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Jon Dron uploaded the file heads in clouds January 19, 2023 - 10:22pm

by Midjourney in the style of Magritte
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Jon Dron uploaded the file My keynote slides for Confluence 2023 - Heads in the clouds: being human in the age of cloud... January 19, 2023 - 9:34pm

These are the slides from my keynote today (or, in my land, yesterday) at Confluence 2023, hosted by Amity University in India. It was a cloud computing conference, so quite a way outside my area of greatest expertise, but it gave me a chance to...
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Jon Dron bookmarked Proceedings of The Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association Conference,... January 13, 2023 - 11:07am

These are the proceedings of OTESSA '22. There's a good mix of research/theory and practice papers, including one from me, Rory McGreal, Vive Kumar, and Jennifer Davies arising from our work on trying to use digital landmarks to make e-texts more...

https://conference.otessa.org/index.php/conference/issue/view/3
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Jon Dron published a blog post Two stories about learning to be human from a machine January 12, 2023 - 5:21pm

I asked ChatGPT to write me a story about a robot teaching children to be human. This is what it came up with...Once upon a time, in a far-off land, there lived a robot named Zephyr. Zephyr was unlike any other robot, as it had been programmed...
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Jon Dron uploaded the file Cyborg teacher in a cyborg classroom January 12, 2023 - 5:19pm

Thanks to Midjourney for this!
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Jon Dron bookmarked Hot off the press: Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education (open access) January 4, 2023 - 9:56pm

This might be the most important book in the field of open, distance, and digital education to be published this decade. Congratulations to Olaf Zawacki-Richter and Insung Jung, the editors, as well as to all the section editors, for assembling a...

https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-981-19-2080-6
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Jon Dron uploaded the file Handbook of Open, Distance, and Digital Education cover January 4, 2023 - 9:32pm

Original source: https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-981-19-2080-6 CC BY
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Jon Dron bookmarked My latest paper: On the Misappropriation of Spatial Metaphors in Online Learning January 3, 2023 - 12:50pm

This is a link to my latest paper, published in the closing days of 2022. The paper started as a couple of blog posts that I turned into a paper that nearly made an appearance in the Distance Education in China journal before a last-minute regime...

https://journal.otessa.org/index.php/oj/article/view/32
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Jon Dron published a blog post Some meandering thoughts on 'good' and 'bad' learning December 20, 2022 - 7:38pm

There has been an interesting brief discussion on Twitter recently that has hinged around whether and how people are ‘good’ at learning. As Kelly Matthews observes, though, Twitter is not the right place to go into any depth on this, so...
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Jon Dron bookmarked Loab is showing us the unimaginable future of artificial intelligence - ABC News November 30, 2022 - 12:03pm

This is an awesome article, and I don't care whether the story of Loab is real, or invented as an artwork by the artist (Steph Swanson), or whatever. It is a super-creepy, spine-tingling, thought-provoking horror story that works on so many...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-26/loab-age-of-artificial-intelligence-future/101678206
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Jon Dron bookmarked Brunel University's Integrated Programme Assessment - a neat way to decouple learning and... November 24, 2022 - 11:23am

I have frequently written about the need to decouple learning and credentials, so I love this approach to doing so from Brunel University. It fully decouples learning and credentials by offering ungraded study blocks (in North America the equivalent...

https://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/awards/integrated-programme-assessment/About
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Jon Dron uploaded the file Slides from my ICEEL 22 Keynote, November 20, 2022 November 21, 2022 - 3:03pm

Here are the slides (11.2MB PDF) from my opening keynote yesterday at the 6th International Conference on Education and E-Learning, held online, hosted this year in Japan. In it I discussed a few of the ideas and consequences of them from my...
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Jon Dron bookmarked The Socio-economic Contribution of Religion to American Society: An Empirical Analysis October 30, 2022 - 10:55am

Jesus wept. This is a study from 2016 on the socio-economic contribution of religion to US society, published in the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion. Its baseline estimate, based on revenue of faith-based institutions alone, is...

http://www.religjournal.com/pdf/ijrr12003.pdf
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Jon Dron bookmarked In a nutshell, this is everything that is wrong with the cloud October 29, 2022 - 11:22am

If you use an Adobe product (I don't know why you should - they are over-priced rubbish) you will find that some old Pantone spot colours in your own images (no matter how old) will be replaced with black when you load files using them, unless you...

https://boingboing.net/2022/10/28/adobe-replacing-old-pantone-spot-colors-with-black-when-you-load-files-using-them.html
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Jon Dron bookmarked The wisdom of crowds versus the madness of mobs: An evolutionary model of bias, polarization, and... in the group COMP 650: Social Computing October 29, 2022 - 10:20am

This is a math-heavy, long, but extremely rewarding paper modelling collective behaviour from a dynamic evolutionary perspective, demonstrating (I think very effectively) that collective ignorance and polarization are likely to be amplified by...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26339137221104785
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Jon Dron published a blog post Communities we live in and serve: universities and places October 6, 2022 - 10:54pm

Voluntourism, geoarbitrage, and digital nomadsReasons to be Cheerful is among my first ports of call for news most mornings because I hate to start the day on a negative or banal note. The news is mostly good, but it's never trivial, cute, or...
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Jon Dron bookmarked Social Media Use Linked to Developing Depression Regardless of Personality | University of Arkansas in the group COMP 650: Social Computing October 4, 2022 - 5:00pm

This describes an interesting study that seems to confirm social media use can be harmful no matter who you are though, as the article notes, more research is needed to confirm the findings. Quite a few similar studies have come to quite similar...

https://news.uark.edu/articles/62109/social-media-use-linked-to-developing-depression-regardless-of-personality
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Jon Dron bookmarked So, this is a thing... September 26, 2022 - 3:25pm

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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