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A/B testing shows that Pavlovian gamification does not work
10 uncomfortable truths about the con that is University rankings
Oculus Rift: Freezers, smilers, grippers, swayers, screamers and freak-outs – resistance is futile
My tech prediction for 2015 - two small letters…
Why Finland is finished as role model in education
Swearing in conference presentations works!
7 reasons: Why we need to kill boring ‘learning objectives’!
Sir Ken Robinson: ‘Creative’ with the truth?
VR and consciousness – some truly freakish ideas
Is the ‘closed’ mindset of the Open Educational Resources community its own worst enemy?
7 reasons why kids right to have went apeshit over this GCSE maths question
Kohlberg's moralising and its revival - character education
10 reasons why Salman Khan is a more important educational theorist & practitioner than Ken Robinson or Sugata Mitra
ASU wants to be a new sort of University and they're getting there
10 challenging ways to get the best from your SMEs
Reading to Your Children Makes No Difference
Immersive Games Beats Classroom in Maths
7 'Bad Language' Habits in Learning
Kinect for Christmas: future unleashed!
Abandon lectures: increase attendance, attitudes and attainment
We have fetshised 'Leadership', we're all leaders now, rendering the word meaningless
10 reasons why 2015 is the year of the MOOC
How I got blocked by Tom Peters - you must bow to the cult of Leadership or be rejected as an apostate
Why the tablets in schools debacle is over
10 amazing ways Blockchain could be used in education
Do we really need all of this 'mentoring' malarkey’?
Could AI replace teachers? 10 ways it could?
Little tribute to Tim Berners-Lee from the learning community
Wikipedia’s bot army - shows us the way in governance of AI
Has L&D been hijacked by ‘identity’ politics?
Blockchain looking more and more like a ball and chain?
10 recommendations on HE from OEB Mid-Summit (Reykjavik)
47% of jobs will be automated... oh yeah...10 reasons why they won't
Could this be the worst piece of online learning ever? Let me explain why it may well be…
Agile training at Jurys Inn– used AI to produce in minutes not months
Voice is here - online learning has been traditionally 'nil by mouth' but not now....
Summarising learning materials using AI - paucity of data, abundance of stuff
OEB Berlin… AI, video, learning analytics, data, and schnapps!
Video for learning –15 things the research says – some may shock you…
Wellness, Happiness and Mindfulness - Holy Trinity of bogus therapy culture
100 learning theorists... 2500 years of learning theory...
Pixel is a powerful, portal, personal pocketful of AI....
Emotion in Learning Experience Design - Norman's 3 facets; Visceral, Behavioural and Reflective...
Engagement - most used yet most misunderstood word in learning?
Lifelong learning is a conceit. Life is not a course. To live is to learn
Starlink changes everything. It may be the most important form of learning technology of the century
Why is ‘AI and Ethics’ work mostly a waste of time?
Disabling video may be better for online teaching and collaboration
Henry Giroux
Victoria Marsick on 'Informal' and 'incidental' learning. Technology (EPSS, LXPs, LRSs, AI, Data) now implementing her ideas...
Lakoff - embodied and emotional mind - man of metaphor
Damasio & Immordino‐Yang - Role of emotion in learning
Krug Don't make us think
20 reasons why the Metaverse may not work out as we think it will
Philosopher of the Multiverse - Baudrillard
Metaverse - a look into the possible abyss
Is handwriting better than typing for note taking? Surprisingly, it's not!
Futurelearn may not be a going concern
Microsoft launched ChatGPT-3, but Google also have a great hand, in fact they have a bird in the hand...
AI and learning is about to get a massive boost
PedAIgogy- new era of knowledge and learning where AI changes everything
Personalised tutors - a dumb rich kid is more likely to graduate from college than a smart poor one
Can machines have empathy and other emotions?
Is Ethics doing more HARM than GOOD in AI for learning?
University enrols two AI students - fascinating experiment
Speech with ChatGPT.... honestly, it is amazing
Are the LMS & VLE dead! Accenture and Udacity draw new line in sand
Turchin's terrifying predictions
Context matters? Yes and AI has made its move...
This blind trial paper raises some serious questions on assessment
Astonishing figures and insights from Harvard Undergraduate Survey on Generative AI
Has ChatGPTo1 just stolen 'Critical Thinking' from humans?
Realistic dialogue is here....
Learning theorist gets Nobel Prize
Google Go Nuclear
AI school opens - learners are not good or bad but fast and slow