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Tuesday, September 15
Online STEM Education Before COVID-19: An Integrative Review and Thematic Framework for Higher Education
Scholarship on online STEM education in higher education has been dispersed across disciplinary and educational research communities. This integrative literature review synthesized studies published from 2011 through early 2020 to establish a historical baseline for online STEM teaching and learning before the…
doi.orgMaking Generative AI Expectations Visible: Extending the TILT Framework for Transparent Assignment Design
Instructor practices in higher education for setting assignment-level expectations have been meaningfully shaped by the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) Framework (Winkelmes, 2023a, 2023b) which encourages the development of clear guidance for students around each assignment’s purpose, core tasks, and…
doi.orgHold me back
It seems that periodically we get a story about how AI vendors are fearful about the awesome, apocalyptic power of their tech, and for God’s sake, won’t someone stop them. There’s been a recent round of this from Anthropic. I’ve wondered what the intent behind these stories was, since caring about harm or morality has…
blog.edtechie.netThe Tapestry and The Hustle
An essay about figuring things out...
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Monday, September 14
AI Giants Warn It May Be Time to Slow Down
For years, leaders in the artificial intelligence industry have warned that increasingly capable AI systems could eventually become dangerous, all the while continuing to race to build them. Now, their sentiments have changed.
campustechnology.comInternet2 Announces New NET+ Persona Service for Identity Proofing Solutions
NET+ Persona Helps Meet Institution-Wide Identity Verification and Federal Mandates U.S. research and higher education (R&E) institutions routinely face pressure to strengthen their identity proofing standards. Identity proofing is the organizational process of confirming that individuals are who they claim to be…
internet2.eduWhy College Could Matter More than Ever in the AI Era
As students settle back on college campuses across the country, there’s a big question in the ether.
michaelbhorn.substack.comOEGlobal 2026 is four weeks away. Here’s what to expect
OEGlobal26 is less than a month away. As we count down the weeks and then the days, there is still so much to share about the OEGlobal 2026 conference. Here's the latest.
oeglobal.orgAwareness, access, action: designing learning for career agency
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moodle.comHow Gateway Course Optimization Can Support Student Success
Students who cannot complete gateway courses face a significant barrier to succeeding in college, which is why it’s so important to reduce DFWI rates in these courses by optimizing them ... The post How Gateway Course Optimization Can Support Student Success appeared first on Every Learner Everywhere®.
everylearnereverywhere.orgEthical legitimacy and pedagogical activation: generational sensemaking of GenAI in language teaching
doi.orgContext-sensitive learning analytics in open and distance education: Identifying students' online learning behavior patterns in a large-scale Indonesian context
doi.orgCaching Behavior
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.comThe Agentic Professor: Exploring GenAI-Supported Futures in Higher Education
Instructure Appoints Stephan Geering as Chief Privacy Officer to Guide Responsible AI Strategy
Sunday, September 13
New York and Los Angeles Ban Student-Facing AI (For Now). Should Other Schools Follow?
The bans, coupled with a new APA report, signal a shift from rapid AI adoption toward more deliberate evaluation.
edsurge.comTrust by Design: Trust Calibration Through Non-Advisory Socratic Dialogue in Conversational Agents
As conversational AI systems increasingly operate in sensitive domains, the central challenge shifts from usability to trust calibration, ensuring that users rely on systems neither too much nor too little. Systems that provide advice or interpretations risk encouraging inappropriate reliance, particularly when users…
arxiv.orgGetting Back in the Range After Eight and change (months of daily photos in 2026)
The wheels sort of came off the daily photo bus, given the last report was end of April. I mean photos were taken, but somewhere I got off track catching up to the editing, titling, tagging, publishing as May, June, July, and August rolled over. The hole gets deeper the more you spend time staring […]
cogdogblog.comBeyond AI Detection: Designing Courses That Make Student Thinking Visible
AI in Higher Ed The Brown University AI cheating case highlights the limits of AI detection. Learn why better course design, active reading, and social annotation offer a more sustainable […] The post Beyond AI Detection: Designing Courses That Make Student Thinking Visible appeared first on Hypothesis.
web.hypothes.isWhen AI Developers Regulate Themselves
Safety & AI Regulation Should Include Present Harms, Not Just Future Ones
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Saturday, September 12
Click Here to Comply
Perhaps you’ve read Ben Riley’s exposé on AlphaSchool’s “boot camp” -- along with his follow-up in which the school provides even more creepy details on the bizarre eight-week training program that high school students enrolled in the private school must
2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.comPrompts can be poetic
It’s worth thinking about an LLM not as something that writes, but something you write into.
mikecaulfield.substack.comA humorous social-affective instructional style in generative AI pedagogical agents: effects on cognitive load, immediate learning performance, and learner perceptions
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Friday, September 11
AFT, UFT and Microsoft announce ‘National AI Safety & Privacy Standard’ for schools to protect students, families and educators
AFT President Randi Weingarten, United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew, and Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith today announced a “National AI Safety & Privacy Standard” establishing legally enforceable protections to ensure the safety of students, families and educators. The post AFT, UFT…
news.microsoft.comGenerative AI and Extended Reality in Collaborative Architectural Design Education: An Exploratory Studio Study
Architectural design education relies heavily on visual ideation and representation to support collaborative learning in studio environments. Recent advances in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) and extended reality (XR) offer new opportunities for rapid idea exploration and immersive spatial visualization.…
arxiv.orgEfficiency at what cost? Salvaging constructive alignment from the GenAI hype
Ease of use and access are leading educators to adopt generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technologies to augment their practice in areas such as constructive alignment. Drawing on critical and post-digital literature to frame a critical discourse analysis, we interrogated grey literature on utilising GenAI in…
doi.orgConfiguring complex and dynamic determinants of undergraduate students’ continuous usage of learning management system mobile apps: Insights from fsQCA
Research lacks a comprehensive analysis of the factors influencing students’ continuous usage of learning management system (LMS) mobile applications, especially considering the heterogeneity and dynamic psychological changes among undergraduate students. This study employed an integrative stimulus-organism-response…
doi.orgSay Hello to Canvas Lite: Free LMS for Independent Educators
Thursday, September 10
Parents Are Bringing AI to the IEP Meeting. How Should Teachers Respond?
Using AI in IEP meetings can benefit parents and teachers – if done correctly.
edsurge.comAI Giants Report Advances in Mathematical Research
OpenAI has published what it says is an AI-generated solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of mathematics' seven Millennium Prize Problems, while Anthropic has reported separate advances in research mathematics and formal proof generation.
campustechnology.comOpenAI's Astra Model Reaches Critical Cyber Threshold
OpenAI has unveiled GPT-6 Astra, its most capable broadly deployed model and the first system the company says has reached the "Critical" cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework.
campustechnology.comMoodle Premium Certified Partner MediaTouch expands into Malta
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moodle.comCracking Style
Getting LLMs to understand film style has been exhausting, but I’m getting closer
mikecaulfield.substack.comWhen AI Can Write the Paper, Make the Reading Matter
Faculty Spotlight See how Professor Jonathan Rees uses primary sources, social annotation, and Hypothesis in Canvas to create more active, AI resilient history assignments. As higher education continues to wrestle […] The post When AI Can Write the Paper, Make the Reading Matter appeared first on Hypothesis.
web.hypothes.isMIT’s Report on AI in Teaching and Learning
Cross-posted from my Intentional Teaching newsletter. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (better known as MIT) released a report last month sharing the findings and recommendations of their Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research. I’ve read a lot of university reports on AI over the last…
derekbruff.orgEthics Training Agents: Facilitating Group-Based Ethics Education with Role-Playing and Discussion for Ethical Reflection and Exploration
Group-based ethics training for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) students is a complex challenge, requiring substantial resources and expertise. While activity-based teaching methods, such as role-playing and discussions, are commonly employed to simulate real-world scenarios, current practices…
arxiv.orgDo strategies make a difference? Evaluating the impact on video-based learning and student engagement in K-12 education
Explanatory videos are central to digital and blended learning environments, especially in student-centered formats such as flipped classroom. Their instructional value depends not only on video design, but also on learners' ability to regulate their engagement with video-based content. Although research on flipped…
doi.orgAssessing ChatGPT-generated comments for video-based learning content to enhance knowledge and emotional support based on scaffolding theory
doi.orgAcademics’ (Re) construction of teacher identities in the context of technology integration at a South African university
Abstract Integrating technology into higher education teaching is reshaping pedagogical practices and prompting academics to (re)construct their professional identities. This qualitative case study explores how academics at a South African university respond to these changes, drawing on identity theory and the…
doi.orgAnalyzing Educational Video Transcripts with LLMs: Accuracy, Named Entities, and Interpretability
Digital educational media platforms such as YouTube are increasingly used by teachers and learners, creating a growing record of instructional discourse. For educational data mining (EDM) and learning analytics researchers, transcript-derived text offers a scalable entry point for corpus-level analysis, but…
jedm.educationaldatamining.orgModelling Promotion Policies with Survival-Calibrated Agent-Based Simulation: The Promotion Wall and Efficiency-Equity Trade-offs in Engineering Programmes
In prerequisite-heavy engineering programmes, progression rules can redistribute academic risk across time and student groups in ways that are difficult to observe before a reform is implemented. This study uses an agent-based model (ABM) calibrated to longitudinal survival data to examine three progression…
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Wednesday, September 9
Expedite Assessment Workflows with YuJa Verity’s Latest AI-Powered Quiz Generation and Grading
Over the next few weeks, YuJa Verity will begin rolling out exciting new features such as AI quiz generation based on LMS content, brand-new question types for YuJa Verity assessments, and AI-powered automatic grading. The post Expedite Assessment Workflows with YuJa Verity’s Latest AI-Powered Quiz Generation and…
yuja.com"Coder first, advocate second, college student third": The Liminality of Going to College as a Blind Computing Student
Blind or low vision (BLV) students are less likely to graduate from college, particularly in computing. Prior work documents accessibility challenges in high school and college, but we lack understanding of the transition process that produces this "leaky pipeline." To address this, we interviewed ten BLV college…
arxiv.orgThe 6 Strategic Clusters of National Learning Infrastructure
By Juan Camilo Montoya Cofounder & CEO at Edunext This is Part 2 of a two-part series. Part 1 examined why governments are increasingly treating digital learning platforms as Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) rather than software purchases, and what that shift means for procurement, sovereignty, and long-term…
openedx.orgLife beyond ed tech
As part of the DS106 Radio Summer Camp, I did a session with Clint Lalonde on life after ed tech. I’ve been retired for two years and Clint is heading for retirement. We’ve both been in open and ed tech fro a while so thought it would be fun to discuss things outside of that life, and accompany these with record…
blog.edtechie.netAnnouncing Project Helix: A skills platform for the AI era
Today, at Coursera and Udemy’s first global FWD customer event as a combined company, we previewed Project Helix, our new AI-native skills platform — along with new AI-powered capabilities across Coursera and Udemy. The post Announcing Project Helix: A skills platform for the AI era appeared first on Coursera Blog.
blog.coursera.orgAnnouncing 16 new partners and 25 new Professional Certificates for the age of AI
Today at our annual FWD customer event, we announced a major expansion of our partner and instructor ecosystem, helping learners worldwide gain and advance their skills for the AI era. We welcomed 16 leading universities and industry educators to Coursera, thousands of new instructors on Udemy, and introduced 25 new…
blog.coursera.orgAnnouncing Coursera’s 2026 Outstanding Achievement Award winners
Meet the organizations building stronger skills, broader access, sustained engagement, and measurable results through learning. The post Announcing Coursera’s 2026 Outstanding Achievement Award winners appeared first on Coursera Blog.
blog.coursera.orgA Student Told Me They Were Ethically Opposed to AI. Here’s What I Wrote Back.
The post A Student Told Me They Were Ethically Opposed to AI. Here’s What I Wrote Back. appeared first on Packback.
packback.coHow to Inoculate Yourself Against Edtech Psychosis
It’s fifth grade for me this year.
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