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Wolves at the Door

July 16, 2025 admin

The Myth of the EdTech Ecosystem We who work in the education sector often encounter the metaphor of “the edtech ecosystem.” This metaphor is used […]

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Beige by Design

January 14, 2025January 16, 2025 admin

For humanity’s sake, let us be minds, Not cogs in machines, Not hands scrolling, Allowing algorithms as proxies for our thoughts. With passive queries and […]

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Emerging models disrupting education – Open education opportunity or threat?

April 22, 2024April 22, 2024 admin

An #OER24 Gasta, expanded. A guest post from Emma Beatson, Jisc The world is in crisis. Countless issues intersect and conflict. Many current systems aren’t […]

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Two old dinosaurs square off and prepare to do battle. The scene is a stop motion shot from a film called the Valley of Gwangi.

OER24 in the Real Capital of Ireland

April 3, 2024April 3, 2024 admin 1 comment

After a long buildup to OER24, participating in planning, paper reviewing, logistics from afar, it happened! The TEL team at MTU and the ALT conference […]

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Donna Lanclos, Richard Watermeyer and Lawrie Phipps sitting at a table

And then there were questions

March 20, 2024 admin

By Donna Lanclos, Lawrie Phipps, and Richard Watermeyer. We have already posted our opening keynote for RIDE 2024. After we gave our talk, conference participants […]

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What is, what could be, what should be

March 19, 2024March 19, 2024 admin 1 comment

(Thanks to Professor Stephen Brown for inspiring the post title.) Neoliberalism, Collegiality, and Authenticity in a time of Generative AI tools By Richard Watermeyer, Lawrie […]

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Conference Preview: OER24

January 15, 2024January 15, 2024 admin

One of the things I’m looking forward to this March is the Open Education “OER24” conference which takes place in Cork, Ireland. Now is a […]

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Augmented Academics?

October 1, 2023October 1, 2023 admin 1 comment

Petar Jandrić explains the post-digital condition as not just an extension of the digital but representing a shift in our engagement with digital technologies. Jandrić […]

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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 […]