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Great stuff. Straight to it, no messing from @dougbelshaw.com here.

“…life is short and this paper is terrible.” 🙌 😑

Following on from the success of their 2024 event at Manchester Deaf Centre, UKDHHH are hosting a virtual event for organisations and individuals working with, or interested in, the histories of Disabled, Neurodivergent, and/or Deaf people!
Weds 25 June
10:00-16:00 (BST) #Online
#skystorians

Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat which will explore the Artistry of Teaching with @shaunmudd.bsky.social and @profhelenking.bsky.social‬ on Wednesday June 18th, 8-9pm BST. Read the blog post at: lthechat.com?p=7259

‘Using GenAI is easier than asking my supervisor for support’ Doctoral researchers are turning to generative AI to assist in their research. How are they using it, and how can supervisors and candidates have frank discussions about using it responsibly?

Doctoral researchers are turning to #GenAI to assist in their #research. How are they using it, and how can supervisors have frank discussions about using it responsibly? A
@unisouthampton.bsky.social team investigated: www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/using...
#PhDsky #academicsky #highered

OpenAI and Anthropic are fighting over college students with free AI OpenAI and Anthropic launch higher education initiatives ahead of finals week.

"Both labs releasing education initiatives simultaneously reveals the high value of college students. The race to embed AI tools in academia is a competition to shape how the next generation works with AI — and crucially, to become their default AI tool." 🤢 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Speaking Truth to Power: Open Education and AI in the Age of Populism

As the narratives on AI gather traction & populist movements dominate public debates, #OpenEducation faces new challenges & opportunities. #OER25 will consider the future of Open Education in a changing world. The Call for Proposals is open until 7 April. Learn more: go.alt.ac.uk/3DvdalB #altc #OER

Future Teacher: Reflected We are re-running all our topics for a 3rd time under the banner of Future Teacher Reflected! Join us for our next session and/or view the previous recordings and resources.

The next @ft30uk.bsky.social webinar will be on Thurs 27th Feb at 1pm (UK) and we will be sharing tips on developing fluency with digital tools and resources. More details here bit.ly/ft30ukpage #edtech #altc

Tomorrow's #LTHEchat should be a good one. Join us tomorrow at 8pm to discuss inclusive and accessible learning design, with @leefallin.bsky.social, @tomtomlinson.bsky.social and @gemmaspencer.bsky.social.

So excited to share our new publication in @jepub.bsky.social special issue “On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication and Publishing” edited by @katinalynn.bsky.social! It is available #openaccess here: journals.publishing.umich.edu/jep/article/...

@altuk.bsky.social members! I'll be running a lunchtime #cpd workshop on the 12th February 2025. It's on the topic of programme level design approaches. You can sign up here - www.alt.ac.uk/civicrm/even...

Excited to announce that our latest #CoMOOC co-designed with teacher educators from migrant communities on the Thai Myanmar border will launch on January 6th www.futurelearn.com/courses/unde... enrol for free and share widely

my 75+ text OER Annotated Bibliography on Belonging in Education is live! it's the academic foundation underpinning my sabbatical Belonging Project: bonstewart.com/belonging/th...

if you know of a book/paper on belonging that would enrich this collection, let me know :)

Together with @czernie.bsky.social we are happy to share this Starter Pack of Higher Education for Good authors & artists. Like the book, this #HE4Good Starter Pack represents a diversity of Global North & Global South scholars, all of whom gave their consent to be included here.
go.bsky.app/2ZQo34B

“Often, when we let go a little, students exceed our expectations. When we hold on too tightly to preconceived ideas of what “good” looks like, we confine students to our own perspective, imposing a deficit model. Letting go opens the door to unimagined excellence.”

If you are looking for a little inspiration for healthy hybrid working, career transitions or leadership coaching, my newsletter should be on your radar. Every month I share details of upcoming events, updates on my work, podcasts and resources... . marendeepwell.com?page_id=4148

12 Days of AI 2024 – new version out NOW! The 12 Days of AI is a series of asynchronous activities and discussion prompts designed to help you consider ethics and uses of AI, explore a range of AI tools, and connect with other participants…

12 days of AI launches next week. Always interesting from Chris and colleagues at UAL. totallyrewired.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/1...

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The call for presentations for our 2025 #CESIcon is now open! We are looking forward to welcoming you all in Gaelcholáiste Luimnigh on 1st March. The closing date for submissions is 13th December. #EdChatIe @lcetbschools.bsky.social www.cesi.ie/conferences/...

SETU | Digital Education Conference 2024 at SETU Accelerate Digital Education; Health and Sustainability DEC24 brings educators, researchers, industry, funding agencies and policymakers together to…

DEC24 Last call - submit your abstract deadline tomorrow www.setu.ie/events/dec24 @ our Waterford campus-hope to meet u there 😎

@suebecks.bsky.social has created an #LTHEchat feed here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

What a lineup indeed! Excited to be part of this event; the call for submissions is open ...

Me too please! ☺️

Confelicity is a practice that needs rolled out more in academia

I was just about to ask the same question! “Invalid handle” sounds like a good way of describing my woeful grasp of what’s happening.

We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky!

It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide...

>> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024...

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We are gettin' BIG air this morning!

A new episode of Gettin' Air: The Open Pedagogy Podcast is here, with the two and only @catherinecronin.bsky.social and @czernie.bsky.social!

Higher Education for Good: The Audiobook is out now!

www.spreaker.com/episode/cath...

Just created my profile here! What better way to kick things off than by spotlighting the upcoming Critical EdTech Studies Conference? Check out the details below, and don’t forget to submit your abstract! Thanks, @benpatrickwill.bsky.social and colleagues for organising.

Digital education open bibliography

A curated bibliography of varied and rich freely available resources on digital education with a local flavour bit.ly/Digital_Educ...

#Highered #Edtech #highereducation #globalsouth

Abstract Purpose of Review Here we synthesise key recent (2021–2024) research that aims to understand the experience of autistic people, both staff and students, who navigate the Higher Education (HE) environment. Recent Findings Autistic students and staff continue to experience a lack of flexible, consistent and personalised support within the HE context, and tensions remain between the benefits of disclosure and the discrimination that may result. Significant missed opportunities remain for greater social, emotional and practical supports for autistic members of the HE community. Summary Distinct barriers to both access and ‘flourishing’ for autistic people within HE remain. Personal narratives continue to describe a range of both positive and negative experiences within HE, yet it remains clear that HE may be inherently hostile in its setup, and that it takes a great deal of effort to fight against this.

📢 New Paper alert from our Pedagogy and Education Research Unit that aims to understand the experience of autistic people, both staff and students, who navigate the Higher Education (HE) environment.

You can read the full paper at: doi.org/10.1007/s119...

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How inclusive is your library? Join @drbeth.bsky.social to discuss some of the ways we can all be looking at our libraries with fresh, EDI-focused eyes, finding practical ways that we can use to improve experiences for everyone.
Thurs 7 Nov | 12.30 - 1.30pm
www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...

Reporting guidelines for qualitative research: a values-based approach Evaluative tools for qualitative research need to be developed and designed in a way that allows them to be used by the research community to assess qualitative research on its own terms, and thus ...

New open access paper by me & @ginnybraun.bsky.social on reporting guidelines for qualitative research. We centred qualitative research values in creating these guidelines rather than the more typical expert consensus or consolidation/synthesis: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....