courses and assignments that get accounting students to move from rule-following to critical reflection. Most accounting students start out wanting to find the right answers. Far fewer learn what to do when there isn’t one. In this free webinar, Susan Wolcott argues that the gap can…Read more
For the last three years at University of Sussex Business School, we have taken the view that generative AI is here to stay and have been evolving our approach to attempt to use it productively, rather than treating it only as a threat to academic integrity. What we’ve arrived at…Read more
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