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Congratulations to all who submitted accepted papers!! Earlybird rate ends 28 February - register at www.d-teachschool.com/NLC2026/

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Submission reminder for #NLC2026 in Brussels next spring: Papers & Symposia by 10 Oct
Workshops & Round Tables are due by 21 Nov to journals.aau.dk/index.php/nl... (which also gets you searchable open access to 25 years of brilliant learning technology scholarship #justsayin) #networkedlearning

I should think there’s a good overlap of interests with #NetworkedLearning @nlcc.bsky.social ?

2025 NLC Node Event in Asia 2025 NLC Node Event in Asia – Hosted by Seoul National University

'Networked Learning Research in the Post-Era' themed events begin next Wednesday, July 9, 2025, 5PM-7PM (KST) or 10AM-12PM (CEST) free online. Breaking new ground, our first node event based in Asia stars Prof. Nina Bonderup Dohn 🤩 www.networkedlearning.aau.dk/news/2025-nl...

Wondering if anyone can suggest research for me to read on predictions/recommendations on what the future university workforce will look like? e.g. academic vs professional staff, third space work. Particularly interested in the Australian context but I'll read anything. #academicsky

NLC2026 Submission information Networked Learning Conference 2026, NLC2026, how to submit research, submission information

Call for papers 🙌🥳 www.networkedlearning.aau.dk/nlc-2026/nlc... #nlc2026

The real cost of AI is being paid in deserts far from Silicon Valley In Empire of AI, journalist Karen Hao writes about the rise of OpenAI and the impacts of AI around the world. Below is an extract from the book on the effects on Chile's mineral reserves and water res...

I'm thrilled that @restofworld.org has excerpted one of my favorite passages from EMPIRE OF AI. It's not about Sam Altman or OpenAI directly. It's about what their vision of scale is costing us—and how we could dare to dream for a different conception of progress. 1/

restofworld.org/2025/ai-reso...

I’m looking forward to speak at the @work2025fi.bsky.social conference! I’ll be discussing academic labour and HE in the age of digital rentiership.

poster for hype studies conference by alex wifi with a hype bubble machine

🔔 Reminder!

Hype Studies Conference (10-12th Sept in Barcelona/online) is accepting abstracts until 10th May!

You can submit your contribution here:

hypestudies.org/conference/a...

The event is free and open to academics and practitioners alike. We hope to hear from many of you soon 🫵 💜

Learning, Media and Technology Mapping rentiership and assetisation in the digitalisation of education Edited by Janja Komljenovic, Kean Birch and Sam Sellar This special issue builds on emerging work on rentiership and assetisation in education to address the lack of analytical attention on these dynamics and to begin mapping a future research agenda for the field. To date, research in this field has introduced key concepts for understanding assetisation and has illuminated potential challenges for the digitalisation of higher education (Komljenovic 2021, 2022). Other areas of investigation include: how assetisation relates to other economic processes in education and how it remakes educational processes and subjects as com- modified entities (Grimaldi, Ball, and Peruzzo 2023); how automated interventions in education are calculated based on assetised resources (Hansen and Komljenovic 2023); the potential for, and challenges of, digital disruption in digital economies organised subject to assetised governance (Komljenovic et al. 2024a); the assetisation strategies of edupreneurs as they collaborate with edu- cation and research sectors (Ideland and Serder 2023); the futuring activities of EdTech investors (Komljenovic et al. 2023; Komljenovic, Sellar, and Birch 2024b; Williamson and Komljenovic 2023); and the translation of tuition fees into assets (Milyaeva and Neyland 2020)

🟨Volume 50, Issue 1 (2025) of LMT🟪

Let's introduce our new Special Issue! In their editorial
@jkom.bsky.social, @keanbirch.bsky.social & Sam Sellar intruduce the dynamics of #rentiership and #assetisation in the digitalisation of education.

Read all articles: tinyurl.com/a8bvzkxe

How Technologies Divide Us: A Q&A with Nicholas Carr | TechPolicy.Press New America's Akash Kapur connected with Carr after the publication of his new book, Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart.

@techpolicypress.bsky.social has posted a lovely interview with Nicholas Carr, the author of our NEXT book club on March 13.

You can register for that one here: oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

www.techpolicy.press/how-technolo...

With all the obscenely wealthy tech CEO’s lined up behind Trump it seems like a fitting time to share this call for papers to explore post-platform alternatives and issues in education. Time for new ecosystems, baby!
@lmt-journal.bsky.social
Co-edited by me and Niels Kerssens, deadline end of Feb

bsky.app/profile/suza... Welcome to bsky @suzankoseoglu.bsky.social 🙌🤗

Call for chapters: Co-Construction in Higher Education Invitation to Contribute: Edited Book on Co-Construction in Higher Education Eds. Dr Suzan Koseoglu, Dr Angelica Pazurek, and Dr Angeliki Voskou We are pleased to invite you to submit a proposal for...

Call for chapters: Co-Construction in Higher Education
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #phenomenography #methodology

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🙌BREAKING!!!🙌 #NLC2026 6-8 May in wonderful Brussels, hosted by d-teach.com and www.fari.brussels For more info and signup for updates at www.networkedlearning.aau.dk What will you bring? Qu'allez-vous apporter ?

The digital backlash in education – critical and postdigital perspectives Symposium with Sarah Hayes, Petar Jandrić, Felicitas Macgilchrist and Neil Selwyn

www.sh.se/english/sode...

A session to discuss different perspectives for academic publishing. ...I wish to discuss the constraints of canonic academic writing, the low methodological literacy (particularly about qualitative methods), and the AI accelerating the academic overproduction.

Abstract deadline approaching (24 Jan) for this very special issue.

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

This is why my children get inaccurate homework set and why some of the cover lessons I do have mistakes in..
it will also be why they start closing schools and replacing teachers with oak National gen ai rubbish. Also 129 isn’t a good sample

.@zentralwerkstatt.org and I co-wrote this piece on why you are (probably) doing AI criticism wrong as a humanist and why we, in Critical AI Studies, need to do better methodologically than 'So I asked ChatGPT a question and now I have thoughts...'
Now available on arXiv at doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Image shows a book cover for the book 'Higher Education for Good' and text alongside reading 'Audio version now available'

The audio version of Higher Education for Good is now available. To access the audio, please visit the book web page www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116..., scroll down to any chapter, and click Download (for MP3 version).
#HE4Good @czernie.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social

humans _make_ words 🌞

Been thinking again about this quote from Sherry Turkle and what it means amidst the push to cement GenAI in education:

"[I]t's almost like we dumb down or dehumanize our sense of what human relationships should be because we measure them by what machines can give us." www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1...

I've created an opt-in Critical Educational Technology Starter Pack. Let me know if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/R9S7tK9

Yes please! :D

not until now - but we do know of gretzuni.com - just forwarded your stuff to her...

Attending the Networked Learning Conference 2024 in Malta In May, I attended the Networked Learning Conference at the University of Malta. Our workshop, held immediately after the keynote, featured music, activities with Rubik’s Cubes, and student i…

thanks for your support and the write up 🙏💐 @mpaskevi.bsky.social michaelpaskevicius.com/2024/06/atte...

t won’t happen all at once, but we’ll soon be able to work with AI that helps us accomplish much more than we ever could without AI; eventually we can each have a personal AI team, full of virtual experts in different areas, working together to create almost anything we can imagine. Our children will have virtual tutors who can provide personalized instruction in any subject, in any language, and at whatever pace they need. We can imagine similar ideas for better healthcare, the ability to create any kind of software someone can imagine, and much more.

When Sam Altman expresses views about the future of education and the role of AI in it - as he did this week in his very silly "Age of Intelligence" post - I think it's important to realize he is absolutely full of shit 1/

An absolute privilege to attend @amltaylor66.bsky.social
Amanda Taylor-Beswick’s
Inaugural Professorial Lecture at the University of Cumbria

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #2,199,604, Networked Learning Conference Consortium ‪@nlcc.bsky.social‬, joined on Nov 27, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and we were #2199604!