Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily
Four Aspects of Harmony
Disney signs deal with OpenAI to allow Sora to generate AI videos featuring its characters
Thoughts on Hinton
elder-plinius - Overview
Trust Requires Change Requires Trust
Folks have asked me how to find and build community
52 things I learned in 2025
The End of Debugging
Autonomy and Interdependence
Why RSS matters
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Twitter.new
Fake Education Might Be the Best Teacher
Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies
Comment
Effective harnesses for long-running agents
They Want to Become Trillionaires – by Destroying the Internet
The newsroom's AI has an agenda
Exclusive: AI critics funded AI coverage at top newsrooms
Taking Back Control: Why Digital Sovereignty Matters | Ian O'Byrne
They have to be able to talk about us without us
Creating a Github-Based Webpage with AI
Solving the Puzzle of Cheating in Video Games
Take Back Your Feed: A Simple Guide to Getting Started With RSS (Even If Tech Intimidates You)
The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI
5 tech predictions for 2026 and beyond, according to Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
L’IA au cœur du nouvel écosystème de communication
The Testing Effect: Why Retrieval Practice is Your Most Powerful Learning Tool
An Issue...
A Critically Informed Conversation with Terry Anderson: Visions on the Next Generation of Online and Distance Education
Is the future of education outside universities?
Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge
Representational Realism and the Problem of Tacit Belief
4 ways you can 'role play' with AI
The end of pretend – AI and the case for universities of formation
The art of reimagining universities: a vision for higher education
Goodbye, ivory tower. Hello, inclusive communities
Massification and its Unacknowledged Trade-offs | HESA
If You Want Skilled Workers, Stop Treating Them Like They’re Disposable
Connectivism, Distributed Learning and Digital Innovation in the Amazon
Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
Who's Grading You on Coursera? The Shift from Human Peers to AI
Alchemy
How citizen archivists in South Asia confront the online marginalization of oral cultures and languages
From detection to development: how universities are ethically embedding AI-for-learning
When grades stop meaning anything
Introducing Nested Learning: A new ML paradigm for continual learning
Understanding Learning Strategy Use Through the Lens of Habit
How Big Tech is quietly colonizing education
Introducing Nano Banana Pro
Pastoral Landscapes Brim with Patterns in Luminous Paintings by David Brian Smith
Replicability and the humanities: the problem with universal measures of research quality
Exploring Joplin Note-Taking Tool
Anatomy of an AI agent knowledge base
A New Era Begins
The Degree That Never Ends
New Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) Hopes to Cut LLM Costs by Reducing Token Consumption
The existential struggle between being a 'we' and an 'us'
Job for 2027: Senior Director of Million-Dollar Regexes
From Shannon to Modern AI: A Complete Information Theory Guide for Machine Learning
Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web
Putting principles into practice: an ethical approach to GenAI
Data Visualization – Data Visualization with R
Physical AI
Elsevier launches LeapSpace: an AI-Assisted workspace to accelerate research and discovery
This $150 Robot Arm Is The Best Way to Start With Advanced Robotics
He got sued for sharing public YouTube videos; nightmare ended in settlement
The State of the Open Social Web
Sensing Ethics in Postdigital Future Classrooms - Postdigital Science and Education
The School in the Cloud project - Results, Status, and a Sustainable Model
Review and Validation of the Benchmarking of Technology-Enabled Learning
Google Antigravity
Citation Style Language
Beyond the Mic: Podcasting in a Social Foundations of Education Course
What does it really mean to serve a community today?
Life’s biggest moments are flukes, not fate
Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold
Beyond Authorship Vibes: Preserving Judgment and Trust in the Age of AI
Building resilient social media
Profit, Education, and Student Grants | HESA
Inside Yale’s Quiet Reckoning with AI
We're Building the Wrong Intelligence
Dialogue at Scale: AI, Soft Skills, and the Future of Assessment
3D revivification in dinosaur museum
AI country artist hits #1 on Billboard digital songs chart
Generalization bias in large language model summarization of scientific research
AI was supposed to fix the job search. It's breaking it instead
Marketplaces in the Age of AI
Aligning Educational Stakeholder Perceptions of Learner Profiling with Explainable AI
Professional Development Opportunities in Educational Technology and Education For November 17, 2025 to May 31, 2026, Edition #54
Update #33: The lawsuit is over!
Researchers surprised that with AI, toxicity is harder to fake than intelligence
SIMA 2: A Gemini-Powered AI Agent for 3D Virtual Worlds
Disney CEO Bob Iger Says Disney+ Will Allow AI-Generated Content As Studio Embraces Controversial Technology
Chalk & Change 2: Nick Gibb - the minister as expert
The Weight of the Captain’s Chair
Adopting AI across an institution is a pressing leadership challenge
Discord and Discourse - Better Together
The educational robot inspiring students of all ages
Maybe 'Know Thyself' Was Never Advice but a Warning
65daysofstatic’s new No Man’s Sky album searches for humanity in an AI-filled world
The SoTL Guide: (Re)Orienting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
After trying Valve's new VR headset, I'm ready to ditch cables for good
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
Rethink: What is creativity without craft?
Google tool makes AI cheating easier, teachers say
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms
AI and the Future of Learning
Data Engineering in the Age of AI
-D'Arcy Norman, PhD
A Guide to AI in Schools: Perspectives for the Perplexed
This is Why Cycling is Dangerous in America
WikiDebates: Advancing Structured Dialogue Across the Wikimedia Movement
An argument for Classic Source Criticism in the Age of Misinformation
Build Your Own Database
The Microchip Era Is About to End
The 450 Movement. I do peer review and I want you to pay...
The Infrastructure Of Planetary Sapience
Welcome to Mo-Me
Training and Educational Data Analytics: An Overview
Breaking Up With Edtech Is Hard to Do
FBI Tries to Unmask Owner of Infamous Archive.is Site
Alliance for Decision Education
Decentralised communities
Projects - Storytelling
The Global Edge Platform that truly Hops
LLM vs RAG vs Agent Workbook
The Fediverse Six Months From Now
AI firm wins high court ruling after photo agency’s copyright claim
Statement on Educational Technologies and AI Agents
The EPOCH of AI: Human-Machine Complementarities at Work
Improving Gruepr: a tool for grouping students – Teaching Matters
We’re Losing the Thread on AI in Education
Chrome Expands Autofill to Passports, Licenses, and VINs
Network Weaving as 'Light Work:' Take 2
A Clingy Friend: AI and the First Public
Giving voice to women students: designing oral assessments for inclusion and validity
Advanced Learning Analytics Methods
Open Science Network
This label will put your journal's research integrity in black and white
'Keep Android Open' Campaign Pushes Back On Google's Sideloading Restrictions
The Metal Box: Building My Proxmox Homelab
Here are the inaugural winners of the Canadian Student Journalism Awards
Things You Maybe Don’t Know about Conferences
Introducing CommonsDB Explorer
What is transdisciplinary research?
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Authentic Universities: Effective university identities in times of transition
A teacher in Ecuador found teens already doubt what they see online — and taught them how to turn that into power
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments
10th Period: Ohio Charter Schools Prove Private Sector Less Efficient than Public Sector
AI Applications: A Taxonomy
Federated Open Learning Resources
The Epistemology of Logic
The Architectural Shift: AI Agents Become Execution Engines While Backends Retreat to Governance
Elon Musk's Grokipedia launches with AI-cloned pages from Wikipedia
We need private AI before it's too late
Colors and Numbers
China's Unitree builds course for students to learn how to train, understand robot dogs
One third of all journalists are creator journalists, new report finds
Agentic AI and Security
Revealing Key Dimensions Underlying the Recognition of Dynamic Human Actions
Optimizing Formative Assessment with Learning Analytics
AI for English speaking practice: A study of effectiveness and engagement among Vietnamese university learners
Receipts: a brief list of prominent articles proclaiming the death of the web
Primitivist Theories of Truth
Boundaries in Formal Education and the Role of Technology in Breaking Them
The community of inquiry framework and learning analytics: A systematic review of previous research
An Educators’ Guide to Multimodal Learning and Generative AI
Universities (still) suck at learning analytics
Populism fast and slow
Coursera Is Just Not That Into You
A new core curriculum: seven comprehensive video modules from the Wikimedia Foundation for beginners
Is Misinformation More Open? A Study of robots.txt Gatekeeping on the Web
To Explain or to Predict?
Ground-level Impacts of the Changing Landscape of Higher Education
Meet Mico, Microsoft’s AI version of Clippy
HP ZGX Nano AI Station - AI PC for Business
Jacob McDowell, Externalism without Essentialism: Hilary Putnam on Natural Kind Terms - PhilArchive
OpenStax to NotebookLM Workflow
ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
The Human Fabric of Knowledge Architecture
News Integrity in AI Assistants
Wittgenstein's Teaching Trials, and Cavell's Romantic Child
There is no God Tier video model
Ten Principles of AI Agent Economics
So There!
AI threatens universities’ ability to bolster democracy
Digital Identity Market to Exceed $80B by 2030
An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now
Vector Database by Hand
Dynamic Equilibrium Theory for Ethical AI: Balancing Epistemic Uncertainty, Human Autonomy, and Social Equity in High-Stakes Fluctuational Decision Systems
Write Code That Runs in the Browser, or Write Code the Browser Runs
After the Gold Rush: What Degrowth Can Teach Us About Micro‑Credentials
Open education principles: Resisting the metrics of AI black boxes
On the essay in a time of GenAI
The Original Sin of Digital Media Was the Belief That Digital Journalists Were Part of the Tech Business
Big Tech is paying millions to train teachers on AI, in a push to bring chatbots into classrooms
Beyond the Human: Democratic Education Through the Ethics of Care and Carriance
What's Lost When NY Times Guest Essays Are Uninformed
Diamond Dreams, Unequal Realities: The Promise and Pitfalls of No-APC Open Access
Investigating Teachers’ Changing Perceptions Towards MOOCs Through the Technology Acceptance Model
The Paradox of Analytic Philosophy’s Success
Building Ethical, User-Aligned AI: What Nous Research Is Doing Differently
AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea
Building Trust and Rigor in Microcredentials: Synthesizing Standards, Taxonomy, and Frameworks
A systematic literature review of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) literacy in schools
Global education and technology: insights into transnational student and staff digital experiences
In Education, The Genre is the Content.
Web Publishers Should Block AI Bots. Here's Why & How.
An Introduction to Geospatial Thinking and Open Source GIS
Is AI Conscious? A Primer on the Myths and Confusions Driving the Debate
Wiley Launches Interoperable Platform to Power Scientific Discovery in World's Leading AI Technologies
WhyTorch
The future of the CLO: Leading in a world of merged work and learning
The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 3
The world’s largest library of lies has good news about fake news
Learning Networks and the Age of AI with Stephen Downes
Why I Built a Homelab (and Why You Might Want To
AI tutors coming to California Community Colleges
Agentic Context Engineering: Evolving Contexts for Self-Improving Language Models
What Large Language Models Teach Us About 'Human Knowledge'
To Understand AI, Watch How It Evolves
How accessible is the educational research literature?
The Future of Higher Education: The Age of Sponsored Knowing, and What This Means to Higher Education
TeachLM: Post-Training LLMs for Education Using Authentic Learning Data
HHMI Enacts “Immediate Access To Research” Policy For Its Scientists
Content Credentials
Google’s latest AI model uses a web browser like you do
What Can We Learn From Anthology's Demise?
A cartoonist's review of AI art
Virtual Microscope
Open Heritage Statement
Do AI Reasoning Models Abstract and Reason Like Humans?
From MOOCs to Mindsets: Stephen Downes on Connection, Openness, and the Future of Scalable Learning - LEARN Podcasts
Evaluating educational technology: Consolidating across multiple impact indicators and rating systems
Dapr - Distributed Application Runtime
View of Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies
The Future is NOT Self-Hosted
Why AI-assisted Literature Reviews Currently Fall Short
2025 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report - Data and Analytics Edition
On Social Media as a Public Servant
The speech wars come for Wikipedia
Why are human networks important? Part one
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pulse to proactively write you morning briefs
Colleges And Schools Must Block And Ban Agentic AI Browsers Now. Here’s Why.
Credential Schemas Standards
Everything Feels Empty Now