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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