Digital Education and Technologies for Teaching and Assessment (DETTA)

The learning circle is intended as a forum for exploring good practice and innovation in digital education and technologies for teaching and assessment. DETTA is a space to explore new ideas to overcome community challenges through ideation and connection with domain experts as well as exploring new technologies and updates to existing technologies, such that recommendations can be made and disseminated across the University.

The membership is intended to be a standard learning circle with a critical friends group. However, other members of the academic community may be seconded into the learning circle on a temporary basis if they are keen to explore a learning technology and/or have expertise in its use.

It is hoped that WIHEA fellows (students, technologists, academics and professional services colleagues) will be interested in joining the learning circle.

Learning circle goals

• Guidance, signposting, and support for appropriate digital education upskilling and accreditation.
• Creating and facilitating opportunities for teaching technology innovation to design inclusive learning experiences.
• Dissemination about technologies and their use for learning between Learning Circle members and other members of the university.
• Recommendations made to the Pro VC Education regarding possible future investments to be made, and wider dissemination across the University.

Intended outcomes/outputs to achieve by the end of the 2025/26 academic year.

• Facilitating new opportunities for teaching technology innovations.

• A conference for dissemination of teaching technology innovations and projects completed across the University.

• An online toolkit designed to support staff in planning and developing user testing.

• The Learning Circle will have produced an initial list of technologies explored by its members.

• CMALT accreditation pilot completed with guidance and plans for future rollout.

Previous projects.

The learning circle had the following funded projects in 2024/25:

1. Pilot Project to Capture Digital Education Capabilities in UK Universities.
2. AI Horizons: Developing a Digital Skills Pathway through the Warwick Award.
3. Digital Development Pathways for Staff

Current members of this Learning Circle include:

• Atisha Ghosh
• Devon Allcoat (Co-lead)
• Abigail Ball
• Sara Hattersley
• Karen Jackson
• Robert Liu-Preece
• Emil Kostadinov
• Jath Pathmanathan
• Natasha Nakariakova
• Kim Watts
• Caroline Elliott
• Edwina Jones
• Gill Frigerio
• Ewout Buckens
• Robert O’Toole
• Paul Ottey
• Juliana Cunha Carneiro Pinto
• Martyn Parker
• Saran Shantikumar

  (Co-lead)

• Charlotte Stevens

  (Co-lead)

• Paul Trimmer
• Poonam Pedley
• Chris Evans
• Anthony Olomolaiye
• Greg Watson
• Isleide Zissimos