At #EDEN2025, @sukainaw.bsky.social & @stephenmarquard.bsky.social unpacked GenAI as a pedagogical actor in higher ed. Their full presentation is now up on our LinkedIn page: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #AIinEducation #UCT #TeachingInnovation

Huge congrats to Dr Glenda Cox & the DOT4D team + Health Sciences colleagues! 🏆 Their poster won Best Poster at the Advancing Medical Education in Africa conference in Rwanda. Brilliant work on open education! 🎓📚 #UCT #DOT4D

CILT Director, @sukainaw.bsky.social, opened the symposium with a warm welcome. The student panel followed—highlighting how AI is reshaping learning, assessment expectations, and academic integrity from the student perspective. #AIinEducation #StudentVoices #UCT #SU

Great thread of @helenbeetham.bsky.social keynote at Education After the Algorithm symposium at Dublin City University

Bonnie Stewart@bonstewart.bsky.social · 2y ago

opening keynote for Education After the Algorithm at Dublin City University is @helenbeetham.bsky.social, starting us off by examining the algorithm

I loved tuning into Helen Beetham's keynote at DCU's Education after the Algorithm conference this morning. #learningrewilded #sketchnote #ai

closing keynote for Education After the Algorithm - @edtechie.bsky.social teaching us the algorithm (kinda) of metaphors, replete with warnings

Inspiring start to the symposium day - what a pleasure to hear Helen Beetham on education after the algorithm

Published version, here: van Rooij, I., Guest, O., et al. Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science. Comput Brain Behav 7, 616–636 (2024). doi.org/10.1007/s421...

Reclaiming AI as a Theoretical Tool for Cognitive Science - Computational Brain & Behavior

The idea that human cognition is, or can be understood as, a form of computation is a useful conceptual tool for cognitive science. It was a foundational assumption during the birth of cognitive scien...

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Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚨Our paper `Reclaiming AI as a theoretical tool for cognitive science' is now forthcoming in the journal Computational Brain & Behaviour. (Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...) Below a thread summary 🧵1/n #metatheory #AGI #AIhype #cogsci #theoreticalpsych #criticalAIliteracy

Hello to all our new Bluesky followers 👋 This is the account for the Centre for Technology Enhanced Learning at Lancaster University. We will be posting about news from the Centre and its members, and events hosted by the Centre as well as others, on topics related to TEL.

This week we welcomed Prof. Eva Cendon, Dr Anita Mörth, and Prof. Mpine Makoe for insightful discussions on the future of higher education. From open textbooks to north-south collaborations, we explored innovative ways to tackle HE challenges. How do you see open ed shaping the future of learning?

Challenging Traditional Power Structures in Higher Education 📚🎓. How can we create more inclusive and equitable learning environments in higher education? A study by the DOT4D team in CILT — Bianca Masuku, A/Prof. Glenda Cox, and Michelle Willmers. Read the full article www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/14...

Elevating Student Voice and Levelling Traditional Power Hierarchies Through Open Textbook Co-Creation: What Do Students Say?

There are calls for the democratisation of higher education in line with the principles of social justice. Collaboration with students offers the potential for creating a more inclusive higher educati...

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🚀This week, the Assessment Studio workshops brought together UCT colleagues from Nursing, Information Systems, School of Languages, and Astronomy. They explored innovative and meaningful assessment practices. Participants engaged deeply in rethinking how we assess learning in a changing world. 🎓

Welcome @uct-cilt.bsky.social

Centre for Innovation in Learning & Teaching@uct-cilt.bsky.social · 2y ago

We’ve landed on Bluesky! 🌍🚀 As UCT’s Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, we’re dedicated to shaping the future of higher education. Follow us for insights on learning design, digital education, and higher ed innovation. Let’s reimagine learning together!

I mean there of course but the headline is what few get beyond . Michael Webb’s post on deepseek is very fair nationalcentreforai.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/01/2...

DeepSeek - Initial Thoughts and Advice. - Artificial intelligence

Another day, another new and slightly unexpected AI development. This time, it’s DeepSeek. It’s been hard to miss the news, but in case you have, here’s a quick summary: Chinese company DeepSeek has s...

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Join our webinar on Friday 31st Jan - we'll be talking about our latest CoMOOC, co-designed by UCL and InEd in Thailand/ Myanmar: Understanding Education in Conflict and Crisis Settings. reflect.ucl.ac.uk/learning-and... @eileenkennedy01.bsky.social @thinksitthrough.bsky.social

“With a false allegation comes concerns about forfeiting merit and academic scholarships and losing visas for international students. It’s not atypical for cases to drag on for weeks or months. In extreme situations, students have received letters accusing them of plagiarism after graduation…”

She lost her scholarship over an AI allegation — and it impacted her mental health

With generative AI use on the rise, students say they’re terrified of falsely being accused. It's harming their mental health. Here's what to do.

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When the edtech venture capital industry makes forecasts about the future of education, it doesn't matter if they're right - but what they do to make those futures come true, foreseeing big paydays if so Short thread on our new edtech VC forecasting paper ⬇️ doi.org/10.1080/1743...

Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 2y ago

Digital futures of education are often defined by the edtech investment industry in terms of market value forecasts made with predictive technologies Our new paper on edtech venture capital just out for a forthcoming special issue on assets and rents in education www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Okay, I finally get the NotebookLM podcast craze. It really can be an appealing way to start thinking about documents. I gave it two OER textbooks and asked for the "podcasters" to reflect on the difference in their personalities. Not bad. notebooklm.google.com/notebook/648...

Join us on 10 Dec for an online event to explore and develop Future Leadership skills. We’ve shaken up the format of our previous Winter Summits to create a highly interactive, collaborative event with opportunities for knowledge sharing and networking throughout - https://buff.ly/4faWCN3 #altc

I've shared this article so many times since its publication and IMO you should read it too.

The Spook Who Sat by the Ring Doorbell@hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2y ago

For new folks who are interested, read more here.

The next @n-tutorr.bsky.social Masterclass, on Gen AI in HE, will be on 21 November. Speakers include @sharplem.bsky.social @hazelfarrell.bsky.social & @gastatom.bsky.social Open to all, but registration is absolutely necessary. www.eventbrite.ie/e/generative...

Strategies for Finding and Evaluating Open Educational Resource (#OER) Materials – With and Without Generative AI Excited to lead this free webinar on Friday at 10:30 Pacific time! All are welcome. asccc-oeri.org/2024/10/20/e...

Speaking of the utterly broken Twitter search (RIP), here are instructions for searching on Bluesky. It requires a little more from you, but once you know the prefixes, I've found the search works just fine. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Tips and Tricks for Bluesky Search - Bluesky

Let’s dive into all the tips and tricks for advanced Bluesky search!

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Submissions already coming in for this symposium that seeks to bring people to think together and to think otherwise so as to plot critical and creative post-AI educational futures. Please spread the word and come join us: www.hackthiscourse.com/symposium/#/

The Alan Turing Institute has a great new online learning portal that features some of the leading names in machine learning, social data science and social applications of A.I. www.turing.ac.uk/courses

Courses

Free and open learning resources on Data Science and AI topics.

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Very interesting editorial by Peter Goodyear: „An education in educational technology“ in AJET ajet.org.au/index.php/AJ...

In our next AI in Higher Education we welcome Mary Jacob from Aberystwyth University who’ll be considering Developing Resilience in an ever changing AI landscape. More info and to book: learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk/ai-in-educat...

My new paper is out! Digital Education Utopia - open access in Learning, Media and Technology here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Utopia as method, and as the education of desire @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @eddiged.bsyk.social

I really really hope to see lots of you at the Future Trends Forum this Thursday, 10/5 at 2pm ET. We'll be chatting about the post-Twitter #HigherEd. shindig.com/login/event/...