Nora Leopardi (she/they)

OER Collective Community Day 2025

📣 Hey #OERCollective! Community Day program is out 🤩 Tues 25 March hear from:

🔑 Keynote: Dave Ernst, @openednetwork.bsky.social

💡”Diagnosis”: @noraleopardi.bsky.social & Nara Jones

💡”Introducing Scoping & Systematic Reviews”: Karen Pruis & Beth Deans

Full deets & reg: tinyurl.com/yckz52za
#OER

Have I found the solution to my chronic writing challenges? How do I feel morally about this? How does everyone else feel about this?

NSW Junior Doctors after receiving heartfelt apology by NSW Minister for Health: "They are a vital and valued part of our health system's workforce, and that email fell well short of reflecting that."

a man wearing headphones and a microphone says everything is fine ALT: a man wearing headphones and a microphone says everything is fine

I rewatched "Don't Look Up". Pretty funny movie, now I have nightmares 🙃

The whole concept of true vs fake is being reshaped. We need philosophers and ethicists advising on GenAI.

I don't think people know that making plausible fake videos is now something that doesn't require a lot of skill or time

I made this Veo video of a man trying out a flying skateboard at CES from a text prompt, 2nd try. Notice the shadows, green light, his body shifts for balance

Did you know that in Italian we have a specific word to indicate "to bubble slowly like ragu" or "to make a bubbling noise like ragu"? It's "pippitiare".
Italian does not have a specific word for leadership.
✨Priorities✨

Welcome! It's excellent seeing you here!

Interaction tools (Kahoot, Mentimeter and similar) that allow for anonymous engagement during synchronous sessions. They are not always exactly what I need, but lowering the threshold for everyone to participate more is so important to my practice!

Researchers used AI to generate 288 complete academic finance papers predicting stock returns, complete with plausible theoretical frameworks & citations. Each paper looks and reads as legit.

They did this to show how easy it now is to mass produce "credible" research. Academia isn't ready.

What just happened A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI

Here's the link if you're interested in reading the full post (and if this came on your feed, you probably are. Or you are Ethan Mollick, in which case... Hello!) open.substack.com/pub/oneusefu...

a man is walking through a living room carrying a bag and saying `` i need a break . '' Alt: A man exhaustedly lying on the floor face down. Caption text saying "I need a break"

"The last month has transformed the state of AI, with the pace picking up dramatically in just the last week. AI labs have unleashed a flood of new products..."
But I'm ON LEAVE! 😫
@emollick.bsky.social, can you please tell everyone to chill for a bit? I need a break!
#GenAI #HigherEd #MedEd #HPE

I see, okay, probably too quick a reading by me then - sorry. I hope the increased emphasis and expanded focus is what the "new" wants to remark on, encouraging for more submissions, rather than a self-indulgent note 😊

I am not sure then of your point in the original post... What's embarrassing about this? 🤔
10/10 to ANZAME for changing to ANZAHPE, but it's a different education context. It was 2011 when in med school I was told not to trust nurses, and nursing students were being taught not to trust doctors 😕

IIRC, interprofessional education has been an explicit submission theme since at least 2014 (my first of this conference). Also worth remembering that many countries struggle to implement IPE because of structural challenges (tbh we do too at my uni), plus the focus of this new track goes beyond IPE

a pixel art of a dinosaur standing next to a cactus . Alt: Low-fi runner game: pixel art of a dinosaur running and jumping over a cactus.

I'd left myself 21-22 tabs with interesting work reading to do over the break, but I accidentally restarted my computer and the tabs are gone. I'm calling it a sign. ✨
Happy holidays, everyone! 🥂🎄🎁

Improving accessibility to Medical and Health Professions Education means stronger healthcare systems! 🏥🧑‍⚕️ Also, OERs reduce costs for institutions, reducing reliance on publishers and their extortionate pricing 🤑💰. Ask a Librarian how to find an OER to include in your course! #AcademicSky

Nara and I chose to publish Diagnosis as an Open Educational Resource. We know first-hand how hard it is to advocate for institutional access to quality educational resources for students. This creates inequities between learners, disadvantaging already underprivileged learners!

It's official! Thanks to the superstar team at the University of Newcastle Library, my board game is now available! 🧠 Diagnosis is for everyone, for free, for ever, to adopt and adapt to develop your learners' clinical reasoning skills 🩺 #MedEd #HPE #AcademicSky
oercollective.caul.edu.au/diagnosis/

Just had an idea

a cartoon character is wearing a hoodie and laughing in front of a fire background . ALT: a cartoon character is wearing a hoodie and laughing in front of a fire background .

I actually love the time of the year where almost every email is followed by an instant out-of-office reply. Yes, everyone, let's take a break!
Also, this is on your desk now for when you return, and not on mine.
#AcademicSky #MedEd #HPE #HolidayMood

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014.
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem

Humanities expelled from key New Zealand research funding scheme Scientists from the favoured areas raise the strongest objections

Humanities expelled from key New Zealand research funding scheme
Scientists from the favoured areas raise the strongest objections

#EduSky #AcademicSky #Highered

Many people lined up against a sparkly wall. Gold balloons reading "AI" are floating in the background.

✨The Festival of GenAI at Uni Newcastle was f-ing awesome!! ✨ Yes, I'm biased because I organised it. 💅
But: 2 inspiring keynotes, 70 people in a promptathon, dozens of solutions to our challenges, & 90 minutes of open discussion... It was awesome. Thanks to all who attended! The time is always now!

Universities do not exist to 'train', produce 'skills' or generate 'impact'. They exist to create new knowledge and teach about it. Any assertion to the contrary is in error, and is destroying everything it touches.

Maybe it's a collective nightmare and we will wake up and laugh at how wild and terrifying it was. Because surely we aren't witnessing a demolition of higher education across multiple countries, right? ...RIGHT?

Nora Leopardi: The Academic Voice with a Meme-Ready Zing Navigating academia with more sass than a reality TV reunion.

Holy guacamole... I almost feel exposed in sharing this. Not even my Spotify Wrapped reaches this level of realness.

As for the suggestion to start a blog, please watch this space 😜 #NorasCORNER

blueskyroast.com/roast/norale...

The pronunciation of our names matter.
The spelling of our names matter.
The accents in our names matter.

Our names matter.

I do not donate to my employer because we are already in a labor for compensation relationship. I'm very confused by these emails.

i am sorry to my gen x coworkers but you have to understand i am never, under any circumstances, going to answer a teams call without a message outlining why we need to talk first