A Response!
A response to “Universities like ‘deer in headlights’ on AI, says edX founder” Published on 27th September 2023 https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/edx-founder-universities-deer-headlights-ai The metaphor “deer in the […]
Read moreDon’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus (with apologies to Mo Willems)
My children are now in their 20s so it’s been a long time since I had the pleasure of reading aloud to them. Back […]
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Education, AI, Climate change, Social Media, and Politics
I don’t have a good or clever title for this blog post, and as I sat down to write it I didn’t know where it […]
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What went wrong with Generative AI in Education: Reflections from 2033
Donna Lanclos sits down with Lawrie Phipps as he retires from higher education, and looks back over the last 10 years and the impact of […]
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An Offering
Lawrie Phipps and Donna Lanclos We’d like to acknowledge and thank Autumm Caines in the preparation of this post. We offer the following text not […]
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Thinking Differently about Digital Leadership
Digital Leadership as we approach it does not live within a specific institutional role, but rather is a concept, an idea emerging from the work of ensuring that people with a responsibility to lead any part of an institution, or curricula, or team, had the ability and knowledge to leverage the benefits of digital. Those same people also need to be capable of recognizing when using digital might be a barrier, to change, to practice, and to people engaging.
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Leveraging Change: A Pre Print
When anyone is asked to change what they are doing, it’s often the case that their first reaction is , “Why?” In our experience, people often then jump to “What is going to change?” Between the Why and the What, resistance can start to build.
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AIngry
Written by Donna Lanclos and Lawrie Phipps I yelled at my friend today about my frustrations with the discourse in higher education about “AI” (MACHINE […]
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Trust, Innovation, and Risk 2022
Written by Lawrie Phipps and Donna Lanclos If innovation is defined as trying something unusual or new, change can be simply trying something different. Lanclos […]
Read moreFrom 2016 to 2021 and how much has changed? Four Still Provocative Things, Apparently
The interview that is the core of this piece took place in 2016 in the run up to Jisc’s Digifest that year, and I am […]
Read moreBeing Human Online in a Time of Crisis
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” Troilus and Cressida co-authored with Peter Bryant There’s been worry, anger, fear, snark, genuine excitement and […]
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