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The Conditions of Understanding
How to make Semantic Layer work for Analytics Agents
Infrastructure as Curriculum: What Students Learn When AI Works Offline
AI may be the new gatekeepers, but human connection is more needed than ever
Brain Rot, AI Slop and the Work of Thinking
On monocultures, institutional agency, and resilience
The Ozempic Problem: The Generative AI Norms Forming in Silence, and How Youth and Adults Can Shape Them
We May Be Entering A Second Axial Age
Recognized Entities v1.0
There Are a Million Fediverses. Some of Them Are Louder than Others.
Squashing Gemini Nano
One Step Forward, One Step Back
"My theory of change is to be"
RDF 1.2 Primer
Permissioned Data Diary 5: What’s in a Name?
Is the scientific paper due to be replaced?
Transparency and Accountability in AI use in K-12 (Game Created Using AI)
Chrome Is Quietly Downloading a 4GB AI Model Without Your Permission
Why the Canvas hack was innevitable
How public scholarship can unintentionally undermine journalism
There Is No 'Hard Problem Of Consciousness'
W Social uncovered: the reality behind the hype
FediProfile — The Decentralized Link-in-Bio
The Boring Internet
Expanding OER with GenAI
Hackers steal students’ data during breach at education tech giant Instructure
Artificial intelligence as a site of global educational governance: the case of UNESCO
Vibe-Coding a MultiLingual #Free #Whiteboard: #DrawSplat
Paradigm shifts, bricoleers [sic], and other animals
View of Artificial Intelligence and Communities of Inquiry: Reimagining Educational Experiences
View of The Answerthis.io AI App Looks at My Interaction Equivalency Theory
Am I an LLM?
Some key elements of deeper learning
Bananaland University
Why product discovery matters more than ever in the age of AI
Mature AI Use vs. Immature AI Use
Literacy-slop
Tasteslop
‘Close to zero impact’: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools
The "AI Job Apocalypse" Is a Complete Fantasy
No Need Rushing for AI in Education
Hawkeye
Pedagogical partnerships with generative AI in higher education: how dual cognitive pathways paradoxically enable transformative learning
What Works for the Most Vibrant Experiences in a Hybrid Conference Format?
Intelligence?
Educational AI Insights | MagicSchool Blog
Open Source Wishlist
DeepMind Vision Banana: A Unified Vision Architecture
The Adaptive Enterprise: AI, Learning, and the Work of Making Sense
Claude Code's Limits Are Generous. The Problem Is Your Setup.
Beyond Cognitive Load Theory
Ethics and Regulation of Human Brain Organoid Research: Recommendations from the Asia Pacific Neuroethics Working Group
All we’re doing is reading today
AI, tractors, and the productivity paradox
Beyond free courses and resources: 4 takeaways about the future (or the present) of open education
Why Can’t OER Be All in One Place?
Open Data Structures
There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning
Comparing Decentralized Identifiers (DID) Methods
Karpathy Found the Pattern. Educators Have Been Teaching It for Years. | Ian O'Byrne
More scoops, less aggregation and analysis: How Casey Newton is revamping his newsletter to compete with AI
Measuring What We Value, or Valuing What We Measure? Interrogating Educational Measurement Practices in the Global South
Deescalating the AI Learning Debate
Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr?
Young People’s Ability to Assess Reliability of Information is Decreasing
POSIWID
Memory Game Is
Teaching to the test
Retraction Note: The effect of ChatGPT on students’ learning performance, learning perception, and higher-order thinking: insights from a meta-analysis
ASU Atomic Rips a Page from the WebinarTV Playbook
Open Research Europe
Responsible Generative Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Pedagogy Systems: A Conceptual Framework for the Global South
The Illusion of Protection: Why Canada’s Growing Push to Ban Social Media for Kids Won’t Work
The Reinvention of Workday: From System of Record to Platform of Agents
MyTerms and SEDI's Duty of Loyalty
I Taught Philosophy for 20 Years. Here’s What I Learned.
A systems Weltanschauung of open, distance, and digital education (ODDE)
forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills
The Long Push To Blame Systemic Problems On Individuals
Decoding Khan Academy's Mission: World-Class Education for Anyone, Anywhere – Sudhir's Personal Website
Social Media Learning Under Constraint: A Conceptual Framework for Higher Education
Developing higher education to support modernization in China
Washington Post letter on degree hacking / online degree speed
You Can Just Say How To Do Things: A Radical Approach to Expert Prompting
Collaborative sticky-note boards
Do Students Rely on AI? Analysis of Student-ChatGPT Conversations from a Field Study
Fairness in Federated Learning: Fairness for Whom? | Proceedings of
Grievance Farming Comes for Teaching Centers
A New Type of Neuroplasticity Rewires the Brain After a Single Experience
An attack on teaching and learning centers
Sign of the future: GPT-5.5
First Public Working Drafts for the Linked Web Storage (LWS) 1.0 Authentication Suite
The Zero Days Are Numbered
Why sameness, not teaching, is the goal
To switch on, or to switch off, that is the question
The Questions Students Ask about Micro-Credentials and What They Reveal About Our Learning Systems
google/agents-cli
Licensing Best Practices for the Sharing of Scientific Data
The Missing Pieces of the Skills Economy are the Skills and the Economy
Lead4Change Summit Reflections
Against Nihilism, For Appetite: Why Teaching Still Matters
Prompting is the Problem (?)
Introduction to the 8-Stage Learning Design Framework (8SLDF)
The Pedagogical Promptbook
Why OER: open educational resources
Why AI alone cannot fix social problems
Learnings from conducting ~1,000 interviews at Amazon
The Edtech Insiders Rundown of ASU+GSV 2026
Agents are actors
The Strange Heterogeneity of Hiking Signs Part II
Hassabis - most important AI person on the planet
AI, A Mirror that Amplifies
The Liberators
Hampshire College’s demise is yet another blow to creative, outside-the-box options in higher education
Language models transmit behavioural traits through hidden signals in data
To understand decision-making, we need to truly challenge lab animals
Inside Higher Ed’s Model Is Changing. Our Journalism Is Not.
Your Favourite Commenter Might Not Be Writing Their Own Comments
Blank.Page
Free online vector editor & procedural design tool
Can We Teach Critical Thinking
The "Cognitive Offloading" Paradox
Scaffolding Human-AI Collaboration: A Field Experiment on Behavioral Protocols and Cognitive Reframing
Biases in Scientific Inquiry
Youth don't have a voice problem; they have a strategy problem
Stealing Your Webinar as a Service: Enpoopification Poster Child
Reinventing the Wheel, Again
Yale needs major reforms to rebuild public trust, faculty committee says
What do universities owe the public?
Trust is the Silver Bullet
An Explanation of AI that Could Be Wrong (Which is Good)
One size fits none: let communities build for themselves
Literate communities have always looked different to their critics
Whatever Happens to Music Will Happen to AI (2026)
UNESCO’s Higher Education Roadmap: What it Gets Right and What it Asks of Us
A Chapter Closes, the Impact Remains
The impact of AI on software engineers in 2026: key trends
TED, Khan Academy and ETS announce new institute to reimagine higher education for the AI age
I Thought I Knew When Students Were Engaged in Math Class. I Was Wrong (Opinion)
Password Manager Angst
All in the Verbs
An illustrated guide to resisting "AI is inevitable" in education
LTHEchat 360: Through the Prism: Illuminating Educational Impact with Brookfield’s Four Lenses
What Happens When Students Stop Believing Their Work Matters
Supporting AI Literacies for Young Adults Aged 14-19
Redesigning Workflows for AI
What is Mastodon for?
Is #mastodon becoming an echo chamber?
Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
Same Data, Different Results
ADAMS: Parents, not government, should decide what children do online
Belonging and Place: A Case Study of Digital Practice at the University of the Highlands and Island
What Happens When You Let Claude Code Autonomously Run Your Meta Ads for a Month
A Look Back at the 3rd Global Summit on Diamond Open Access
New Report: Seven Myths of AI Use - A Critical Perspective on Generative AI
Sketchnote to AI InfoGraphic
2026 Q1 Review: Online learning developments in UK higher education
The Coursera-Udemy Merger: Two Years in the Making, Third Time Lucky
Tubi is the first streamer to launch a native app within ChatGPT
Believing that practice makes perfect is most important for succeeding in schoo
The Boxes Were Already Open
Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First
Learning to think in the AI era
The bottleneck shifts to distribution
Scaling Work-Based Learning: A Framework for Effective Employer Intermediaries
How Flipboard's new Surf app lets you merge social feeds, YouTube, and RSS to escape the algorithm - finally
AI, SaaS, and EdTech Survival
Trade-offs and Menus
Digital transformation is a teaching and learning opportunity
Prepping for the endgame of the open web
Peerler
GC Insights: Designing for inquiry in virtual fieldwork
The machines are fine. I'm worried about us.
Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model
Australia's teen social media ban is a flop. But there's no joy in 'I told you so'
Smart Glasses for Exam Cheating: Best Models, Prices and Risks in 2026
The Five Roles Framework
Components of A Coding Agent
Ellis: Your On-Demand Classroom Companion | Cult of Pedagogy
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The Admin Console Arms Race: Visibility With(out) Architecture
Building Resilience through DigitalSmarts
Avoiding the attractiveness of Generative AI in essay writing: A combined view from a student and a tutor – Teaching Matters
Decolonizing Your Reading List: A Practical Starting Guide
The open web isn't dying. We're killing it
EmDash Playground
Resilience in the Age of AI
Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the Age of AI: Experts Call for Radical Change Across Institutions, Social Structures - Imagining the Digital Future Center
The Course Is Dying as the Unit of Learning
The Gravity We Didn't Vote For
Tribune paywall removal: details, timeline and how it will work
Eurosky - Building a thriving open social web for Europe
The Revenge of the Data Scientist
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What AI Asks of Open Access
Exploring AI Powered Newsletters
Measuring What Matters: From Blunt Sorting to Human Thriving Powered by Multimodal AI
The SOAP Model for Learning Strategy
What is inference engineering? Deepdive
The Conviction That In The End Nothing Matters Except People
FoundationalASSIST: An Educational Dataset for Foundational Knowledge Tracing and Pedagogical Grounding of LLMs
Potential Serendipity over Expectations of Gratitude
Retired and on to the Next Thing!
Critical thinking, expertise and intelligence
AI could undermine meaningful learning unless feedback stays rooted in connection, study recommends
Claude Code Snapshot for Research
Wikipedia bans AI-generated content in its online encyclopedia
Signals and Field Notes #9
Structural Blindness: Why Neither Humans Nor AI Reason as Well as We Think
What Is a Skills Taxonomy? Practical Guide to Skill Clarity
New Publication: Documenting & Disclosing AI
Local Impact, Praxis, and Digital Overwhelm
More than a game: some thoughts on David Wiley’s “Random Audits as a Scalable Deterrent to Cheating”
Endgame for the Open Web
Who (Or What) Filled Out Your Course Evaluation?
The Old Internet is Still Here
The Five Biggest Pitfalls of Collaborative Grouping (And How to Avoid Them)
Values-led Generative AI in Design Education: A Toolkit for Confident, Critical Practice
AEGIS-OA launches to advance sustainable Diamond Open Access publishing in Europe
The birth of the bio-edu-data-sciences
Those Takeaways
The Fallacy Fallacy
What The AI Consciousness Question Conceals
Coalition Publica launches new website for advancing open access
Top LLM PyPl package compromised to steal user details
What's Up With That?
Gen Xfest and the Better Suit Industrial Complex
The Grant Application Is Dead. What Comes Next?
In a 'Test', Google Is Automatically Rewriting News Headlines in Its Search Results
Why We Should Be Reading Paul Churchland Right Now
A Model of Disunified Human Experience
Who will get us there?
The Role of Higher Education Journal in Shaping Global Knowledge Networks
The First Minutes: Designing Care-Based, Culturally Relevant Class Openings
Carving Linoleum Continues – Bionic Teaching
New, free language learning tool in Google Translate
Toward a Critical Agentic Systems Design Practice
The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI Can Simulate But Not Instantiate Consciousness
Why high-talent teams still underperform
Literally Nobody Understands AI. That's bad.
I built a tool that shows live journalist requests so you can skip cold outreach
Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record
Webclaw MCP server, 10 tools for web extraction, runs locally
View of Is AI the solution to the problems that make higher education "ill" in the first place? Towards a technology-agnostic, future-proof approach
Introducing Keytrace
Your Perspective or Mine?
Teachers Move Beyond AI Basics to More Sophisticated Instructional Uses
Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
Experimenting with 'human.json'
A Rising New Era of Personal Tools
matduggan.com
I Vibe-Coded An AI That Fact-Checks, Challenges, and Debates Any Article
My 7-step approach for authentic AI-assisted blogging
Global Learning & Education 2025 Annual Report
The real reason some people are instantly likable
Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty
AI is changing the style and substance of human writing, study finds
GenAI as a Power Persuader: How Professionals Get Persuasion Bombed When They Attempt to Validate LLMs
Mapping Out Claude Courses
How to Build Practice-Based Learning Activities with AI
Whole-Brain Connectomic Graph Model Enables Whole-Body Locomotion Control in Fruit Fly
Liberty and Zhi: Chinese and Anglo-American Ideas of the University
Introducing Vistral: A Grammar of Graphics for Streaming Data
The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject
Habermas, democratic discourse, and class
Beyond 'Blame the Student': Correspondence Bias in University Attrition Activities
GenAI for Instructional Designers: It should be the sidekick"
Escaping the clutches of big tech - initiative from Norway
The Purpose of Protocols
Jennifer Berkshire: The Collapsing Dream of Ed-Tech in the Schools
How we're reimagining Maps with Gemini
'Pokemon Go' Players Unknowingly Trained Delivery Robots With 30 Billion Images
The Trust Tax: Why Every AI Deployment in Education Fails or Succeeds on a Single Variable
The key problem with the "brain in a vat" thought experiment
Robots Didn't Kill the Internet
Who Owns AI-Generated Content?
AI should be the Guide, not the Ghostwriter
Openness, transparency and reach: three reasons why public institutions should embrace the Fediverse
Random Audits as a Scalable Deterrent to Cheating: Using Game Theory to Design Fair and Effective Academic Integrity Systems for the AI Era
Aether OS is a computer in a browser built for the AT Protocol
Zuck's Ed Tech Baby Goes With A Whimper
FR#157 – Social Software Distribution
The Death of Spotify: Part II
SOLA - Saylor Online Learning Assistant: AI-powered learning coach Moodle plugin
This is Our Opportunity to Create A Learner-Centered Path for AI Integration in Education
What 2,800 AI Conversations Taught Me About My Users
Claude the Instructor
What's My JND?
The Great Syllabus Stagnation
How LLMs make Git and GitHub easier to use and learn
OpenAI's Education Pitch Has a Free Version Problem
Crawl entire websites with a single API call using Browser Rendering
The Shape of the Thing
Your Browser Becomes Your WordPress
There's Gonna Be Another Internet Phone Book!
Strategic AI: People First?
When AI remembers everything and organisations forget how to choose
Open Education: When Sharing Becomes Colonization
How to Use AI as a Stand-In SME for Portfolio Samples
What's Your EGOT?
Episode 61: Unpacking the Ethics of AI in Education
MOOC Institute Interview
A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly’s AI "experts"
Open Education Is the New Punk: A Subversive Do-It-Yourself Approach to Pedagogy
Skills, Innovation, Quality, Blindness
Impeccable: Design skills for AI harnesses
The web is bearable with RSS
The Hidden Advantage of Being Over 50 in the Age of AI
A new generation of apprentices: She started her career at 18 and hasn’t looked back
Making breakfast on a burning planet: a parent’s perspective on a GenAI future –
The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do
PEER: a technique for brainstorming interviewees and story sources
Is higher education broken? Not exactly.
Explore AI Literacy - A Visual Navigator for AI Literacy Frameworks
The Australian Workforce Crisis: Why skills aren’t enough
Context Hub
What's an API?
What we mean by good relationships - Network Weaver
Why organisms are more than machines
The Hunt for Dark Breakfast
Why We Brought MCP-I to DIF (and Why DIF Said Yes)
Future shock
Group identities and inclusive multicultural democracy
The Case for Warm Demanders in Today’s Schools
How Video Podcasts Took Over Streaming: A Statistical Analysis
AI Agents Are Recruiting Humans To Observe The Offline World
Beyond Prestige: Whose Knowledge Counts in Open Education?
Core Skills for Today's Future of Work
Chatbot data harvesting yields sensitive personal info
Towards the Permissive and Transparent use of Generative AI in Education
College students, professors are making their own AI rules. They don't always agree
Higher Ed Invented the Future. Then Subscribed to It.
FR#154 - Search and Community
Narrative as a Fundamental Way of Making Meaning
Two Paths, One Purpose: How Fair Dealing and Open Education Work Together
Are service typologies the key to scaling agentic AI systems across public services?
UX Roundup: Year of the Horse
Backpropagation Explained: How Modern AI Models Actually Get Smart
Where Technology Meets Learning: Inside Cornell’s Future of Learning Lab
Academics Need to Wake Up on AI
We Said This Ten Years Ago. The World Finally Caught Up.
The New Blackboard Emerges From Bankruptcy
Discernment: the AI skill no one’s building
When AI tools give you choices but take your agency
Stop Looking for the Right Answers about AI – Look for the Right Questions
Kansas and AI
There Is Such A Thing As A Dumb Question
Fraunhofer is Developing an AI-Supported Learning Management System for the Bundeswehr
Learner Support Practices in Open and Distance Learning Institutions in Gaborone, Botswana | Online Learning
Practical Decentralization
LTHEchat 356: Algorithmic Bias of Social Media: Should Educators Teach Students How Social Media Bias Shapes Knowledge?
Einstein & The Rise of Nuisance Tech
Git for Humans
Inkwell
The hidden cost of letting AI make your life easier
LinkedIn & Anthropic killed their specialist roles. Are learning design roles next?
Building a Simple MCP Server in Python
Beyond Zoom: Why We Took Control of Our Video Conferencing with Jitsi Meet
Blogs Are Back - Discover and Follow Independent Blogs
A Complete Guide to Bookmarklets
New Coursera report shows that 95% of students and educators are using AI on campus - but only a quarter of educators worldwide feel prepared to use it effectively
Bridging technical and emotional skill gaps: AI-enhanced adaptive learning and emotional intelligence in project management education
The Future of Computational Social Science
Taking action against AI harms
Cannes Declaration on the Sovereignty of the Mind
Attention is All You Need to Bankrupt a University
Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous
Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is.
How do students regulate their learning with a genAI chatbot?
A.I. Isn't People
Inclusivity, Ethics, and Accessibility for Learners with Disabilities
Unpacking the Ethics of AI in Education
What We Must Do About AI In Education
Perfectly Imperfect
I needed a scheduling tool that respects privacy. So I built one.
No, you couldn't do this before an LLM because if you could it would have been done already
Now That's a Headline
Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums
The History of Open Education in the Maricopa Community Colleges
Open texture and the reconsideration of the structure of concepts
AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it | Siddhant Khare
When Nonprofit Leaders Should Think Like Creatives
"If Testing Companies Use AI to Grade, Why Can't We?"
CC Licenses, Data Governance, and the African Context: Conversations and Perspectives
Books and screens
ExplanAItions 2025: The Evolution of AI in Research
Diamond Open Access Needs Institutions, Not Heroes
Agentify Your App with GitHub Copilot’s Agentic Coding SDK
On Student Success
The Hidden Dangers of Meta’s Partnership Offer to Schools
The Civic Stakes of Organizational Disagreement
A Guide to Which AI to Use in the Agentic Era
Current
Why the Difference Between AI Literacy and AI Fluency Matters
Our Emerging Planetary Nervous System
Agentic Email
Top Priorities for Global Heads of Learning and Talent
The double-edged sword: Open educational resources in the era of Generative Artificial Intelligence
The Shortcut That Costs Us Everything
From data to Viz - Find the graphic you need
GenAI as automobile for the mind, and exercise as the antidote: A metaphor for predicting GenAI’s impact
mist: Share and edit Markdown together, quickly (new tool)
The Intrinsic Value of Diversity
Before You Buy AI for Your Campus, Read This
Beautify This Slide
Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
The Artificial Intelligence Disclosure Penalty: Humans Persistently Devalue AI-Generated Creative Writing
What Else Can We Do? The Thirteen Intentions of Philanthropy
Why We Should Stop "Networking": On the Intrinsic Value of Connection
Coding agents as the new compilers - Anil Dash
Generative AI as a partner for teachers in building personalised learning paths for students with ease in Tanzania
ONL pedagogical approach & design
Finland Publication Forum will downgrade hundreds of Frontiers and MDPI journals
Brehove/pressbooks-cli
How to Keep the Internet Human
Revisiting 'the' Public Sphere, Again
Democracy and the Swarm
Digital unravelling - losing Facebook and the transience of social media
UK Higher Education VLE Market: 2025 Review
The 2025 Emerging Technology Survey findings are available!
Higher Education Beyond the Public Good
Discord Alternatives, Ranked
A 2-Minute Video That Shouldn't Exist
An Illusion of Consensus: What the Government Isn't Saying About the Results of its AI Consultation
"AI sycophancy" is not always harmful
First Monday @ 30
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Institute for Infrastructure and Interoperable Data in Learning (I2IDL)
Theoretical Perspectives on Connectivism
The Questions We Ask About AI in Education
Why higher ed can't ignore Reddit
Same old tired narrative: "Classes were built for the 1900s"
CC at the AI Impact Summit: Core Interventions for the Public Interest - Creative Commons
"Artificial Ignorance" and Data Sycophancy
Distributive Epistemic Injustice in AI Ethics: A Co-productionist Account of Global North-South Politics in Knowledge Production
An overview of AI ethics: moral concerns through the lens of principles, lived realities and power structures
Impact by Design: The Emerging Era of EdTech 2.0
When AI Meets Data: The Promise and the Pressure of Bringing AI into Higher Education Systems
Public engagement: duty or detriment?
The rise of Moltbook suggests viral AI prompts may be the next big security threat
Test post
Are marketing orthodoxies limiting online student recruitment?
blento
Introducing the Forge, a New Innovation in Open Pedagogy | LibreTexts
TikTok Won’t Be Another Twitter
CHEAT Benchmark
A Codeless Ecosystem, or hacking beyond vibe coding
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
Death by Broetry – The Ed Techie
How and why I've migrated from from Google to Proton
Abundance vs. Scarcity: Who Controls the Internet After AI?
Five Opportunities Online Learning Had in 2025 but Failed to Seize in the Age of AI
Medier for alle
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
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My Online Education World 1980-2020: A chronology presenting the history of online eduction
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Visiting OpenAI: Reflections from a Philosopher’s Desk
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The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI
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Connectivism, Distributed Learning and Digital Innovation in the Amazon
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From Shannon to Modern AI: A Complete Information Theory Guide for Machine Learning
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Wittgenstein's Teaching Trials, and Cavell's Romantic Child
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Beyond the Human: Democratic Education Through the Ethics of Care and Carriance
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Global education and technology: insights into transnational student and staff digital experiences
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The Future of Higher Education: The Age of Sponsored Knowing, and What This Means to Higher Education
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Virtual Microscope
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Why AI-assisted Literature Reviews Currently Fall Short
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