A few posts coming through my feeds recent circled this idea of using AI for summaries. In the L&D space I’ve seen this put forth as a potential/recommended use case for GenAI. First up was an article shared by Stephen Downes about someone who used a bunch of Adobe products to convert speech in a…
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Revisiting Open Education
It’s been a long time since I’ve sat down to really think or write about Open Education. I’m not even sure if I’ll post this, but perhaps writing will help. There was a time when I might have been characterized as an active advocate for Open Education, particularly in higher education. I sat on committees,…
My Top 10 Learning Tools for 2024
Jane Hart has surveyed and published the Top 100 Tools for Learning list for the last decade. Here are my current top tools, in no particular order. Feedly—RSS lives! This app has been a lifeline for following blogs and other publications since I abandoned that social media site whose name shall not be mentioned. I…
Delivering a University Web Strategy
The University Web Strategy (https://edin.ac/web-strategy-2018) identified a programme of activities, including the development of new web publishing tools or web publishing platform. “There is a fragmentation of technology, working methods and standards, which leads to uneven and, in some cases, broken user journeys.” – University Web Strategy The strategy stated that “it is important to recognise that technology is …
The thorny problem of authorship in a world of AI
I ran into this from a couple of different places over the past few days. First, over at Though Shrapnel. Doug introduces the quoted piece with a pretty provocative statement, The OLDaily newsletter included a couple of follow-up points, It’s an interesting and challenging thing to articulate. At what point should one attribute or cite…
hoarding behaviour online
Hoarding and storage of old stuff indefinitely is a challenging user behaviour for several of our platforms. Cloud storage costs the university money. Users may be unaware of the need to align with data protection rules and to reduce our impact on the environment, every little bit helps and we have a huge amount of …
Evaluating VLE change
The University of Edinburgh’s Learn Ultra upgrade aimed to enhance the virtual learning environment (VLE) to better support the diverse student body and align with other strategic initiatives and objectives. The Learn platform hosts over 6,000 courses with an average of 39,000 daily logins from students engaged in on-campus, online, and hybrid studies. The Learn …
Things I was wrong about pt2: The Death of the VLE
I smell another book from Martin Weller (this would actually be a great one to follow up 25 Years of Ed Tech). His latest blog series looks at What I Was Wrong About and the second post is all about the death of the VLE (or LMS on this side of the Atlantic). I sympathize with…
How much to educational developers actually teach?
Sarah Silverman is an educational developer from the USA that I have kept more of an eye on in recent years since some of her original critiques of CTLs came across my feed. This post explores the role and challenges faced by educational developers in the context of their teaching responsibilities. Sarah reflects on an…
Three Things Your Ed Degree (possibly) Got Wrong
The Effortful Educator normally publishes content around retrieval practice, memory processing, spaced practice, etc. But recently, they published an intentionally provocative talk they gave at their school, Three Things Your Ed Degree (possibly) Got Wrong. I couldn’t resist reading or thinking about my own experience during my undergraduate program. Let’s see how the program I completed…
Sources of Cognitive Load
Stephen Downes comes right out of the gate in response to this article from The Learning Scientists: Sources of Cognitive Load: I would love to pull up a chair in a conference plenary where that statement is made. Largely because of how my peers (probably me at many points in history) act around so-called myths…
Role of AI chatbots in education: systematic literature review
Labadze, L., Grigolia, M., & Machaidze, L. (2023). Role of AI chatbots in education: systematic literature review. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 20(1), 56. Overview The article systematically reviews the role of AI chatbots in education, analyzing their benefits, challenges, and potential limitations. It examines the integration of chatbots from the perspectives of students…