MsMoira Sarsfield

Use of GenAI to support education (2024–present)

• Use of chatbots to support students in developing feedback literacy

• AI support to resolve complex allocation problems

Multimode assessment feedback (2022–present)
• Students' and markers' experience of multimode assessment feedback, using a design-based research approach.

Supporting student reflection on assessment feedback (2021–present)
• Exploring students' and personal tutors' experience of using ePortfolios to support reflection on assessment feedback.
• Ongoing development and evaluation of the technological approach, in conjunction with student partners.

Learning technologists as third-space professionals (2019–present)
• Approaches for professional development of learning technologists in the higher education environment.
• Third-space professionals as educational researchers.

Learning analytics (2014–present)
• Original research in conjunction with John Conway on student use of video recordings to support learning.
• Ongoing research on the use of assessment data analytics to enhance conversations between students and personal tutors.

Team-based learning (TBL) (2012–present)
• Development and evaluation of new technological approaches to delivering TBL.
• Learning analytics support for colleagues undertaking research studies on TBL (e.g. Charalambous, Hodge and Ippolito, 2021).

Other research and scholarship activities

• Editor of Research in Learning Technology, the Association for Learning Technology journal (2026–present) 

• Regular peer reviewer for educational/edtech journals (2017–present) 
• Member of Association for Learning Technology Conference (ALT-C) organising committee (2016, 2019–22, 2026) 
• Peer reviewer for submissions to the Academic Practice and Technology (APT) conference (2020)