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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

What should an international research agenda for critical studies of "edtech" look like? After running a critical edtech conference this year, a few of us have mapped 6 key areas for further research in a brief new report zenodo.org/records/1767...

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Critical Edtech Studies. Defining the field; envisioning the future. 2025 Position statement after the inaugural edition of the European Conference on Critical Edtech Studies (ECCES).

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

"If we do not act, we risk seeing the development of a fully automated loop in which assignments are generated by AI with the support of a LMS, AI-generated content is submitted...on behalf of the student, and AI-driven metrics evaluate the work" www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

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Statement on Educational Technologies and AI Agents

The following statement of endorsement was drafted by the MLA Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching. The Executive Council approved it as an MLA statement in October 2025.Software, specifically le...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Excellent piece - it's really hard to "follow the data" in education and it should not be so "We often talk about transparency in higher education, yet the private actors that are in the business of university data collection operate almost entirely in the dark."

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

"we now have a rush to either strip-mine university resources or capitalize on university prestige. Education technology (or Ed Tech) has been leading this charge since long before the AI craze" 💯 this is excellent

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Epic trawl through the state of the AI in education scientific literature "claiming to measure the impact of AI on learning outcomes" and finding it's mostly very bad, overblown, or even based on scientific malpractice ht @benjaminjriley.bsky.social wesstrabelsi.substack.com/p/the-good-t...

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Science of AI in Education

What would you learn if you scoured the peer reviewed studies out there on AI in education? I did, and I wasn't ready for it.

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Rebecca Schmidt @rebeccaschmidt.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Bei uns an der Uni Paderborn ist eine Dauerstelle mit quantitativem Fokus ausgeschrieben www.uni-paderborn.de/fileadmin/zv... Gerne Teilen!! #UniPaderborn #Soziologie #Stellenanzeige

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