I was offered the opportunity at the start of this year to write a short position statement on the subject of generative AI literacy for a potential OER collection of articles, and penned the following 500 words in response. Since then I’ve been back down … Continue reading A stable concept of GenAI literacy could be harmful
The call for nominations for the Apereo Foundation Board of Directors is now open. If you like open source software and higher education, then this might be the opportunity you’ve been looking for! This round of elections is my 6th since I joined the Apereo … Continue reading Stepping down by not away from Apereo
A student scholarship fund has been established at TRU Open Learning in Irwin’s name. If you wish to contribute to this memorial you can find the form at: https://www.tru.ca/irwin I’ve tried to write this a few times now, in bits and scraps. Initially I was … Continue reading Irwin DeVries
A few months back I went to see King Creosote (aka Kenny Anderson) with my pal Simon. It was a matinee performance in the Queens Hall in Edinburgh and I found myself right up leaning on the barrier in front of the stage (I don’t … Continue reading More Fife
Okay, so one of the reasons that I love working across domains and with a variety of different kinds of organisations is that I get this glorious firehose of different ideas and information which, more often than not, bleed into each other in the best … Continue reading Federation games
Like a few others I am signed up for the Middlebury Digital Detox and unsurprisingly the theme this year is generative AI (I’m also signed up for the TRU one – register now if you haven’t already). I’m loving the aesthetic of the site which … Continue reading Welcome to the Kingdom of Fife
You know sometimes you get that moment of delicious friction when two small ideas rub up against each other and you see something new that you realise should have been obvious all along….? One of the benefits of my little self-imposed sabbatical is that I … Continue reading Why we don’t have good edtech decision making frameworks: It’s a bigger problem than HE
As with #OER23 I’m going to say here that I plan to write more blog posts about #ReclaimOpen in due course (yet to happen for #OER23) but I want to capture a few key thoughts and takeaways from the event before they slip away from … Continue reading #ReclaimOpen – reclaiming human scale
I did an invited talk yesterday for the kick off day of the OTESSA conference, part of the larger Canadian Congress conference. It was a lovely experience, not least because I was introduced by Connie Blomgren from AU, and Jon Dron was also in the … Continue reading 5 Things You Need to Know Before You Buy Edtech #OTESSA23
We got the horrible news a few days ago that the BC Court of Appeal has decided to dismiss Ian Linkletter’s appeal of his anti-SLAPP application, and Proctorio will be able to move ahead with suing him. If you haven’t been following this case, then … Continue reading If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area
