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ABC Learning Design An accessible guide to ABC Learning Design, showcasing its rapid, collaborative method and global adaptations that support innovative, flexible curriculum design.

BOOK: From Clive Young, Nataša Perović, Leo Havemann and Karen Shackleford-Cesare: 'ABC Learning Design: Active, blended, connected and beyond' introduces ABC to a new audience, adding insights from institutions that have localised and implemented the method in diverse contexts.

A student sits on the floor with their back against the end of a large bookshelf stretching up out of the frame of the photo. They have their knees up, and resting on their lap is a red laptop which they are looking at. In the background is another bookshelf taking up most of the image, crammed full of different coloured library books.

One week until this #LDNOpenFest session💡

Open Education Resources Today
🗓️ Wednesday 22 April
🕑 3 - 4:30pm
📍 Online

An expert panel will showcase approaches to supporting, producing and providing open education resources.

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We're so delighted to have published this book open access with the incredible team at @uclpress.bsky.social

ABC Learning Design An accessible guide to ABC Learning Design, showcasing its rapid, collaborative method and global adaptations that support innovative, flexible curriculum design.

Congratulations to @clive-young.bsky.social
@natasaperovic.bsky.social @leohavemann.bsky.social, Karen Shackleford-Cesare and all of the contributors to ABC Learning Design: Active, blended, connected and beyond which has published today! Grab your #OpenAccess copy: uclpress.co.uk/book/abc-lea...

ABC Learning design book is out! We hope you find it useful. Happy downloading! @uclpress.bsky.social @leohavemann.bsky.social @clive-young.bsky.social @timneumann.bsky.social @eileenkennedy01.bsky.social @jostroud.bsky.social @jus-saying.bsky.social @jourde.bsky.social

LTHEchat 360: Through the Prism: Illuminating Educational Impact with Brookfield’s Four Lenses Join us on Bluesky for #LTHEchat on Wednesday 15th March at 8pm GMT with guest Danielle Hinton (@hintondm.bsky.social to discuss Brookfield’s Four Lenses! Introduction Educators in Higher Education…

LTHEchat 360: Through the Prism: Illuminating Educational Impact with Brookfield’s Four Lenses lthechat.com/2026/04/12/l...

Green GAIN from Reform UK. Changes w/ 2025

Hang it in the Louvre.

Proposals for #OER26 - hey
due on Monday
don't delay
hope to see you in MK

I made a timelapse last night and caught some of the Perseids

OER26 Call for proposals now open

The #OER26 call for proposals is now open. Submissions may address themes such as social transformation, justice and equity, pedagogical innovation, care in open practice, future-oriented perspectives, and creative or experimental approaches. buff.ly/i5jOf70 #altc #OER

“But it’s not on the news” is a bleat across social media and commentary.

The billionaire classes have bought ‘the news’. It’s propaganda.

It’s on my news. Rather like the need for middle powers to regroup so too with news sources. Try other sources. Be surprised by those who are reporting ‘it’.

I have discovered that there is a special type of mango known as honey mango which is extremely delicious

also extra points for the title

Join us for #ALTC25 Revisited, an online event bringing back the key themes, thought-provoking sessions, and vibrant discussions that made ALTC25 unforgettable, and inviting presenters and participants to take the conversation further. Register now: buff.ly/oLDkY0E

I think they mean 'normal' as in, like a human, likes kids, can laugh and joke, refreshingly not some sort of hatemonger, or even a bot that says 'sorry nothing decent in the world will ever be possible but at least i am a bot, not a hatemonger' - not to take away from his excellent comms

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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I really hope people on this app who get it are talking to people offline who do not still see this huge issue spiralling yet

TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose

BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy

I don't think read 'everything' is very helpful advice - and while people say this is the great thing about AI summaries, i also think we already have summaries of articles, they are called abstracts, and they are not very long but give a good sense of whether the article is helpful. Good luck!

Once you have more of a sense of what specifically you are more interested in you can do a more targeted search. Then once you have a collection of stuff you think is probably relevant then read the abstracts to decide if you include the article or not.

I would say look for some review articles that synthesise findings and read those to get a sense of what the main areas are that people are interested in, also sort your results by how highly cited and read the ones with a lot of citations.

If you do use wordpress people can subscribe to it so they get an email when you add a new post. So in that sense it's not so different from substack which promotes itself as a newsletter site but really it's also a blog that sends out emails.

spot how many of these risks are due to/powered by the tech industry

source: www.weforum.org/publications...

How Canada Actually Picks Supreme Court Judges (It's Worse Than You Think) #government #shorts YouTube video by Tod Maffin

#Canadian
#Shade

This is an astonishing admission from Ollie Ilott, the Director General for AI in the British government. He says you wouldn't want an opt-out from AI training to be too easy to use, because the…... This is an astonishing admission from Ollie Ilott, the Director General for AI in the British government. He says you wouldn't want an opt-out from AI training to be too easy to use, because the prim...

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If you want to vote for 'classic Tory' you have the perfectly good option of Labour

open plan is planning to fail

Inside Higher Ed The culture of fear created by Senator McCarthy and others served to silence ideas and beliefs that they disagreed with. The future is yet unwritten, but by understanding what political repression looked like then, we can recognize it and figure out how to fight it now. As Mandel noted, once we see censorship for what it is, it's our responsibility to get that across to the American people. The next two columns in this series will focus on the organizations and people that made McCarthyism as effective as it was: the academic elite who worked hand in glove with the rank and file to ensure that, what the government started, higher education would finish.

Kudos to @insidehighered.com for giving @bakerdphd.bsky.social a column. I couldn’t be more excited for what’s she’s choosing to do with it.

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