New blog post by Elaine Chase for the #CoMOOCs project. Reporting on a webinar for the Understanding Education in Conflict and Crisis Settings MOOC, and reflecting on the implications of #USAID withdrawal. reflect.ucl.ac.uk/learning-and...

Open access collaboratively co-authored, 111-page guide to the doctoral supervision process, packed with insights and advice for both doctoral students, and new and experienced doctoral supervisors. #ResearchCulture #ResearcherDevelopment #PhDSupervision supervisingphds.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/t...

The GO-GN Guide to Doctoral Supervision: Insights and Strategies for Success

By Rob Farrow, senior researcher at the Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University (UK) and Co-Director of GO-G, and Michele Jacobsen, Professor in the Learning Sciences at the Univer…

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📢 #CfP "Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality" - Online Conference Join us 23-24 June 2025 Submit by 28 Feb 2025 Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, @sesamescholar.bsky.social, @ethanz.bsky.social, Ramesh Srinivasan hub.redico.eu/call-for-pap...

Audrey Watters always nails it. In the face of all the horrors she points to, the comment from @dougbelshaw.com provides a glimmer of hope: "I do remain hopeful for open source LLMs trained on publicly-auditable data".

John Warner@biblioracle.bsky.social · 2y ago

Every @audreywatters.bsky.social newsletter fills me with a mix of alarm and righteous anger and that combination is - oddly enough - hugely energizing when it comes to digging in and fighting for the values that I think help humans thrive. 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-coup/?re...

"Now is the time... to imagine a world in which government supports health and education for all, where we all live without fear, knowing that our interconnected lives are equally valuable."

Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social · 2y ago

“An exhilarated hatred now parades as freedom, while the freedoms for which many of us have struggled for decades are distorted and trammeled as morally repressive ‘wokeism’.” Judith Butler on the first few weeks of Trumpism

#ElonMusk is working to shut down the foreign aid agency #USAid, the world’s largest single donor. It disbursed in 2023 $72bn of assistance on everything from women’s health in conflict zones to access to clean water, Aids treatments etc www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #DonaldTrump #Republicans

Elon Musk says USAid is ‘beyond repair’ and he is working to shut it down

Billionaire says in social media talk that Donald Trump agrees the world’s largest single donor should be shut down

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Great conference theme this year: Compassion, collegiality and communities in higher education: Challenging the Discourse.

Richard Budd@ddubdrahcir.bsky.social · 2y ago

SRHE 2025 conference call open - deadline 15th of May. It's in Nottingham again! srhe.ac.uk/internationa...

Free, facilitated course for teachers in conflict and crisis settings, 3-21 Feb, with @eileenkennedy01.bsky.social @thinksitthrough.bsky.social #refugees #displacement #mooc reflect.ucl.ac.uk/learning-and... Please share widely!

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

Call for Chapters: Rethinking Education and Agency in the Age of Human-Generative AI Interaction (The call is open until February 15, 2025) www.igi-global.com/publish/call...

This co-designed MOOC aims to support teachers working in contexts of conflict, crisis and #displacement. Co-designed with teachers in refugee camps and migrants learning centres on the Thai Myanmar border.

Allison Littlejohn@allisonl.bsky.social · 2y ago

This free online course is offered by @uclknowledgelab @IOE_London colleagues Diana Laurillard & @eileenkennedy01.bsky.social Co-designed with teachers from Thai-Myanmar, building on work with teachers in Lebanon, it features a chatbot supporting reflection www.futurelearn.com/courses/unde...

This free online course is offered by @uclknowledgelab @IOE_London colleagues Diana Laurillard & @eileenkennedy01.bsky.social Co-designed with teachers from Thai-Myanmar, building on work with teachers in Lebanon, it features a chatbot supporting reflection www.futurelearn.com/courses/unde...

For those educators just joining Bluesky, I have a List containing a growing collection of educators in higher education. May help you identify interesting [eople to extend your new network. Follow the link to access bsky.app/profile/did:... #LTHEchat

I am delighted to share that the CoMOOC, Understanding Education in Conflict & Crisis settings by UCL + Inclusive Ed Foundation Thailand, is now on FutureLearn! We will be announcing a facilitated run soon! #codesign #MOOC #refugees #teachereducation www.futurelearn.com/courses/unde...

I’m making a comeback by explaining why I stopped blogging patthomson.net/2025/01/01/p...

Patter is back

Patter has been missing in action since the end of August. A bad case of blogging burn-out you might ask? Well, yes that’s true. I have been writing this patter thing for twelve years and I did hav…

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Next Wednesday 8/1/25 it’s the 1st all BlueSky Tweetchat on aiming for more authentic feedback in HE led by @kaysambell.bsky.social and me! If you’ve never tried it, the format is simple: one blogpost in advance, 6 questions at intervals, 1hour, lots of global participation&fun! Join us at 8pm GMT

LTHEchat@lthechat.bsky.social · 2y ago

After over 10 years, this Wednesday at 8pm GMT #LTHEchat will take place in Twitter X for the final time. We look forward to bringing our weekly #LTHEchat here to Bluesky in the new year. Our incoming organising team for 2025 are already preparing for this!

Some really good news for the start of 2025 from #Shropshire

Shropshire Wildlife Trust@shropshirewildlife.bsky.social · 2y ago

You did it! Thanks to your incredibly generous support we have raised enough money to restore Betchcott Hill! Thanks to you we can: 🌱 restore acid #grassland and upland #heath 🐣 create habitat for #moorland birds 🥾 ensure #accessibility for all while protecting vital habitat from disruption

For those worried about fake papers polluting systematic reviews, I've an article up today on efforts to make it easier to spot untrustworthy work. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Giant study finds untrustworthy trials pollute gold-standard medical reviews

Two-year collaboration aims to create tools to help counter the tide of flawed research.

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Richard Van Noorden@richvn.bsky.social · 2y ago

A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...

This book by @drmarkcarrigan.bsky.social comes with its own experimental custom GPT companion (available for a short period) - nice idea!

Folks based in UK HEIs - you might want to rally your colleagues to contribute to this consultation: www.gov.uk/government/c...

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence

This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.

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Thought-provoking blog post from Maha (as always) on accountability in the use of GenAI - I especially like the references to anticipatory and remedial accountability. And the "micro-survey" is still open. It challenged me to think about my own accountability practices.

Maha Bali, PhD@mahabali.bsky.social · 2y ago

There is a tiny survey linked inside this brief blogpost of mine on the LSE HE Blog, if you're done grading and have a minute, could you respond to it please? When it comes to AI, is transparency enough? (hint, hint) blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

Helpful social justice theorisation of #refugee integration in terms of the #capabilities approach

IRIS@irisbirmingham.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Thi is my attempt to introduce a new framing to the study and development of refugee integration policy that responds to the criticism of the term", says Jenny Phillimore (@profjennyp.bsky.social) introducing her choice. academic.oup.com/rsq/article/...

✨ A year-in-review thread from IRIS ✨ We asked our researchers to pick just one publication from 2024 and share why it stands out for them. Here's what they chose and why! 🧵 #migration #refugees #socialsciences #diversity #research

Am loving listening to the audio of HE for Good! The intro by @catherinecronin.bsky.social and @czernie.bsky.social highlights what a tour de force it is - such wide-ranging authors, genres and topics. The common themes are care for the entire HE community, hope and imagination for a better future.

Catherine Cronin@catherinecronin.bsky.social · 2y ago

The audio version of Higher Education for Good is now available. To access the audio, please visit the book web page www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116..., scroll down to any chapter, and click Download (for MP3 version). #HE4Good @czernie.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social

Another great piece by Audrey Waters - this one pointing out how the uncritical use of AI in education results in surveillance and mindless speed being disguised as care.

We stand with many others urging the Home Office to keep processing asylum claims by people from Syria. Through our services, we're hearing first-hand how fearful the community is that they may be asked to leave. Many have already waited over six months, unable to work or rebuild their lives.

Thanks Bonni for sharing this fab, extensive list of podcasts on wide-ranging topics (including #edtech and #highered) from Bryan Alexander! (When does he sleep?)

Bonni Stachowiak@bonni208.bsky.social · 2y ago

I always consider it such an honor to have @tihe.bsky.social mentioned in one of @edufuturist.bsky.social's "podcasts I'm listening to" posts. I'm in such good company here + am blown away that he's able to listen to this many podcasts across such diverse topics. bryanalexander.org/podcasts/pod...

Excellent news. Do follow @davidolusoga.bsky.social

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 2y ago

Ooh @davidolusoga.bsky.social has started posting here and is a must follow. If you somehow missed his lunch with @stephenkb.bsky.social a couple of months back it is well worth catching up with on.ft.com/4dMGOyN

Apropos the reopening of Notre Dame, here's a fantastic thread about medieval cathedrals.

Caroline Fiennes@carolinefiennes.bsky.social · 2y ago

Notre Dame in Paris re-opens this wkd. I'm a cathedral nerd. Here are some things that you might not notice about it – just from that one photo. THREAD. 1. You can see straight down the nave to the apse. No medieval English cathedral has that.

Great set of strategies outlined by engineering academics, including "Work with instructional design teams to include Problem-Based Learning (PBL), Challenge-Based Learning (CBL), and Problem-Oriented Learning (POL) to adopt AI."

Willem van Valkenburg@wfvanvalkenburg.bsky.social · 2y ago

AI-Enriched Curricula: The Future of Engineering Education observatory.tec.mx/edu-news/ai-...