Pete Evans

Call for Papers Open! Interdisciplinary Pathways: Engaging Learners and Creating Opportunities Call for papers  Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh 16 April 2026  This year’s Conference …

Call for papers for the 2026 #Interdisciplinary #Learning and Teaching Conference at #Edinburgh Future Institute. Closing date for submissions is 16 Jan 2026 See interdisciplinaryuk.net/future-event...

Universities must become more open to non-academic talent: Both within management and the professoriate, the need for a wider range of experience and skills is only getting stronger, says Marcus Munafò
https://ow.ly/O8yL50X9Fjp

Greenwich and Kent announce merger to form 'super-university' Universities are facing ongoing financial worries, with the regulator saying other mergers could follow.

And so it begins.

My prediction:

1) ‘back-office efficiencies’ (aka cull of professional services and academic-related staff inc programme admin, student support, teaching/learning support / digital learning support /libraries / professional development etc)

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The Guardian view on university finances: stop chipping away at a crumbling system | Editorial Editorial: Economic and academic activity are bound up together. Charging international students more for less will not fix deep-seated problems

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Strange piece on #ukhe finance. No mention of the tripling of fees by the coalition government, the removal of number caps nor the problems of focusing funding on HE rather than a coherent tertiary system

Nice trillions-dollar industry you got there. It would be a shame if anyone tested its claims empirically

Interesting summary of Skills England's latest report on priority #skills for 2030: especially that only 70% of computing graduates go on to #employment in IT. www.bcs.org/articles-opi... #employability #highered #tertiaryed #vocationaled

The AI Literacy Framework from @ec.europa.eu. @oecd-ocde.bsky.social, Code. org & others. Details key skills students need to navigate and shape a world with #AI.
The feedback survey is still open to help shape the final version.

👉See ailiteracyframework.org #AIEd #DigitalEducation

CfP for Nineteenth International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies at Rhodes. Proposals due by 16 September on the theme of human-centred AI transformations. See cgscholar.com/cg_event/eve... #DigitalEducation #elearning #AIED #higherEd #education

"By positing superintelligence as the future goal, and in repeating over and over again that it will absolutely, positively be here almost immediately, Altman and Zuckerberg can then just take it as read that what we are dealing with today is 'AI', artificial intelligence."

More college students now learn entirely online than completely in-person This year is the first time that more U.S. college students will learn entirely online compared to being fully in-person. And research shows most online programs cost as much or more than in-person.Th...

For the USA, it looks like students studying wholly online will outnumber on-campus students www.npr.org/2025/07/11/n... #highered #digitaleducation

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Special issue of New Media & Society on digital twinning at journals.sagepub.com/toc/nmsa/27/8 #digitalTwinning

Edinburgh Critical AI in Education Network The event is aimed at creating a space for critical discussion of AI across our universities in Edinburgh

#Edinburgh Critical AI in Education Network event on 1 September, 1 - 4 pm, to organise for a more critical voice on AI-adoption within #HigherEd. Book a seat at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/edinburgh-... #AIEd #UKHE

Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online - Athabasca University Press Instructors across higher education require inspiring and practical resources for creating, adapting to, and enhancing, online teaching and learning spaces. Faculty need to build collaborative, equita...

New #open access book on Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online available as part of the excellent Issues in Distance Education services from @aupress.bsky.social at www.aupress.ca/books/120334... #pedagogy #DigitalEducation

Yes, a techno-optimism combined with a large dollop of naivety

He not we doh!
The key point on what the report findings mean for the perceived integrity and value of degree is key but a return to exams seems a backward step for many disciplined

And yet two of the references cited conclude ai detection tools are neither accurate nor reliable and cannot be recommended. The other states that a minority of detection tools are accurate. Did the author hallucinate what we wanted these references to argue?

University of Edinburgh launching learning and teaching strategy 2030 @ the learning and teaching conference #highered

Yes, a great question. it’s as if universities as institutions ignore all their academics warning them of the risks and costs of big tech, data extractivism etc

Denmark's govt are going fullstack OS Linux. Humboldt Berlin uni are fullstack OS Linux. Lots of other German and Dutch unis are completely free of Global big tech. If UK universities are all verging on bankrupt, why are they pouring money into big tech (incl AI)? Why aren't they all OS Linux?

... and if you're interested in the MSc programme itself, you can find more information at www.de.ed.ac.uk/mscde #postgrad #masters #digitaleducation #highered @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

Join us for a vibrant, student-led conference showcasing critical, creative, &scholarly work in #digitaleducation by students & alumni of the MSc Digital Education Programme @morayhouse.bsky.social University of Edinburgh. Free and online. Tickets at
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-ed... #ukhe

Postdigital Science and Education Postdigital Science and Education is the pioneering academic journal focusing on postdigital themes and research approaches in education. Links various ...

Call for abstracts for Special Issue of #postdigital #Science and #Education in the Majority World - deadline 1 May 2025. Edited by colleagues at Centre for Research in Digital Education www.de.ed.ac.uk

link.springer.com/journal/4243...

I did indeed. Thanks for correcting and for the good read!

Stowe Boyd | Substack Politics, culture, philosophy, and miscellaneous ruminations. Click to read Stowe Boyd, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.

A valuable read from @stoweboyd.bsky.social for all higher education managers in a time of crisis on institutional resilience and the dangers of focusing on efficiency and cost reduction above all #highereducation #universities #resilience #adaptivecapacities www.stoweboyd.io?utm_source=n...

Includes the university of #edinburgh ‘s MSc in Digital Education www.de.ed.ac.uk/mscde
#digitaleducation

Applications open for Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships for the innovative MSc Digital Education at @morayhouse.bsky.social #digitaleducation #EdTech Info session 30 April 11am (UK time) to learn more.
📧 Contact: digitaled@ed.ac.uk
🔗 Info + how to apply: edin.ac/4jkcmPE

Interesting stuff. It would have been good if more progress on the cohesion and coherence agenda had been made in Scotland before this current crisis in #ukhe (or peaking of a long standing crisis in tertiary edu)

Postdigital Science and Education and The Majority World - Postdigital Science and Education Postdigital Science and Education -

A hugely important article, exploring postdigital perspectives on the Global South... link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Decline in interest in ‘Big Four’ study destinations Interest by prospective international students in the ‘Big Four’ study destinations – the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia – decli...

“Interest by prospective international students in the ‘Big Four’ study destinations – the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia – declined by 14% in the year ending January 2025. This decline follows a 22% decline the previous year.” More ➣ @uniworldnews.bsky.social

A6: Good, old fashioned VLE, open source preferably. In the post apocalyptic world, I’d gather a bunch of rebels and we’d co-create a great digital learning ecosystem. Mad Max style #LTHEChat