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Jon Dron bookmarked So, this is a thing... 5 hours ago

Students are now using AIs to write essays and assignments for credit, and they are (probably) getting away with it. This particular instance may be fake, but the tools are widely available and it would be bizarre were no one to be using them for...

https://twitter.com/petergyang/status/1573489316147306496?s=20&t=XPjr54KmAWmcqnrJ79eMvA
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Jon Dron published a blog post A beautifully expressed letter about the town of Athabasca, and Athabasca University's place... September 1, 2022 - 12:26pm

Over the coming days I will be posting some of the comments provided by AU staff in our recent letter to the Albertan minister for advanced education and to our own board of governors. However, I think that this one deserves its own post. It has...
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Jon Dron published a blog post Over 150 AU staff signed this letter to the Government of Alberta and AU's Board of Governors August 30, 2022 - 10:02pm

Today I sent this letter from staff at Athabasca University to the Albertan Advanced Education Minister and Board of Governors of the University, cc'd to various government & opposition politicians in Alberta, and a few selected journalists:I...
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Jon Dron published a blog post Three reasons why Athabasca University's leaders must never be made to live in Athabasca August 16, 2022 - 2:07pm

I've said this before but it needs more emphasis. In the past week or so it has become increasingly clear that the real agenda of the Albertan government is not to forcibly move 500 unwilling AU staff to the town of Athabasca. That's just smoke...
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Jon Dron published a blog post We shape our buildings and, afterwards, our buildings shape us: some lessons in how not to build an... August 14, 2022 - 1:42pm

This is an analysis of the problems that currently beset Athabasca University and a plea to prevent it but, more generally, it is a discussion of the ways that the decisions we have made affect who we are, and how we develop.
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Jon Dron uploaded the file Athabasca High Street August 14, 2022 - 1:32pm

Athabasca's main High Street, at peak season.
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Jon Dron bookmarked My latest paper, "Learning, Technology, and Technique", now online in the Canadian... August 10, 2022 - 7:52pm

This is my latest paper, Learning, Technology, and Technique, in the current issue of the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology (Vol. 48 No. 1, 2022). Essentially, because this was what I was invited to do, the paper shrinks down over...

https://cjlt.ca/index.php/cjlt/article/view/28315
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Jon Dron published a blog post Thanks @demetriosnAB for your generous offer. We completely misunderstood that you wanted to help... August 8, 2022 - 9:58am

Dear Demetrios NicolaidesYou say,“I’ve offered to provide any kind of assistance that the university needs. They haven’t asked for any.”This is very kind! I am sorry for all the very, very, very bad thoughts I have been...
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Jon Dron bookmarked We need help: Athabasca University is facing an existential threat from the government of Alberta August 5, 2022 - 4:27pm

This video from Peter Scott, president of Athabasca University, is a clear, eloquent, and passionate plea to save our university and the education of its students from imminent destruction at the hands of a brutal, self-serving, short-sighted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEA67AadO54
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Jon Dron published a blog post The limits and limitations of business requirements July 28, 2022 - 4:09pm

Athabasca University's Digital Governance Committee recently got into a heated debate about whether and why we should support Zoom. It was a classic IT manageability vs user freedom debate and, as is often the way in such things, the suggested...
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Jon Dron bookmarked Can GPT-3 write an academic paper on itself, with minimal human input? July 2, 2022 - 12:52pm

Brilliant. The short answer is, of course, yes, and it doesn't do a bad job of it. This is conceptual art of the highest order. This is the preprint of a paper written by GPT-3 (as first author) about itself, submitted to "a well-known...

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03701250/document
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Jon Dron bookmarked Can GPT-3 write an academic paper on itself, with minimal human input? July 2, 2022 - 12:52pm

Brilliant. The short answer is, of course, yes, and it doesn't do a bad job of it. This is conceptual art of the highest order. This is the preprint of a paper written by GPT-3 (as first author) about itself, submitted to "a well-known...

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03701250/document
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Jon Dron published a blog post Weary, old, a little broken, but not letting go of the dream: edtech in the 21st Century June 30, 2022 - 10:09pm

Anne-Marie Scott joins a long line of weary edtech illuminati who have recently expressed sadness and disillusion about life, the universe, and, in particular, the edtech industry (she has plans to do something about that - good plans - but her...
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Jon Dron bookmarked Ernst & Young fined $100 million after employees cheated in exams June 28, 2022 - 11:24pm

Not just any exams: ethics exams. These are the very accountants who are supposed to catch cheats. I guess at least they'll understand their clientele pretty well. But how did this happen? There are clues in the article: "Many of the employees...

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/28/1108044858/accounting-giant-ernst-young-admits-its-employees-cheated-on-ethics-exams
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Jon Dron published a blog post #AthaU22 - may your journey be rich, gentle, and challenging June 17, 2022 - 4:20pm

In the convocation prayer offered by Elder Maria Campbell each year for Athabasca University graduands, she asks for blessing that their journeys be "rich, gentle, and challenging". I can't think of a more perfect wish than this. Each word...
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Jon Dron uploaded the file Solving The Wrong Problems: Why Online Education Is and Must Be Different from In-Person Education... June 15, 2022 - 2:42pm

These are the slides from my invited talk at the 11th International Conference on Education andManagement Innovation (ICEMI 2022), June 11th. The talk went down well - at least, I was invited to repeat the performance at a workshop (where I gave a...
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Jon Dron uploaded the file There is no such thing as online learning: why in-person teaching methods fail online, and what to... June 15, 2022 - 10:04am

Here are my slides from the Workshop on International Trends in Education - WITE 2022 held in Budapest and online, which was all about responses and issues arising from COVID-19. Though I missed the start (it started about midnight here in...
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Jon Dron bookmarked Interesting product: Bionic Reading May 19, 2022 - 10:45am

Having spent a while researching the literature on ways that visual landmarks and other text enhancements (and deliberate obfuscations) affect comprehension and recall, I am a little sceptical about the underlying theory for this patented product...

https://bionic-reading.com/about/
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Jon Dron uploaded the file Investigating the effects of computer-generated contextual landmarks on short-term recall of... May 17, 2022 - 7:22pm

These are the slides from our presentation at OTESSA 2022 yesterday, describing our somewhat delayed project to try to make the content of e-texts more memorable by inserting artificial landmarks. We are building an e-reading system to...
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Jon Dron published a blog post Informal Learning in Digital Contexts: another chapter by me and @terguy from Springer's... April 19, 2022 - 5:14pm

This is the second of two chapters by Terry Anderson and me (the other being on the topic of pedagogical paradigms, that I shared a week or two ago) from Springer's Handbook of Open, Distance, and Digital Education.The 'paradigms' chapter more or...

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