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A reminder of the call for abstracts to #Edtech26 in DCU - less than two weeks to submit!

Epistemological fault lines between human and LLM judgements diagram - See the full paper for a textual description

Epistemological fault lines between human and LLM judgements
- a helpful distinction osf.io/preprints/ps...

Enough About AI Enough about the key tech topic of our time for you to feel a bit more confident and informed. Dónal & Ciarán discuss AI, and keep you up to date.

An excellent talk at @uniofgalway.bsky.social today by @donalmulligan.com of @dublincityuni.bsky.social about the importance of trust, dialog, and a critical use of AI for learning in #highered Learn more on podcast.enoughaboutai.com

Call for papers #esai2026 is out now

Call closes on 29th November

ENLIGHT Teaching & Learning Conference 2025 - Uppsala, October 8-10

Headed to the ENLIGHT Teaching & Learning Conference 2025:
Playfulness for the Future of Higher Education #enlight #edusky #heie
I’ll be presenting (yes, with a playful twist) along with other colleagues from @uniofgalway.bsky.social
onlineexpo.com/en/enlight-2...

Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI - Creative Commons CC Signals © 2025 by Creative Commons is licensed under CC BY 4.0 Creative Commons (CC) today announces the public kickoff of the CC signals project, a new preference signals framework designed to inc...

“CC signals will allow dataset holders to signal their preferences for how their content can be reused by machines based on a set of limited but meaningful options shaped in the public interest” creativecommons.org/2025/06/25/i...

Critical studies of ed-tech are becoming increasingly popular ... but how can they be a useful force for change? New report outlines 8 main areas that the CSET community needs to get discussing! 🧵

bridges.monash.edu/articles/rep...

EAN 2025 Registration - European Access Network Conference 2025 The Ean Conference 2025, June 10th and 11th 2025, is hosted by the University of Galway Access Centre and Office of the Dean of Students, and supported by the Office of the Vice President for Equality...

Attending a fabulous workshop facilitated by @ffovet.bsky.social at ean.clr.events/event/137573... at the university of galway this morning.

Navigating through the beyond blended resources – some scenarios The Jisc Beyond Blended web resource which I have been working on with Helen Beetham, Sarah Knight, Elizabeth Newall and Lou McGill, is quite a substantial resource. As well as our 2 research repor…

On the way to #edtech25 to share reflections on engaging with the JISC Beyond Blended resources as supported by @sheilmcn.bsky.social, @helenbeetham.bsky.social & @sheilmcn.bsky.social & @sarahjknight.bsky.social in our piloting. Explore further: howsheilaseesit.net/uncategorize... #highered

This week, I’ll mostly be thinking all things #edtech and #sotl at the @iltasky.bsky.social annual #edtech25 conference in Waterford. And reminding folks of @ijtel.bsky.social for your research dissemination, with new short reports accepted to align with practitioner papers. #highered #edusky

Maybe Notion is worth a look. or Raindrop?
www.notion.com
raindrop.io

Excited to welcome @lindacq.bsky.social and @anetqedu.bsky.social and other colleagues to @uniofgalway.bsky.social for our #ErasmusPlus #CUTIE project meeting! We’re diving into co-creation with students, the impact of GenAI in education, and how we can respond together. More at cutie.unak.is

Sun shining on a life buoy looking out to Galway bay

Last day of semester 2 live sessions. Irish exam weather.

Grateful to Niall Flaherty for opening an invitation to attend the brilliant #teachmeet sessions within the College of Science & Engineering at @universityofgalway.bsky.social this week. So much good practice to learn from. Thanks to all the presenters also.

The Higher Education Authority and National Forum invite contributions from all of Ireland's institutes of higher education on projects, innovations, research, and policies related to Gen AI in teaching and learning.

hub.teachingandlearning.ie/mapping-gene...

A very interesting curriculum design - highly ambitious to implement at an institutional level, rather than just in online course design, which is the only context where I had heard about block teaching, previously.

A recruitment process is underway for the appointment of President of University of Galway.

Read more and apply here: perrettlaver.com/university-o...

The poem “For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper” by Joseph Fasano, shared with students as part of a course’s AI policy discussion.

A fantastic resource!
Facilitating Focus Groups in 360 video created by @tundeva.bsky.social doi.org/10.25416/NTR...

New opportunities for postgraduate researchers in digital teaching and learning in higher education to contribute to scholarship…

Ten Considerations for Generative Artificial Intelligence Adoption in Irish Higher Education - feedback sought hub.teachingandlearning.ie/ten-consider...

Irish AI Advisory Council advice paper on education (Feb 2025) assets.gov.ie/319845/e1eaf... “much of the narrative around generative AI … has been around plagiarism detection. It is now clear that detection
methods do not and will not work“.

A special edition on Third Space in Higher Education, in the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education is just out: journal.aldinhe.ac.uk/index.php/jl...

Yes, it’s great to see it continuing year on year! Your guidance made a lasting impact on ONL21 for me! How fortunate was I!

Register for #ONL251 #ONL251 will start in March 2025 and run for 12 weeks. Join the fun!   “Open” by Monica’s Dad is licensed under CC BY 2.0 .

An open online course about open online teaching and learning
#onl251 starts again - find out more, and sign up to join in. See
www.opennetworkedlearning.se/sign-up-your...

Contribute Events and Open Assets for OEWeek Every year since 2012, institutions, organizations, and individuals worldwide spend one week in March sharing, discussing, and celebrating their contributions to the ideals of Open Education.

Put in your diary 🗓️: Open Education Week 25
oeweek.oeglobal.org

Also consider presenting and/or sharing your own work:
oeweek.oeglobal.org/contribute/

An AI international safety report 2025 was published this week; the culmination of work by 100 experts to advance a shared understanding of risks. One conclusion, “AI does not just happen to us. Choices made by people determine its future”.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/679a0c...

Irish Learning Technology Association Annual General Meeting (AGM) Join us for the ILTA AGM where we announce 2025 plans and hold elections for key executive roles.

Calling all members! Join us on Tuesday, 25 February for the Irish Learning Technology Association Annual General Meeting (AGM) where we announce 2025 plans and hold elections for key executive roles.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/irish-lear... #heie

Good advice to keep in mind, on 3 dimensions, when setting assessments: to move beyond “simple prohibitions or permissions and begin to address three critical dimensions: the feasibility of enforcement, the preservation of authentic learning, and the emotional wellbeing of teachers and students”.