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Gabi Witthaus @gabiwitthaus.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

New blog post by Elaine Chase for the #CoMOOCs project. Reporting on a webinar for the Understanding Education in Conflict and Crisis Settings MOOC, and reflecting on the implications of #USAID withdrawal. reflect.ucl.ac.uk/learning-and...

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The Politics of ‘Diversity Scholarships’: Launching a Teacher Professional Development Pathway for Educators from Myanmar – CoMOOCs for Transformative Professional Development

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Kay Guccione @kayguccione.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Open access collaboratively co-authored, 111-page guide to the doctoral supervision process, packed with insights and advice for both doctoral students, and new and experienced doctoral supervisors. #ResearchCulture #ResearcherDevelopment #PhDSupervision supervisingphds.wordpress.com/2025/02/11/t...

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The GO-GN Guide to Doctoral Supervision: Insights and Strategies for Success

By Rob Farrow, senior researcher at the Institute of Educational Technology, The Open University (UK) and Co-Director of GO-G, and Michele Jacobsen, Professor in the Learning Sciences at the Univer…

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ReDICo @redico.eu · 03/02/2025

📢 #CfP "Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality" - Online Conference Join us 23-24 June 2025 Submit by 28 Feb 2025 Keynotes: Valérie Schafer, @sesamescholar.bsky.social, @ethanz.bsky.social, Ramesh Srinivasan hub.redico.eu/call-for-pap...

“Digital Pasts and Futures: Internet Histories, Digital Interculturality and Reimagining Digitality”

Call-for-Papers: The Fourth ReDICo (Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively) Conference
Online, 23-24 June 2025

In this conference we would like to bring together scholars who engage with internet histories, digital futures and digital interculturality so as to initiate a discussion regarding the reimagining of digitality, not least its relationship to interculturality. We are, thus, interested in wide and interdisciplinary approaches that go beyond the presentism that often marks media and communication studies, while also engaging with alternative visions of how digitality can be construed, not least from an intercultural perspective.

For more details see: https://hub.redico.eu/call-for-papers/111/digital-pasts-and-futures-internet-histories-digital-interculturality-and-reimagining-digitality-conference-online-23-24-june-2025

Please send an abstract (250 words) of your intended paper to: redico@uni-jena.de by 28 February 2025. It is intended that a selection of the papers presented will be published following a peer review process in book form, funding pending, with the transcript Publishing House in the Series “Studies in Digital Interculturality”. The conference is without fees, completely online and is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF).

Keynote speakers that have already been confirmed include Prof. Valérie Schafer (University of Luxembourg), Associate Prof. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (Aarhus University), Prof. Ethan Zuckerman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) and Prof. Ramesh Srinivasan (University of California, Los Angeles).

apl. Prof. Dr. Fergal Lenehan and PD Dr. Luisa Conti
(Friedrich Schiller University of Jena)

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Gabi Witthaus @gabiwitthaus.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Audrey Watters always nails it. In the face of all the horrors she points to, the comment from @dougbelshaw.com provides a glimmer of hope: "I do remain hopeful for open source LLMs trained on publicly-auditable data".

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Gabi Witthaus @gabiwitthaus.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

"Now is the time... to imagine a world in which government supports health and education for all, where we all live without fear, knowing that our interconnected lives are equally valuable."

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alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social @alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

#ElonMusk is working to shut down the foreign aid agency #USAid, the world’s largest single donor. It disbursed in 2023 $72bn of assistance on everything from women’s health in conflict zones to access to clean water, Aids treatments etc www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #DonaldTrump #Republicans

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Elon Musk says USAid is ‘beyond repair’ and he is working to shut it down

Billionaire says in social media talk that Donald Trump agrees the world’s largest single donor should be shut down

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Gabi Witthaus @gabiwitthaus.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Great conference theme this year: Compassion, collegiality and communities in higher education: Challenging the Discourse.

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Gabi Witthaus @gabiwitthaus.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Join our webinar on Friday 31st Jan - we'll be talking about our latest CoMOOC, co-designed by UCL and InEd in Thailand/ Myanmar: Understanding Education in Conflict and Crisis Settings. reflect.ucl.ac.uk/learning-and... @eileenkennedy01.bsky.social @thinksitthrough.bsky.social

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Webinar – Understanding Education in Conflict and Crisis Settings – CoMOOCs for Transformative Professional Development

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Aras Bozkurt @arasbozkurt.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Call for Chapters: Rethinking Education and Agency in the Age of Human-Generative AI Interaction (The call is open until February 15, 2025) www.igi-global.com/publish/call...

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Call for Chapters: Rethinking Education and Agency in the Age of Human-Generative AI Interaction | IGI Global Scientific Publishing

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Gabi Witthaus @gabiwitthaus.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This co-designed MOOC aims to support teachers working in contexts of conflict, crisis and #displacement. Co-designed with teachers in refugee camps and migrants learning centres on the Thai Myanmar border.

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Allison Littlejohn @allisonl.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

This free online course is offered by @uclknowledgelab @IOE_London colleagues Diana Laurillard & @eileenkennedy01.bsky.social Co-designed with teachers from Thai-Myanmar, building on work with teachers in Lebanon, it features a chatbot supporting reflection www.futurelearn.com/courses/unde...

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@suebecks @suebecks.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

For those educators just joining Bluesky, I have a List containing a growing collection of educators in higher education. May help you identify interesting [eople to extend your new network. Follow the link to access bsky.app/profile/did:... #LTHEchat

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Gabi Witthaus @gabiwitthaus.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

I am delighted to share that the CoMOOC, Understanding Education in Conflict & Crisis settings by UCL + Inclusive Ed Foundation Thailand, is now on FutureLearn! We will be announcing a facilitated run soon! #codesign #MOOC #refugees #teachereducation www.futurelearn.com/courses/unde...

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Understanding Education in Conflict and Crisis Settings - Online Course

Discover tools to support learners in conflict and crisis settings and the teaching strategies that consider their complex needs, from University College London.

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Sally Brown @profsallybrown.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Next Wednesday 8/1/25 it’s the 1st all BlueSky Tweetchat on aiming for more authentic feedback in HE led by @kaysambell.bsky.social and me! If you’ve never tried it, the format is simple: one blogpost in advance, 6 questions at intervals, 1hour, lots of global participation&fun! Join us at 8pm GMT

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Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Some really good news for the start of 2025 from #Shropshire

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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

For those worried about fake papers polluting systematic reviews, I've an article up today on efforts to make it easier to spot untrustworthy work. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Giant study finds untrustworthy trials pollute gold-standard medical reviews

Two-year collaboration aims to create tools to help counter the tide of flawed research.

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Gabi Witthaus @gabiwitthaus.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This book by @drmarkcarrigan.bsky.social comes with its own experimental custom GPT companion (available for a short period) - nice idea!

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Gabi Witthaus @gabiwitthaus.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Thought-provoking blog post from Maha (as always) on accountability in the use of GenAI - I especially like the references to anticipatory and remedial accountability. And the "micro-survey" is still open. It challenged me to think about my own accountability practices.

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Gabi Witthaus @gabiwitthaus.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Helpful social justice theorisation of #refugee integration in terms of the #capabilities approach

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IRIS @irisbirmingham.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

✨ A year-in-review thread from IRIS ✨ We asked our researchers to pick just one publication from 2024 and share why it stands out for them. Here's what they chose and why! 🧵 #migration #refugees #socialsciences #diversity #research

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Gabi Witthaus @gabiwitthaus.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Am loving listening to the audio of HE for Good! The intro by @catherinecronin.bsky.social and @czernie.bsky.social highlights what a tour de force it is - such wide-ranging authors, genres and topics. The common themes are care for the entire HE community, hope and imagination for a better future.

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Gabi Witthaus @gabiwitthaus.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Another great piece by Audrey Waters - this one pointing out how the uncritical use of AI in education results in surveillance and mindless speed being disguised as care.

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Refugee Action @refugeeaction.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

We stand with many others urging the Home Office to keep processing asylum claims by people from Syria. Through our services, we're hearing first-hand how fearful the community is that they may be asked to leave. Many have already waited over six months, unable to work or rebuild their lives.

Text overlaid on an image of people marching with the Syrian flag says: Why the government must restart processing asylum claims from Syria

Text overlaid on an image from Syria says: Many people from Syria are celebrating the end of the authoritarian regime

But many do not feel safe to return. There is no stable government, and much of the infrastructure is still destroyed.

Text overlaid on an image of a map of Syria says: Syrian asylum claims are complex and can relate to more than the atrocities committed by the Assad regime.

Pausing asylum claims will leave many people from Syria at risk of human rights violations and feeling distressed about their future here.

Text overlaid on a photo from Syria says: Home Office data shows that more than 5000 people from Syria are waiting for a decision on their asylum claim.

One in two have been waiting for longer than six months, unable to work or rebuild their lives here.

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Gabi Witthaus @gabiwitthaus.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Thanks Bonni for sharing this fab, extensive list of podcasts on wide-ranging topics (including #edtech and #highered) from Bryan Alexander! (When does he sleep?)

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Gabi Witthaus @gabiwitthaus.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Apropos the reopening of Notre Dame, here's a fantastic thread about medieval cathedrals.

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Gabi Witthaus @gabiwitthaus.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Great set of strategies outlined by engineering academics, including "Work with instructional design teams to include Problem-Based Learning (PBL), Challenge-Based Learning (CBL), and Problem-Oriented Learning (POL) to adopt AI."

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Gabi Witthaus @gabiwitthaus.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Thanks Martin for a very succinct and persuasive defence of Bluesky for anyone who is still doubting. (Includes the caveat - it's ok for now; that doesn't mean it won't go all X on us eventually.) So for now, I'm delighted to be here with my tribe(s). Long may it last.

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