Last week I had the opportunity to attend the first Canadian AI-CADEMY AI in Higher Education Conference in Calgary, hosted by Higher Education Strategy Associates. The event brought together educators, researchers, and industry experts to explore the evolving role of artificial intelligence in post-secondary education. There were many take-aways, but perhaps the biggest one for [ ]
I made the decision long ago to personally leave Twitter. I started leaving in 2019 when it became clear that it was becoming a dumpster fire of epic proportions. As I wrote in 2020 as a guest column for the OER20 conference: As we begin to frame our discussion about what it means to work [ ]
How do we share this stuff? I know we used to use blogs to share this practice. How do we find out about practice like this now? The question came from Brian Lamb in the Q A session following my recent presentation on how Open Education can support the development of digital literacies. So this post [ ]
Last week I presented at the 2nd annual B.C. Digital Learning Strategy Forum in Vancouver on how open education can help develop digital literacy skills and competencies among educators and students. The forum is put on by the B.C. Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills with support from my organization, BCcampus (and a huge [ ]
I read an interesting study this morning in the Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning that suggests there is a connection between an instructors choice of learning materials and their choice of teaching practice, and that those who choose to use OER s over commercial resources tend to use more student-centric teaching practices. The study (unfortunately [ ]
One of the (many legitimate) major concerns I often hear when it comes to working with GenAI and LLM s revolves around the copyright status of the content used to train the LLM and whether it is legal or ethical to use LLM s based on the fact that they were trained using large swaths of copyright [ ]
I m coming back to work after what has felt like a very long period away. It started with a 4 month leave of absence in the spring. When I came back to work, our HR folks informed me that I had a lot of accumulated vacation time I needed to use up (there is likely [ ]
A short post to say that a few weeks ago I deleted my Twitter accounts. I mention this mostly because because I know there are some who use it to connect with me directly and may be confused if they try to send me a message and find my accounts gone. I ve been weaning myself [ ]
Back in 2014 in the early days of the BC open textbook project I did some research on what makes a textbook a textbook. What are the pedagogical aides in a textbook that make it different than, say, a reference book or a non-fiction book, and what aides are the most helpful for students. According [ ]
I recently wrote a blog post about generative AI and open education for the BCcampus website. I thought I would repost it here as it represents some of the things we have been considering with regard to open education and generative AI. As an organization that provides funding and support for open educational resource (OER) [ ]