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
(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 […]
Read moreConference Preview: OER24
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 […]
Read moreAugmented Academics?
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 […]
Read moreA 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 moreEducation, 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 […]
Read moreWhat 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 […]
Read moreAn 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 […]
Read moreThinking 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.
Read moreLeveraging 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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