Jonathan Jackson

Profile

Jonathan Jackson is a Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering and Management with a background in industry and has Chartered IT Professional (CITP) status from BCS. He has programme leadership experience for the Digital and Technology Solutions undergraduate and postgraduate degree apprenticeship programmes at QMUL and his previous institution. Jonathan’s scholarly interests include Digitally Enhanced Teaching and Learning, Large Language Models (LLMs) in education, and authentic assessment through industry collaboration.

Teaching

IOT454u Stakeholder Management in Digital Projects

IOT453u Quality Driven Development

Research

Research Interests:

Jonathan’s research focus is the ethical and pedagogically beneficial use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in Education, specifically Large Language Models (LLMs) for the development of higher-order thinking skills and co-creation without compromising academic integrity or learners’ agency.

Publications

Jackson, J. (2025). Higher order prompting: Applying Bloom’s revised taxonomy to the use of large language models in higher education. Studies in Technology Enhanced Learning, 4(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.21428/8c225f6e.0915c17e

Jackson, J., Day, N. and Maher, K. (2024). Bringing the Real World Into the Classroom Through Team-Based Live Brief Projects. In Approaches to Work-Based Learning in Higher Education (pp. 81-105). Routledge.

Jackson, J., Buzasi, Z., Syrett, K. and Trenyik, N. (2024). The power of external stakeholders to enhance social and emotional learning in Higher Education. The Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change, 10(2). Available at https://www.journals.studentengagement.org.uk/index.php/studentchangeagents/article/view/1261

McAllister, N., Tavener-Smith, T. and Jackson, J. (2024) Leveraging an mLearning Prototype to Teach Medical Terminology to Nursing Students: A Linguistic Approach, Teaching and Learning in Nursing. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.teln.2024.08.006

Rochon, R., Jackson, J. and Knight, J. (2023). Mobile Technology for Professional Development and Wellbeing: The Reflecta Project. In INTED2023 Proceedings (pp. 8074-8078). IATED.