Call for papers! A new special issue of our @ijtel.bsky.social celebrating 25 years of the @iltasky.bsky.social EdTech conference and community has now launched. How has edtech evolved & who or what has been missing from the conversation?
🔗 journal.ilta.ie/index.php/te... #edchatie #edusky #SoTL
The 2026 Student Survey is now open for Group 3️⃣ of institutions! It runs from Feb 17 – Mar 10 🗓️
Students at these colleges can share their views on learning, resources, and campus life.
Take part - your feedback shapes the future! 🖤
#HaveYourSay #StudentSurvey2026 #UCD #DKIT #UG #RCSI
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...
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
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...
“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...
Attending a fabulous workshop facilitated by @ffovet.bsky.social at ean.clr.events/event/137573... at the university of galway this morning.
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!
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...
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...