New Course | Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education
The Learning Technologies program at the University of Minnesota will be offering a new course this Spring. CI 5330 (Spring 2025) Special Topics in Learning Technologies: AI in Education Instructor Dr....
View ArticleEdtech deja vu
I enjoyed reading Marc Watkins recap of OpenAI’s education forum. Marc correctly points out that “There is excitement about what AI can do in the future, but not much time spent addressing what AI is...
View ArticleUsing NotebookLM to facilitate knowledge mobilization and broader...
Learning technologies research can be useful to many different groups of people. This is one of the reasons why there has been an emphasis on getting research findings into the hands of broader...
View ArticleOTESSA – 2 special issue calls for papers
OTESSA has two calls for special issue papers: Mapping Terminology, Theory, Policy, and Resources Across Key Areas of Impact In Educational Technology. Supporting and Understanding Access to Research...
View ArticleKind and accurate summary of “Learning Online: The student experience”
I just came across the following summary of my book Learning Online: The student experience from librarians at the University of Northern Iowa, within a list of books focused on Universities and...
View Article2033 – Future education scenario 3 of 3
In a recent paper* we describe three education scenarios and ask youth to respond to them. Positioned in 2033, these futures represent three distinct possibilities for what education could look like in...
View Article2033 – Future education scenario 2 of 3
In a recent paper* we describe three education scenarios and ask youth to respond to them. Positioned in 2033, these futures represent three distinct possibilities for what education could look like in...
View Article2033 – Future education scenario 1 of 3
In a recent paper* we describe three education scenarios and ask youth to respond to them. Positioned in 2033, these futures represent three distinct possibilities for what education could look like in...
View ArticleCall for submissions: the intersection of AI + open education
MIT Open Learning is announcing a 2024 call for proposals from practitioners in open education and AI from around the world. We invite individual authors or groups of authors from and across higher...
View ArticleBe my colleague? Open position: Director of Online Programs in Learning...
We (the Learning Technologies degree program at the University of Minnesota – Twin cities) are growing, and are currently seeking a full-time (12-months) Director of Online Programs in Learning...
View ArticleSpecial issue now available: Higher Education Futures at the intersection of...
A few months back, colleagues and I began editing a special issue focused on Higher Education Futures at the intersection of justice, hope, and educational technology (original call for proposals) for...
View ArticleAI in the (greek-speaking) classroom
In May, I contributed to a professional development workshop for Greek teachers organized by Greece’s Institute of Educational Policy, focused on AI in the classroom. Alfavita produced a summary, and I...
View ArticleTwo weeks left to contribute to the 2024 Spring Pan-Canadian Digital Learning...
The invitation below is from the good folks at that Canadian Digital Learning Research Association (Disclosure: I’m a member of CDLRA and prior to leaving Canada, I was member of the board of...
View ArticleNew publication: How do Canadian Faculty Members Imagine Future Teaching and...
What do future learning environments look like? Is online learning “the new normal?” Or, are we back to the “old normal?” What does the “new normal” look like? Never mind concepts of “normal,”… what do...
View ArticleOpEd: 5 questions schools and universities should ask before they purchase AI...
I wrote the op ed below for The Conversation and I am republishing it here for posterity, under their Creative Commons license. Here’s the original article. 5 questions schools and universities...
View Articlemore on erasure and edtech
Last week I wrote a post on erasure and edtech, and this morning I saw that Stephen Downes has replied. He writes that he “can’t verify whether Audrey Watters ever wrote this, because a Google search...
View ArticleNew paper: Treating AI as a real psychological other
In a recent talk, Punya Mishra claimed that “whether we like it or not we will start treating these bots as a if they are a psychological real other.” There’s quite a lot of evidence from social...
View ArticleEdtech history, erasure, udacity, and blockchain
This thought in Audrey’s newsletter (update: link added March 30th) caught my attention, and encouraged me to share a related story. [Rose Eveleth] notes how hard it can be to tell a history when you...
View ArticleTwine as a reprieve from yet-another-meeting
On Wednesday, my work day started at 8. That’s how it starts, every day (well, except on those days that it starts at 5, like today). And then it went like this: Empirical Educator Project summit 8-9...
View ArticleCall for chapters- AECT at 100: A Century of Leadership in Educational...
Sharing this CFP on behalf of colleagues. The editors of AECT at 100: A Century of Leadership in Educational Technology have extended this call for chapter proposals until November 30, 2021 and are...
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