Black History Month open educational resources Kortext Open Resources Collection
By Melissa Bowden

Black History Month 2023 – decolonising reading lists

October 25, 2023

In the academic year 2020/21, 39.4% of white graduates got a first class degree, compared with 20% of Black graduates, according to government statistics. While the gap between white and Black graduates achieving a first or 2:1 has narrowed (from 26.2% in 2014/15 to 18.6% in 2020/21), there is still much work to be done

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By Melissa Bowden

Kortext Premium – the future of learning, powered by AI

October 20, 2023

ChatGPT-3 was launched less than a year ago, on 30 November 2022, and since then has taken the higher education sector by storm. While no definitive statistics on student use are available yet, a freedom of information request made to Scottish universities revealed thousands of student connections to the generative AI chatbot since May. It’s

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Sarah Ison University of Sussex
By Melissa Bowden

Meet the Librarian – Sarah Ison

September 29, 2023

What’s it like to support students around the world who study online and never visit the university library in person? We spoke to Sarah Ison, Online Distance Learning Librarian, from the University of Sussex to find out! How and when did you decide to become a librarian? It wasn’t until I was doing my geography

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