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Look what just arrived on my doorstep! #howeducationworks from @au_press is now available in print...
By Jon Dron June 29, 2023 - 1:49pmHard copies and e-book versions of How Education Works are now available, and they are starting to turn up in bookstores. The recommended retail price is CAD$40 but Amazon is selling the Kindle version for a bit less.Here are a few outlets that...Sets, nets and groups revisited
By Jon Dron July 3, 2024 - 10:41pmHere are the slides from a talk I gave earlier today, hosted by George Siemens and his fine team of people at Human Systems. Terry Anderson helped me to put the slides together, and offered some great insights and commentary after the presentation...The artificial curriculum
By Jon Dron 15 July 2023 @ 1:23pmwww.researchgate.net - “Shaping the Future of Education: Exploring the Potential and Consequences of AI and ChatGPT in Educational Settings” by Simone Grassini is a well-researched, concise but comprehensive overview of the state of play for generative...Slides from my webinar, How to Be an Educational Technology: An Entangled Perspective on Teaching
By Jon Dron September 24, 2024 - 1:00pmFor those with an interest, here are the slides from my webinar for Contact North | Contact Nord that I gave today: How to be an educational technology (warning: large download, about 32MB).I will update this post with a link to the recording if...Preprint - The human nature of generative AIs and the technological nature of humanity:...
By Jon Dron 9 October 2023 @ 12:09pmwww.preprints.org - Here is a preprint of a paper I just submitted to MDPI's Digital journal that applies the co-participation model that underpins How Education Works (and a number of my papers over the last few years) to generative AIs (GAIs). I don't know whether it...▶ How Education Works, the audio book: now with beats
By Jon Dron 8 November 2023 @ 3:46pmwww.spreaker.com - My book has been set to music! Many thanks to Terry Greene for converting How Education Works into the second in his inspired series of podcasts, EZ Learning - Audio Books with Beats. There's a total of 15 episodes that can be listened to online,...Research, Writing, and Creative Process in Open and Distance Education: Tales from the Field | Open...
By Jon Dron 20 August 2023 @ 11:16amwww.openbookpublishers.com - Research, Writing, and Creative Process in Open and Distance Education: Tales from the Field is a great new book about how researchers in the field of open, online, and distance education go about writing and/or their advice to newcomers in the...Stories that matter and stories that don't: some thoughts on appropriate teaching roles for...
By Jon Dron 4 January 2024 @ 12:55pmwww.wired.com - Well, this was definitely going to happen. The system discussed in this Wired article is a bot (not available to the general public) that takes characters from the absurdly popular Bluey cartoon series and creates personalized bedtime stories...