Educational Design, Artificial Intelligence, Educational Consulting

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Education Consulting.

• Curriculum design and mapping
• Assessment design, academic integrity risk analysis and mitigation
• Lesson planning
• Educational resource/material design
• Online learning environment design and development (Moodle, Canvas, and bespoke solutions).

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In-person workshops and sessions are charged at a slightly different rate and include preparation and post-delivery time. Don’t hesitate to ask me for more information.

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Artificial Intelligence

These are projects that involve:

• Development of prompts and prompting strategies
• Training
• Sourcing hardware and software for running local LLMs, installation and set up
• Creating AI agents/GPT (custom instructions, sourcing and otherwise checking the currency of resources that go into a knowledge base) and testing
• Using existing AI tools to complete a project e.g., data analysis, content and thematic analyses etc., manipulating linguistic data. editing.

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Data analysis and synthesis can be undertaken with AI using offline tools, keeping your data safe and out of the hands of third parties. Don’t hesitate to ask for more information.

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FAQ

Billing

Educational Design Portfolio

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ABOUT

Dr Stafford Lumsden is an award-winning educational designer, consultant, and teacher who leverages expertise in applied linguistics, curriculum design, and Social Semiotics to develop innovative, research-informed solutions in legal and professional education contexts. Stafford is currently the in-house educational designer at the Sydney University Law School. He has provided educational design services to numerous public sector organisations such as the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, UNSW, University of Wollongong, and Macquarie University

Curriculum Vitae

Research

Bibliography

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WRITING

A collection of random comments and thoughts on various educational design topics.

Skills in Law

My thoughts on how you would create a completely skills-based undergraduate Law curriculum

Aotearoa Media Comms Scholars vs. Reality: Why Academics are Getting AI Wrong.

Why so many acacdemics are getting AI wrong

AI x Legal Research

A discussion of approaches, epistomologies and pedagogies using AI in legal research

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Thoughts my own, mention ≠ endorsemen

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PROJECTS

AGLC

A small web app to format and explain citations and references in AGLC format

Australian Law School Super GPT

A custom Generative Pre-trained Transformer developed on OpenAI’s GPT platform helping law students get to grips with law school, legal concepts, and writing. Over 25K conversations since 2024.

:diag_tml: TESOL Media Lab

The TESOL Media Lab is a collection of TESOL, ESL, and EALD resources for teachers

The Coat of Arms Project

AI image generation meets Scottish heraldry.

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