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Fereshte Goshtasbpour

@gfereshte.bsky.social

Lecturer in Digital Education at The Open University. Digital Education. Digital Health. JIME- Associate Editor Computers & Learning Research Group (CALRG)-Co-lead https://sites.google.com/view/gfereshte/publications-and-presentations

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Technology–enhanced learning: foundations and futures
The skills and knowledge you’ll acquire through supported postgraduate study at The Open University can bring real-life benefits to you 
and your career.
Learn about the theory and practice 
of online and blended learning
Flexible study.
Fully online.
60 postgraduate credits.
www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/modules/h880

Technology–enhanced learning: foundations and futures The skills and knowledge you’ll acquire through supported postgraduate study at The Open University can bring real-life benefits to you and your career. Learn about the theory and practice of online and blended learning Flexible study. Fully online. 60 postgraduate credits. www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/modules/h880

Registration now open for OU online Masters module Technology Enhanced Learning: Foundations And Futures for Feb 26 start. 60 PG credits, entirely online. Also part of Masters in Online Teaching. Ideal for new and experienced educators from all sectors & countries.
www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...

22.10.2025 13:00 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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#AI in the classroom: What students are saying (survey)

ec.europa.eu/newsroom/eac...
#AIED

14.10.2025 08:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Our latest paper based on #healthwearable & #selftrack data

The findings show that some transplant recipients can actually meet and even exceed physical activity guidelines as measured by both subjective (self-reported training load) and objective GPS data. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

11.10.2025 09:21 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Senior Hub Manager Senior Hub Manager

📢JOB OPPORTUNITY 📢

Lead our £5M Research Capability Hub and come and work with some amazing colleagues @openuniversity.bsky.social Institute of Educational Technology and PolicyWISE

Closing date: 20 October 2025

jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Senior-H...

29.09.2025 15:15 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Contextualizing Everyday Data Literacies: The Case of Recreational Runners Data literacy is typically described in a decontextualized manner, and many data literacy frameworks are detached from the “messy” realities of everyday life. In the present study, we selected a sp...

A great article about the impotance of context when data literacy measures are considered.

Contextualising Everyday Data Literacies: The Case of Recreational Runners
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

#quantifiedself #dataliteracy #wellnessdata #sportdata #runner #running

29.09.2025 10:29 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#autumnlight

28.09.2025 17:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Call for session proposals This year, we are delighted to host the 11th international Social Media for Learning in Higher Education conference at Lancaster University, co-chaired by Dr Katy Jordan and Dr Kathy Chandler. The …

This year, #socmedhe25 will be coming to Lancaster University, on 16th December! The call for papers/session proposals is now open at socmedhe25.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/c... - please submit abstracts by *24th October*
Hope you can join us - see you in December!

23.09.2025 12:19 — 👍 7    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 5
CHEF WG2 Webinar: Future institutions in, with, and for Society 3 – Siân Bayne Drawing on Siân Bayne’s inspirational and extensive research in higher education futures and digital education, this talk examines the complex relationships between humans and machines through critica...

Looking forward to this!

Thursday 9 October 2025, at 14:30 - 15:30
Future institution in, with and for Society 3 by Sain Bayne

dpu.au.dk/en/about-the...

25.09.2025 09:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Metaphors of AI in Education: Discourses, Histories and Practices | Journal of Interactive Media in Education This special issue, Metaphors of AI in Education: Discourses, Histories and Practices, investigates how metaphors frame, challenge, and reimagine understandings of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED).

If you're at the @unesco.bsky.social Digital Learning Week, you'll perhaps be interested in the recent special collection of JIME - Metaphors of #AI in Education: Discourses, Histories and Practices, featuring an interview with keynote @emilymbender.bsky.social

jime.open.ac.uk/collections/...

02.09.2025 13:01 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Research and Scholarship in #DigitalEducation

💻60 PG credits
🧑‍🎓Stand alone or as part of MA in Online Teaching
📆 registration deadline: 11 September
ℹ️info: www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...

#OUMAOT #EdTech

27.08.2025 16:18 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Smart Systems: Engineering and Managing Information for Future Success This book offers a comprehensive exploration of cutting-edge technologies that are reshaping industries and societies

A great #openaccess book with some interesting chapters on #digitalhealth
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

20.08.2025 12:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

My baby module is open for registration for 2025! Feel free to contact me if you'd like to know more or have any question about the module.

#digitaleducation

15.07.2025 10:05 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Communication in Language MOOCs (Chapter 11) - The Cambridge Handbook of Technology in Language Teaching and Learning The Cambridge Handbook of Technology in Language Teaching and Learning - June 2025

“Communication Language MOOCs” co-authored with @agneskh.bsky.social and Barbara Conde Gafaro in the Cambridge Handbook of Technology in Language Teaching and Learning is out!

#moocs #learningatscale

www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

26.06.2025 19:14 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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They are glowing
in rage
#KeepTellingofGaza #GazaGenocide

21.06.2025 07:43 — 👍 38    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0
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Day 2 of #CALRG2025 kicks off with a #digitalhealth session. Feel free to join us (email CALRG@open.ac.uk for the link).

Conference programme: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/CALRG/

17.06.2025 08:28 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#CALRG2025 kicks off today with a keynote by Prof. Eileen Scanlon: Learning Science at a Distance? at 14.00

Full conference programme: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/CALRG/...

email CALRG@open.ac.uk for the link to the sessions.

16.06.2025 06:58 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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@jisc.bsky.social report: Student perceptions of AI 2025
www.jisc.ac.uk/reports/stud...

#AI #AiinEducation #AI2025

13.06.2025 10:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Less than a week to #CALRG annual conference!

For more info see: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/CALRG/...

#calrg2025 #digitaleducation #EdTechconference

11.06.2025 16:11 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The schedule & abstracts for the 48th #CALRG Conference are now available! www.open.ac.uk/blogs/CALRG/...

📆16-19 June 2025
💻 Free, Online and open to all

External to The Open University (UK), email us (CALRG@open.ac.uk) for session links.

#CALRG2025 #EdTech #DigitalEducation

06.06.2025 22:44 — 👍 0    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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🚨 Registration is open🚨
Explore the cutting edge of #digitallearning & #EdTech research in our Research & Scholarship in Digital Education module (H890)

🔍 Investigate 📚 Reflect 💡 Innovate
www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Registration closes 11/09/25 (places subject to availability)
#digitaleducation

27.05.2025 13:52 — 👍 2    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Will be out soon: Communication in Language MOOCs

Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Fereshte Goshtasbpour, and Barbara Conde-Gafaro

www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

19.05.2025 10:49 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Commonwealth Scholarship applications now invited for The Open University’s Masters in Online Teaching | Masters in Online Teaching

Scholarships available to study our Masters in Online Teaching - apply by 20 May www.open.ac.uk/blogs/MAOT/i...

14.05.2025 09:57 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
What happens if AI just keeps getting smarter?
YouTube video by Rational Animations What happens if AI just keeps getting smarter?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bnx...

03.05.2025 20:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
British Council 90th Anniversary Research Fellowships | IASH

www.iash.ed.ac.uk/british-coun...

30.04.2025 10:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Stunning!

23.04.2025 17:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Are you a UK based self-funded post grad researcher? (PhD, MRes etc) If so, I'd like to send you a copy of my book. I have *five* to give away. Please share and drop a note below or DM me. I'll announce next Friday (from the pub) 🐕 📖 🍺 more info -
www.immersiveresearch.co.uk/bookshop

11.04.2025 07:16 — 👍 29    🔁 24    💬 4    📌 3

Deadline extended to *30th April* for submissions to the special issue on Open Education and Open Science in the Digital Age - see below

15.04.2025 15:34 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Commonwealth Scholarships 2025 | Institute of Educational Technology, The Open UniversityInstitute of Educational Technology

We have been fortunate enough to be awarded some more Commonwealth Scholarship places for entry onto our Masters in Online Teaching next year. Please share this information far and wide, especially if you have contacts in the eligible Commonwealth countries.

iet.open.ac.uk/commonwealth...

14.04.2025 14:49 — 👍 7    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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Registration is open now! www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...
#digitaleducation #OUMAOT #PGT

09.04.2025 16:20 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
The skills and knowledge you’ll acquire through supported postgraduate study at The Open University can bring real-life benefits to you and your career.

MA in Online Teaching

Study the theory and practice of online and blended teaching.

www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/qualifications/f98

Flexible study
Fully online
180 postgraduate credits

The skills and knowledge you’ll acquire through supported postgraduate study at The Open University can bring real-life benefits to you and your career. MA in Online Teaching Study the theory and practice of online and blended teaching. www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/qualifications/f98 Flexible study Fully online 180 postgraduate credits

The skills and knowledge you’ll acquire through supported postgraduate study at The Open University can bring real-life benefits to you and your career. Study the theory and practice of online and blended teaching: www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/qualifications/f98

28.03.2025 14:35 — 👍 5    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

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