Gill Ferrell

Poster advertising a workshop on open standards for European University Alliances on 22 September 2025 in Delft

Masterclass: Using Open Standards to Address Key Higher Education Interoperability Issues.
Monday 22 Sept. TU Delft

Aimed at representatives of University Alliances. Attendance is free.
Contact gferrell@1edtech.org

Deadline approaching - some excellent submissions already - last chance to apply and demonstrate your Learning Impact!
#1EdTechEurope #LearningImpactEurope

Photo of Barbara Wasson, a white woman with blonde curly hair, advertising her talk on hybrid Intelligence at Learning Impact Europe.

Opening keynote Barbara Wasson - member of the Council of Europe’s expert group on AI. Her research centre has just been awarded €31m – find out about this groundbreaking initiative.
#1EdTechEurope www.1edtech.org/event/europe...

Two women and a man from the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training receiving a Learning Impact Award from 1EdTech CEO, Curtiss Barnes

Learning Impact Europe Awards recognize innovative uses of technology that enhance learning outcomes.
You are invited to submit projects that demonstrate positive impact on learners in Europe.
Collaborative submissions welcome!
Deadline 5 Aug
#1EdTechEurope
www.1edtech.org/event/europe...

Last chance to register at early bird rates.
Learning Impact Europe Awards open for entries until 5 August.
www.1edtech.org/event/europe...

Poster for Learning Impact Europe 2025 showing smiling delegates at last year's event

Learning Impact Europe unites educators, public sector & edtech innovators to tackle the biggest challenges in education.

Our core mission: creating a trusted digital learning ecosystem that is:

Open
Collaborative
Inclusive

Join us in shaping the education landscape! Register now
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ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It's Hobbling Future AI Development There may be no undoing the vast amounts of pollution wreaked by ChatGPT. And that's just tough luck for any AI models that come after it.

futurism.com/chatgpt-poll...

Interesting scenario

🏆 We are proud to announce the recipients of this year’s EUNIS Awards, recognizing outstanding contributions to digital transformation in higher education across Europe. 👉 tiny.pl/fxvm58ym
Congrats to all #EUNIS25 Award winners! 👏
#EmergingProfessionals #BestPaper #Elite #Dørup

Well done to all the winners!

James Trueman with 1EdTech CEO, Curtiss Barnes. James is holding a glass trophy.

Massive congratulations James Trueman & Anglia Ruskin University winners of the Global Learning Impact award for Infrastructure. Best wishes from all of us in the 1EdTech Consortium European community. You've done us proud!

🎉 Day 1 of #EUNIS25 kicked off with energy and inspiration! From keynotes to sessions on AI, cybersecurity, and digital transformation, it’s been a day of ideas, connection, and collaboration. Thanks to all involved—more to come 💡

Together with #SURF and @gillferrell.bsky.social of #1Edtech we are organising the #learningimpactEurope conference in September at #tudelft

Stop giving away your face – the viral AI doll trend is a privacy nightmare Millions have already given away their face and sensitive data to jump on the latest viral AI trend

www.techradar.com/computing/cy...

Poster showing two young women engaging in a panel discussion and giving date 23-24 September and location Delft for Learning Impact Europe event 2025

1EdTech Consortium's Learning Impact Europe Empowering education with an ecosystem of open standards: Call for Proposals now open
www.1edtech.org/event/europe/2025

Poster showing two young women engaging in a panel discussion and giving date 23-24 September and location Delft for Learning Impact Europe event 2025

1EdTech Consortium's Learning Impact Europe Empowering education with an ecosystem of open standards: Call for Proposals now open
www.1edtech.org/event/europe/2025

Tim Berners-Lee Wants to Know: 'Who Does AI Work For?' The web's inventor says companies worked together decades ago to create an open internet. That isn't happening with generative AI.

www.cnet.com/tech/service...

‘’… the tech companies didn’t even pay for the copy of my book or likely the tens of thousand other books they used to train their models. My book isn’t available freely online. And, as far as I can tell, they trained on an illegal copy in books3, an online dataset assembled by Russian pirates.’’

I have been an AI researcher for 40 years. What tech giants are doing to book publishing is akin to theft | Toby Walsh Companies claim this is ‘fair use’. I think it’s a digital heist

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This, I would love this. No more gender markers.

LOL I do that so often you wouldn’t believe it!

Despite my general reservations about Generative AI, I had my first exchange with Claude this week. It was both about David Bowie and climate change, but also about the nature of human use of GenAI.

‘Prompting the Alien’ is the result.

https://buff.ly/4i8tCqB

ChatGPT vs. DeepSeek: which AI model Is more sustainable? How do the environmental credentials of these ChatGPT and DeepSeek compare?

DeepSeek emerged last week as the hot new #AI model, but how does it compare on sustainability to ChatGPT?
@cal-innes.bsky.social our sustainability specialist, takes a look in this new piece for Tech Radar.

UK Higher Education VLE Market: 2024 Review — Neil Mosley Consulting A review of the UK higher education VLE market in 2024, analysing key trends, market share, and product developments by higher education consultant Neil Mosley.

"Moodle is the market leader among small providers, Blackboard is still holding on when it comes to large providers...both Blackboard & Moodle had a much higher share, but,,that share has been eroded as universities have switched to Canvas or Brightspace."

I was in Paris last week for the #AIActionSummit & was honoured to participate in the “AI in public interest” panel.

👇🏾 my thoughts & reflections on what AI in public interest is/isn’t & some concrete steps/initiatives for `bending the arc of AI towards the public interest' aial.ie/pages/aiparis/

Interesting and worrying (not surprising) paper posted elsewhere by @jkom.bsky.social
Study by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that increased reliance on GenAI leads to decreased critical thinking.
Full article: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Thank you and best wishes

Hoping so - nice to catch up with you.

Thanks for connecting - looking forward to catching up with what you’re up to

It's weird starting anew on a different platform but I feel less lonely now 😀

Many thanks to @sheilmcn.bsky.social for being my first follower. Just getting started and hoping to connect with my former #edtech #learningtech #1edtech #eunis European Twitterverse