NC educators—free CEUs, on your time. DTOD makes professional learning flexible with self-paced courses available through NCEES. Complete your coursework and CEUs are automatically added to your NCDPI transcript. 💻 #NCVPS #CEUs #NCEd #ProfessionalLearning #WeAreNCVPS
Dr. Enoch Park
@epri.bsky.social
EdTech Policies, Resources & Information. Online Learning. Assoc. Graduate Faculty Learning Design & Technology. EDUCAUSE Ambassador. Quality Matters.
💔It’s a Heartache and Total Eclipse of the Heart. RIP Bonnie Tyler. youtu.be/lcOxhH8N3Bo?...
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (Turn Around) (Official Video)
YouTube video by bonnietylerVEVO
youtu.be
Bonnie Tyler, Eighties Pop Powerhouse Behind ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart,’ Dead at 75 Read: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
📢 Join NCVPS at #NCAPCS2026! Learn how to expand course access, solve scheduling challenges, and support student success with NCVPS. Join us in Raleigh, July 19–21—and connect with our team! #NCVPS #CharterSchools #EdLeaders #WeAreNCVPS
FIFA President Infantino gave Mexican President Sheinbaum ticket number 00001 to the World Cup opening match. Sheinbaum gave it to Yolett Cuaquehua, a 21-year-old Indigenous woman from Veracruz. Sheinbaum will watch the game in the Zocalo, the public central square in Mexico City, with the people.
June 23 will be here before you know it—there's still time to register! ☀️ NCVPS Summer Session helps students catch up, get ahead, and stay on track for the new school year. #NCVPS #SummerSession #PlanAhead #StudentSuccess #WeAreNCVPS
💔 Rest in peace. “Always keep your dignity and be true to yourself.”
Breaking News: Marjane Satrapi, the Iranian-French author whose graphic novel series “Persepolis” illuminated the struggles of Iranians during the Islamic Revolution, died at 56.
L’artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, autrice de la bande dessinée « Persepolis », est morte à l’âge de 56 ans
L’artiste franco-iranienne Marjane Satrapi, autrice de la bande dessinée « Persepolis », est morte à l’âge de 56 ans
Sa BD autobiographique, « Persepolis » (L’Association), l’a révélée au monde entier. Elle est « morte de tristesse un peu plus d’un an après le décès de Mattias Ripa, son mari et l’amour de sa vie », ont écrit ses proches dans un communiqué.
lemonde.fr
Please join us May 19 at 7pm for "The Brave Classroom: Embedding SEL into World Language Teaching". All are invited! If you haven't been able to register yet, there is still time: ncvps.org/digital-tran...
Hey it's the book's birthday! Happy 1st Birthday to our book @alexhanna.bsky.social :) The AI Con has been out in the world for a whole year. 🎂🎂🎂 thecon.ai
THE AI CON
How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
thecon.ai
This is your friendly reminder as you try to pull everything off Canvas that many students actually need access to electronic copies of your readings so they can use text-to-speech software, and making students ask for what they need creates an unnecessary barrier to success.
🎉 Congratulations to our 2026 ELA of the Year, Beverly “Bev” Logan! 🎉 Bev empowers students to stay focused, accountable, and confident in virtual learning. Her strong communication and advocacy make a difference every day. #ELAoftheYear #NCVPS #WCHS #WeAreNCVPS
NCVPS In Real Time (IRT) brings live, whole-class instruction to middle school students across NC 🍎💻 Designed to support schools when a certified teacher isn’t available, IRT keeps learning on track with high-quality, real-time instruction. #NCVPS #WeAreNCVPS
NCVPS is hiring Korean I & II teachers! These are contracted positions (no benefits). Learn more and apply on our Careers page: ncvps.org/careers
Big accessibility news: looks like the federal government just gave colleges, universities, and others a 1-2 year extension for meeting next week's big ADA deadline. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-07663.pdf HT @educause.bsky.social
ABC Learning design book is out! We hope you find it useful. Happy downloading! @uclpress.bsky.social @leohavemann.bsky.social @clive-young.bsky.social @timneumann.bsky.social @eileenkennedy01.bsky.social @jostroud.bsky.social @jus-saying.bsky.social @jourde.bsky.social
Announcing a new publication with my co-authors, Mary Ellen Dello Stritto & Lidija Krebs-Lazendic. Our critical review highlights a significant gap in the current evidence and calls for more robust and methodologically sound research on synchronous instructor presence. doi.org/10.1108/QRDE...
A critical review of research on synchronous instructor presence in online learning: Elusive evidence and mixed results
Purpose. While research has shown a positive correlation between instructor presence and student learning outcomes, the role of instructor synchronous activities in online courses remains underexplore...
doi.org
🚀 Leading online learning at your campus? Join me May 7 for a free webinar on building an #OSCQR implementation plan to improve online course design + accessibility. Template, tools & best practices included! 🕛 12–1:30PM ET 🔗 web.cvent.com/event/b54c0d... #HigherEd #OnlineLearning #OnlineTeaching
Some good news for this Friday. This astonishing group of people have spun up ERICA, the ERIC archive. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the... #GLAMS #Skybrarians #AcademicSky
ERICA to the Rescue!
ERIC, the research repository of the Department of Education, was defunded this week. The ERIC catalog lists over 2 million education-related publications. More than 500,000 of these publications are ...
datarescueproject.org
Do you want the opportunity to have impact in the quality of online education on a large scale? We value impact, collaboration, flexibility, diversity, community, and continuous improvement. Come work with us! sunysystem.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta... #EduSky #onlineeducation #onlinelearning
sunysystem.interviewexchange.com
New open access book on co-creation in HE, with a range of case studies. Check out chapter by Emily McIntosh & Helen May on co-creation & #studentsuccess - #teachlearnsky #Highered #HEstudentlearning #studentpartnerships link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Co-Creation for Academic Enhancement in Higher Education
This open access book focuses on ongoing practices around co-creation at universities, exploring their impact on academic and non-academic activities.
link.springer.com
🚨 New from ARTICLE 19: How can the EU safeguard human rights in the age of General-Purpose AI? 🤖 Transparency, accountability, and fundamental freedoms must guide AI regulation. 📝 Read our last blog here: www.article19.org/resources/eu... #HumanRights #AI #TechPolicy
EU: Safeguarding human rights in the Code of Practice on General-Purpose AI - ARTICLE 19
ARTICLE 19 is calling for the EU % Code of Practice on General Purpose AI to be grounded in international human rights laws and standards.
article19.org
🚨"With both college students and elementary-school children, the research indicates quote convincingly that the strategy of giving tests is not necessarily productive if the objective is long-term learning."
"Stunningly, however, those who had learned expecting to be tested had forgotten much more. Their superior rote memorization was no longer in evidence a few days later. Evidently, they memorized the material for the test, and when the test was over, they pulled the plug and let it drain out."
"Just the Recipe" is so handy! Tonight I’m using it to prep broccoli salad and a pumpkin dessert for tomorrow. Paste a recipe link, and it cleans up all the clutter for a nice, easy-to-read recipe. www.justtherecipe.com
Just the Recipe: Skip the clutter on any recipe site
A free tool to get just the ingredients and instructions for any recipe page. No life story, popups, or other clutter.
justtherecipe.com
I’m reminded of this post:
OpenAI's Whisper is another case study in Colonisation
Whisper, a speech recognition model trained on 680,000 hours of audio taken from the web, demonstrates the problems with Big Tech and data theft.
blog.papareo.nz
this is a green flag for openai & meta to formally be arbitrators of our languages & mass exploit the population (& researcher that've poured their souls into low resource languages),all to throw unreliable AI that has so far proven to result in more harm than benefit www.reuters.com/technology/a...
We are thinking of starting a quarterly newsletter for my lab (Digital Learning Lab). I'd love to see examples of other lab newsletters. Thanks!
12 days of AI launches next week. Always interesting from Chris and colleagues at UAL. totallyrewired.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/1...
12 Days of AI 2024 – new version out NOW!
The 12 Days of AI is a series of asynchronous activities and discussion prompts designed to help you consider ethics and uses of AI, explore a range of AI tools, and connect with other participants…
totallyrewired.wordpress.com
I got NotebookLM to play a role-playing game by giving it a 308 page manual Pretty good application of the rules, the character creation is very good (quoting accurately from 100 pages in) with small hallucinations, and the adventure is pretty solid! I can only upload a 60 second sample to bluesky
🔦 ChatGPT + Peer Review: A new paper published by Nature Portfolio finds that up to 17% of peer reviews are now written by AI. #AI #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity #Science #ScholComm www.nature.com/articles/d41...
ChatGPT is transforming peer review — how can we use it responsibly?
At major computer-science publication venues, up to 17% of the peer reviews are now written by artificial intelligence. We need guidelines before things get out of hand.
nature.com