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Once and for all - What Clawdbot Actually Is and Why It's Not Claude Code
Article Series: AI-Assisted Development: Real World Patterns, Pitfalls, and Production Readiness
The Impact of AI on Work in Higher Education
MyNotes: You Don’t Have to Keep Up with AI
Building Europe’s Public AI Stack
Higher education and AI in late 2025/early 2026
Dr. Lahana’s Multimodal Makerspace: A Reality Check for the “Laptops Broke Kids” Narrative
Teaching Learners for the Long Tail of Time
Unreasonable Effectiveness
Unexpected Link Back Trail to David Warlick
LLM Cultural Censorship Is Corporate Risk Management
Vimeo Lays Off 'Most' of Its Staff, Allegedly Includes 'the Entire Video Team'
Fighting AI Hallucinations One Citation at a Time: Introducing the LLM Citation Verifier
Triangulating the lifelong learner: neuroliberalism and the OECD’s focus on meta-cognition, affect, and wellbeing
Public NotebookLM with AI Policies, Guidelines and Frameworks
Qwen3-TTS Family is Now Open Sourced: Voice Design, Clone, and Generation
Language models resemble more than just language cortex, show neuroscientists
I use the 'unicorn prompt' with every chatbot - it instantly fixes the worst AI problem
Digital tools are not the problem; it’s their governance
Social Network Analysis of AI Agent Organizations
Claude's new constitution
How I use Generative AI with my students
Introduction to Open Educational Practices
Collaborating with Khan Academy to build the best AI tools for learners
It’s Already Here!
Leveraging media for impact: A Guide for Early Career Researchers
Using video: from passive viewing to purposeful engagement
CommonsDB Feasibility Study part 2: from Design to Deployment
What I Learned After Trying Out Every Exoskeleton at CES
No - Duh: Countless Teachers Like Me Have Long Known the AI Risks Brookings Just "Discovered"
Generative AI: product safety standards
GenAI in Higher Education
Constructing AI in education
Scapegoating and Careerism in Universities: Signals of System Failure?
What we miss about teaching critical and creative thinking
View of A Framework for Ethical Online Course Development with Universal Design for Learning
Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply
Spot the Difference
Curatorial Silence and Its Impact on Pedagogy
Digest #183: The Importance of Belonging for Student Success
Anthropic Economic Index: new building blocks for understanding AI use
The Refraction Principle: How AI Bends (But Doesn't Break) Human Purpose
The AI Ad Gap Widens
Guardex.ai
A new direction for students in an AI world: Prosper, prepare, protect
Royal Roads University: A Canadian University Without Tenure or Senate
Debunking the AI food delivery hoax that fooled Reddit
The Mythology Of Conscious AI
The Problem with AI "Artists"
Algorithms and authors: How generative AI is transforming news production
HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager
The Human Advantage: Nine Skills We Can’t Afford to Lose in an AI-Powered World
Be Redemptive
Don’t let AI change what it means to teach
Why Learner Wallets Will Fail (And How to Make Sure They Don’t)
Canadian framework for microcredential meta-data (Technical Specification)
CA AI Periodic Table Explained: Mapping LLMs, RAG & AI Agent Frameworks
Levers for Living the Portrait of a Graduate (a 7-part series)
In The Beginning There Was Slop
AI and the Next Economy
How to know if that job will crush your soul
Working Towards Ethical Engagement of GenAI in Higher Education: Insights and Recommendations for Post-Secondary Educators – BCcampus
The University, the Chatbot, and a Call for a New Mission for Higher Education
Frankie Egan: Brains Blog precis of Deflating Mental Representation — The Brains Blog
Evolving Education: A Manifesto to Reimagine Higher Education
I saw someone gatekeep their "SEO Blog System" behind a paywall… so I built my own (and it’s better)
Under the Hood: Universal Commerce Protocol
Killed, Not Starved: Deliberate Neglect of the OERF a Failure of Institutional Duty to Open Education
Tamagotchigogy: A Pedagogical Framework of Care, Feedback, and Responsiveness | Brainstorm in Progress
Gmail is entering the Gemini era
X Is a Power Problem, Not a Platform Problem
How to Choose AI Video Tools That Actually Support Learning
Pandoc
Cambridge college to target elite private schools for student recruitment
Funders "should mandate change in science publishing"
Date is out, Temporal is in
Claude Code and What Comes Next
AGI isn't "coming" - it's already reshaping how young people think
Ungrading 2.0: Labor, Agency, and the Research Archive
The Thinking Class
The Case for Social AI in Education
Public trust in statistics requires three kinds of openness
Zines in Higher Education with Meredith Tummeti
Diversity Strenghtens Discovery
Short videos. Your community. Your rules.
We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'
Open funder metadata is essential for true research transparency
Will the LMS Finally Deliver?
I was wrong. Universities don't fear AI. They fear self-reflection
How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026? - Anil Dash
"Any research must be accessible to others. There's no point to research that can't be used"
The Crisis: Students Need to Learn Different Stuff and I don't think Most Educators understand that
AI Village
Taking an Internet Walk
Stephen's Retirement FAQ
The Small-Tent Path to Disaster
Exploring the value of values: Does higher education need to abandon a 'skills transferability' focus in favour of 'values transferability'?
Politics meets protocols in Berlin
Mastodon creator shares what went wrong with Threads and ponders the future of the fediverse
First Draft Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content
3 philosophical debates from the 20th century that neuroscience is reshaping
In Praise of Assistance
Reflecting on What a university is and can do
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Return to Me: Teaching, AI, and the Longing to Connect
Universities and the Future of Civilisation. A talk by Iain McGilchrist
2025: The year in LLMs
Computer Science and Civil Courage
Responsibility for Perception
Mapping Learning Where Work Actually Happens: The LITFOW Matrix
What promised to liberate us instead helps to control us
How We Lost Communication to Entertainment
This ad-free Facebook app made my feed enjoyable again for the first time in years
The HTML Elements Time Forgot
Why I care about running a private, resilient blog
AI and higher education in 2025
Salience and associations
None of your beeswax!
What Agency Means in the Era of Automation
ChatGPT and the Educational AI Chatter: Full of Bullshit or Trying to Tell Us Something?
From Student Voices to Course Design Choices: What Student Panels Reveal About Engagement
"Hello, World!"... revisited
2026 Pedagogical Resolutions
Weaning Students from the Lecture Into Active Learning
Six Practices to Make Philosophy Part of Your Home
The year we stop pretending the industry has changed
A Few of My Favorite Things
Can Scientific Communities Benefit from a Diversity of Standards?
The Great Contraction: On the Dignity of Constraint
How the Grinch Stole Metrics
Stop Treating Note-Taking Like Learning
Landslide; a ghost story
On ethical AI principles
What happens when intelligence outgrows its creators
I turned a hotel key card into a one-tap shortcut for ChatGPT - and now I use it every day
My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions
The Clickbait Audit
How AI coding agents work - and what to remember if you use them
My Online Education World 1980-2020: A chronology presenting the history of online eduction
The Taxonomy of Strangers
If AI Can't Stop a Student From Cheating, How Can It Ever Be Safe?
Backing up Spotify
Why AI-driven education must replace an outdated learning model
Just a moment...
OpenAI’s New AI Foundations Course Promises 'Job-Ready' Skills and Credential
Three Ways to Organize Gen AI GPTs and Projects
Ai is Everything That is Not Needed in Education
The Report of the LMS's Death is an Exaggeration
Reflections on the closure of the OER Foundation and the implications for OER policies
Why Authoritarian Innovation Has Limits: A Recursive Emergence Perspective | Isaac+Mao
Can neuroscientists decode memories solely from a map of synaptic connections?
Facebook tests £9.99 monthly subscription for sharing more than two links
Protecting online safe spaces
Teaching Quality
Coursera and Udemy enter a merger agreement valued at around $2.5B
If You Want People in the Office, Build One Worth Coming To
Visiting OpenAI: Reflections from a Philosopher’s Desk
If You've Never Broken It, You Don't Really Know It
You should never build a CMS
An Opportunity to Build the Ownership Economy
CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse
Women and Leadership in Distance Education in Canada
AI-assisted coding: 10 simple rules to maintain scientific rigor
I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5 hours
ParadAIse L0st?
OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI
Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks
Share some Gratitude for the OER Foundation, For it is No More
Terminating OER Foundation Services
How Google Maps quietly allocates survival across London’s restaurants - and how I built a dashboard to see through it
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