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Thomas Cochrane

@thomcochrane.bsky.social

Associate Professor, Technology Enhanced Learning, CSHE, University of Melbourne, AU. PhD, SFHEA, SCMALT https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0192-6118 http://thomcochrane.wordpress.com

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Apple’s Lack of Interest in AI Hype Is Suddenly Making It Attractive to Wall Street Apple has positioned itself as an alternative to tech stocks dependent on the AI boom to grow.

A different approach to AI adoption from Apple - now paying off? flip.it/kfrEVB

19.02.2026 09:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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With Apple’s new Creator Studio Pro, AI is a tool to aid creation, not replace it | TechCrunch Apple’s Creator Studio Pro leverages AI to help creators with tedious tasks β€” like finding clips or building slides β€” without trying to do the work for them.

techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/w...

Human-AI Co-Creation (HACC) to foster creativity: Zhong, J., & Cochrane, T. (2024). Heutagogy-based Human-AI Co-creation Practice: A Framework for Enhancing Undergraduate Creativity. doi.org/10.14742/apu...

28.01.2026 21:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

By end of Feb @bsky.app will be the 2nd largest social media source for research sharing in our database

- Google+ managed 945,000 mentions of research during its life
- Facebook pages (not people's profiles) have shared papers 6.6m times
- Reddit = 600k

Bluesky is currently at 6m and climbing

28.01.2026 10:23 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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AI is moving beyond chatbots β€” here’s what comes next This is just the beginning of what AI can do

flip.it/FCqlX0

27.01.2026 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

AI is moving beyond chatbots β€” here’s what comes next: The next phase of AI won’t be something you open and talk to β€” it’ll be something that quietly works alongside you.

27.01.2026 19:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

7 AI Decisions That Will Define Higher Education In 2026 - β€œThe institutional mandate is clear: shift from academic integrity enforcement to AI fluency enablement.”

26.12.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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AI Code Is a Bug-Filled Mess A new report by AI software company CodeRabbit found that code generated by an AI was far more error-prone than human-written code.

futurism.com/artificial-i... Comments form AI coders?

26.12.2025 23:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My 2025 exercise stats

17.12.2025 05:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Google Says First AI Glasses With Gemini Will Arrive in 2026 Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it’s working to create two different categories of artificial intelligence-powered smart glasses to compete next year with existing models from Meta Platforms Inc.: one wit...

AI powering the next generation of wearable technologies flip.it/6wDTo0
Google Says First AI Glasses With Gemini Will Arrive in 2026

08.12.2025 19:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s time to use AI to solve real problems impacting daily life flip.it/un9HF_

04.12.2025 21:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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#ASCILITE2025 Keynote1 in Adelaide

01.12.2025 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Companies Are Quietly Rehiring the Workers They Replaced With AI Maybe AI doesn't bring the big efficiency savings they thought it would.

www.extremetech.com/computing/co...

07.11.2025 22:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Companies Are Quietly Rehiring the Workers They Replaced With AI

07.11.2025 22:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Adobe Premiere for iPhone now available – free with catches

30.09.2025 13:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Human Agency in the Age of AI When AI stands at the ready to do our workβ€”and our thinkingβ€”for us, human agency is what keeps us drivers, not passengers, of the mind.

Human Agency in the Age of AI flip.it/_AL8Rm

14.09.2025 09:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Tuwhera: A commitment to open access and a sustainable and equitable knowledge commons – DOAJ Blog

Open Access Publishing via Tuwhera and mention of PJTEL blog.doaj.org/2025/07/29/t... The Pacific Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning ojs.aut.ac.nz/pjtel/ aims to provide new and emerging, as well as experienced researchers an open access platform to share their findings and discourse.

30.07.2025 00:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Powered knee exoskeleton boosts leg strength by a claimed 50% Motors have been added to bikes, skateboards and kayaks … so how about just slapping a couple directly to your legs? That's exactly what the Z1 knee exoskeleton does, reportedly offering a 50% boost i...

More versatile than an e-bike? newatlas.com/outdoor-gear...

24.07.2025 05:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Machines Aren’t Intelligent OpenAI's LLM has achievedΒ gold‑medal level performance at the 2025 IMO. We might think that machines are becoming incredibly intelligent. Yet this would be a mistake.

Why Machines Aren’t Intelligent flip.it/0U1eXo

20.07.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ranked: The World’s 30 Top Research Universities Overall, U.S. universities make up 19 of the top 30 global research universities, followed by four UK universities.

World’s Top 30 research Universities www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-w...

17.07.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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#EDUC90970 Facilitating Online Learning Participants - Google My Maps Collaborative Map of #EDUC90970 Facilitating Online Learning course

Prepping for Semester2 2025 #EDUC90970 Community of Inquiry www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...

14.07.2025 02:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A recent bibliometrics analysis identifies the Key Authors in HEUTAGOGY research: @thomcochrane.bsky.social @ATZ119 @vnarayan.bsky.social @LisaMBlaschke doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...

05.07.2025 11:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Call for Papers - ASCILITE 2025

Heads up - ASCILITE papers are due 22 June this year!

eventstudio.eventsair.com/ascilite-202...

Call for Papers - ASCILITE 2025

05.06.2025 02:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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(PDF) A Design-Based Research (DBR) Framework to Guide Curriculum Design PDF | A Design-Based Research (DBR) Framework to Guide Curriculum Design 1 Why use Design Based Research (DBR) to guide curriculum design? 2 What is... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

5000 reads on ResearchGate - Preprint A Design-Based Research (DBR) Framework to Guide Curriculum Design
www.researchgate.net/publication/...

28.05.2025 05:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Health Professional Education The utility of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in online Health Professional Education (HPE) has come to the fore with the release of publicly accessible online generative AI (GenAI) interfaces. The resu...

Hot off the press: Cochrane, T., Seignior, D., & Kok, D. (2025). Applications of artificial intelligence to health professional education. In D. L. Kok, D. Seignior, & M. Barrett (Eds.), Best Practices in Online Education: A Guide for Health Professional Educators. Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-...

28.05.2025 05:22 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

N.Y. cancer center using virtual reality to help patients manage pain #ASCILITEMLSIG

30.04.2025 02:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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VR β€˜transforming medical field’ through training, prototyping, treatment Medical uses of VR include creating realistic training environments, visualising product development and managing pain.

VR β€˜transforming medical field’ through training, prototyping, treatment
www.medicaldevice-network.com/news/vr-tran... via @MedicalTechMag #ASCILITEMLSIG

07.04.2025 23:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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America's 'DeepSeek Moment' Has Arrived, Peter Thiel-Backed Nonprofit Says - Decrypt Operating as a non-profit, Sentient argues AI development "should belong to the community, not controlled by closed-source corporations."

Open Source AI decrypt.co/312580/ameri...

02.04.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Virtual and F2F Symposium – Coming Up in 2025! | SOTEL Coming up in 2025 we have a Virtual Symposium with a Webinar Series and a series of F2F @UniMelb Symposia The SoTEL2025 virtual international Symposium

Virtual and F2F Symposia; Coming Up in 2025! blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sotel/2025/0...

20.03.2025 23:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Welcome to 2025! | SOTEL 2024 ended with a real blast with the RECORD-BREAKING ASCILITE2024 Conference hosted by the University of Melbourne - well done UniMelb Team! Now into week 3

Welcome to 2025! blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sotel/2025/0...

20.03.2025 23:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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SoTEL2025 Virtual Technology Enhanced Learning Symposium now accepting 500 word abstracts for double-blind peer-reviewed publication and presentation sotel.nz

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