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Associate Professor, Technology Enhanced Learning, CSHE, University of Melbourne, AU. PhD, SFHEA, SCMALT orcid.org/0000-0002-0192-6118 thomcochrane.wordpress.com

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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Google's Gemini Omni Can Generate 'Anything From Any Input,' Starting With Video flip.it/alB7vu
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Google's Gemini Omni can generate 'anything from any input,' starting with video - Engadget
Google didn't forget AI creators in its latest round of Gemini announcements.
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Thinking with AI flip.it/eKIJyk
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Why Most People Are Using AI Wrong
Why some people get better results from AI, and how perspective-taking, flexibility, and active thinking make the difference.
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Wood meets carbon for slicing through the city in style - wood framed e-bike esel.com/products/eur...
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eUrban Esel – Wooden Urban E-Bike
A wooden head-turner for urban commuting. Precision-crafted frame, 7-speed drive, smooth daily rides.
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Google has integrated NotebookLM with the Gemini AI platform, offering a unified system for productivity, knowledge management and workflow organization. www.geeky-gadgets.com/notebooklm-g...
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Google Just Put NotebookLM Inside Gemini: Here’s What You Can Do Now
NotebookLM’s AI studio tools, including audio overviews and slide decks, now sit inside Gemini as the rollout starts with Ultra users.
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
flip.it/Y33JXn Wikipedia officially bans AI-generated content — relying on human editors for bot detection
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Wikipedia officially bans AI-generated content — relying on human editors for bot detection
Editors can still use AI in limited ways, such as translating articles from other languages or suggesting minor copy edits.
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Higher Education Research Informed Practice Symposia Following the success of the CSHE/COP Symposium Series in 2025 we are planning another Series in 2026 – join us at the University of Melbourne melbourne-cshe.unimelb.edu.au/events/sympo...
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Symposia on Higher Education Research Informed Practice
Symposia on Higher Education Research Informed Practice
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
ChatGPT Provided Wrong Advice In Over 50% Medical Emergencies Tested flip.it/WoswEW
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ChatGPT Provided Wrong Advice In Over 50% Medical Emergencies Tested
A team at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found gave OpenAI's ChatGPT 60 different medical scenarios in the first published test of its LLM's medical advice.
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A different approach to AI adoption from Apple - now paying off? flip.it/kfrEVB
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Apple’s Lack of Interest in AI Hype Is Suddenly Making It Attractive to Wall Street
Apple has positioned itself as an alternative to tech stocks dependent on the AI boom to grow.
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/w... Human-AI Co-Creation (HACC) to foster creativity: Zhong, J., & Cochrane, T. (2024). Heutagogy-based Human-AI Co-creation Practice: A Framework for Enhancing Undergraduate Creativity. doi.org/10.14742/apu...
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With Apple’s new Creator Studio Pro, AI is a tool to aid creation, not replace it | TechCrunch
Apple’s Creator Studio Pro leverages AI to help creators with tedious tasks — like finding clips or building slides — without trying to do the work for them.
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 28/01/2026
By end of Feb @bsky.app will be the 2nd largest social media source for research sharing in our database - Google+ managed 945,000 mentions of research during its life - Facebook pages (not people's profiles) have shared papers 6.6m times - Reddit = 600k Bluesky is currently at 6m and climbing
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
AI is moving beyond chatbots — here’s what comes next: The next phase of AI won’t be something you open and talk to — it’ll be something that quietly works alongside you.
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
7 AI Decisions That Will Define Higher Education In 2026 - “The institutional mandate is clear: shift from academic integrity enforcement to AI fluency enablement.”
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
futurism.com/artificial-i... Comments form AI coders?
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AI Code Is a Bug-Filled Mess
A new report by AI software company CodeRabbit found that code generated by an AI was far more error-prone than human-written code.
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
My 2025 exercise stats
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
AI powering the next generation of wearable technologies flip.it/6wDTo0 Google Says First AI Glasses With Gemini Will Arrive in 2026
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Google Says First AI Glasses With Gemini Will Arrive in 2026
Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it’s working to create two different categories of artificial intelligence-powered smart glasses to compete next year with existing models from Meta Platforms Inc.: one wit...
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
It’s time to use AI to solve real problems impacting daily life flip.it/un9HF_
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
#ASCILITE2025 Keynote1 in Adelaide
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Companies Are Quietly Rehiring the Workers They Replaced With AI
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Adobe Premiere for iPhone now available – free with catches
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Human Agency in the Age of AI flip.it/_AL8Rm
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Human Agency in the Age of AI
When AI stands at the ready to do our work—and our thinking—for us, human agency is what keeps us drivers, not passengers, of the mind.
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Open Access Publishing via Tuwhera and mention of PJTEL blog.doaj.org/2025/07/29/t... The Pacific Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning ojs.aut.ac.nz/pjtel/ aims to provide new and emerging, as well as experienced researchers an open access platform to share their findings and discourse.
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Tuwhera: A commitment to open access and a sustainable and equitable knowledge commons – DOAJ Blog
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
More versatile than an e-bike? newatlas.com/outdoor-gear...
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Powered knee exoskeleton boosts leg strength by a claimed 50%
Motors have been added to bikes, skateboards and kayaks … so how about just slapping a couple directly to your legs? That's exactly what the Z1 knee exoskeleton does, reportedly offering a 50% boost i...
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Why Machines Aren’t Intelligent flip.it/0U1eXo
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Why Machines Aren’t Intelligent
OpenAI's LLM has achieved gold‑medal level performance at the 2025 IMO. We might think that machines are becoming incredibly intelligent. Yet this would be a mistake.
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
World’s Top 30 research Universities www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-w...
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Ranked: The World’s 30 Top Research Universities
Overall, U.S. universities make up 19 of the top 30 global research universities, followed by four UK universities.
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Prepping for Semester2 2025 #EDUC90970 Community of Inquiry www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...
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#EDUC90970 Facilitating Online Learning Participants - Google My Maps
Collaborative Map of #EDUC90970 Facilitating Online Learning course
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
A recent bibliometrics analysis identifies the Key Authors in HEUTAGOGY research: @thomcochrane.bsky.social @ATZ119 @vnarayan.bsky.social @LisaMBlaschke doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Heads up - ASCILITE papers are due 22 June this year! eventstudio.eventsair.com/ascilite-202... Call for Papers - ASCILITE 2025
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Call for Papers - ASCILITE 2025
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
5000 reads on ResearchGate - Preprint A Design-Based Research (DBR) Framework to Guide Curriculum Design www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) A Design-Based Research (DBR) Framework to Guide Curriculum Design
PDF | A Design-Based Research (DBR) Framework to Guide Curriculum Design 1 Why use Design Based Research (DBR) to guide curriculum design? 2 What is... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Hot off the press: Cochrane, T., Seignior, D., & Kok, D. (2025). Applications of artificial intelligence to health professional education. In D. L. Kok, D. Seignior, & M. Barrett (Eds.), Best Practices in Online Education: A Guide for Health Professional Educators. Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-...
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Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Health Professional Education
The utility of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in online Health Professional Education (HPE) has come to the fore with the release of publicly accessible online generative AI (GenAI) interfaces. The resu...
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
N.Y. cancer center using virtual reality to help patients manage pain #ASCILITEMLSIG
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
VR ‘transforming medical field’ through training, prototyping, treatment www.medicaldevice-network.com/news/vr-tran... via @MedicalTechMag #ASCILITEMLSIG
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VR ‘transforming medical field’ through training, prototyping, treatment
Medical uses of VR include creating realistic training environments, visualising product development and managing pain.
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Open Source AI decrypt.co/312580/ameri...
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America's 'DeepSeek Moment' Has Arrived, Peter Thiel-Backed Nonprofit Says - Decrypt
Operating as a non-profit, Sentient argues AI development "should belong to the community, not controlled by closed-source corporations."
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Virtual and F2F Symposia; Coming Up in 2025! blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sotel/2025/0...
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Virtual and F2F Symposium – Coming Up in 2025! | SOTEL
Coming up in 2025 we have a Virtual Symposium with a Webinar Series and a series of F2F @UniMelb Symposia The SoTEL2025 virtual international Symposium
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Welcome to 2025! blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sotel/2025/0...
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Welcome to 2025! | SOTEL
2024 ended with a real blast with the RECORD-BREAKING ASCILITE2024 Conference hosted by the University of Melbourne - well done UniMelb Team! Now into week 3
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
SoTEL2025 Virtual Technology Enhanced Learning Symposium now accepting 500 word abstracts for double-blind peer-reviewed publication and presentation sotel.nz
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
CMALT Week 28 April - 2 May: Time to finally finish off those CMALT submissions! #ASCILITEMLSIG @ascilite @A_L_T www.alt.ac.uk/news/all_new...
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CMALT Week 2025: Empower Your Professional Growth
The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) is delighted to share the schedule of events for CMALT Week 2025, 28 April - 2 May, a week long event dedicated to celebrating the CMALT Accreditation Fra...
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Advancing Physical Examination Skills through Technology-Enhanced Learning in Health Professions Education doi.org/10.26188/278... @merollim.bsky.social
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Advancing Physical Examination Skills through Technology-Enhanced Learning in Health Professions Education
TEL COP WebinarFriday 22 November,12-1pmAdvancing Physical Examination Skills through Technology-Enhanced Learning in Health Professions EducationDr Mark Merolli
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Crowd-sourcing AI Mapping www.zmescience.com/science/news...
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Pokémon Go Players Were Duped Into Training a Powerful AI Map of the Real World
While you thought you were training your Pikachu, you were actually training AI to see the world.
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Hot off the press - Stretton, T., Cochrane, T., Sevigny, C., Stander, J., & Merolli, M. (2025). Co-designing critical thinking in health professional education: a 360 immersive environment case study. Virtual Reality, 29(1), 40. doi.org/10.1007/s100...
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Co-designing critical thinking in health professional education: a 360 immersive environment case study - Virtual Reality
Critical thinking is essential in health disciplines though is reportedly underdeveloped in student health professionals. Immersive mobile extended reality (mXR) may facilitate critical thinking in he...
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
A good use of AI - AI app translates live speech in real-time on video calls
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Immersive Reality (XR) rises from the ashes - enhanced with AI AndroidXR joins Apple VisionOS and Meta in reviving XR #ASCILITEMLSIG blog.google/products/and...
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Android XR: The Gemini era comes to headsets and glasses
Android XR is our newest platform built specifically for XR headsets and glasses.
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
First article pblished for 2025: Kadhim, A. J., & Cochrane, T. (2025). Exploring the real impact of ICT tools on secondary school students’ learning of geography. Pacific Journal of Educational Technology, 7(1), 1-17. doi.org/10.24135/pjt...
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Exploring the Real Impact of ICT Tools on Secondary School Students’ Learning of Geography | Pacific Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
This app turns your Apple Watch into a Mac and smart home gesture hub #ASCILITEMLSIG
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Butterfly Lets You Use Bluesky From Your Apple Watch
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
What was your favourite #ASCILITE2024 experience? Please share #ASCILITEMLSIG
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 03/12/2024
BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!
Blueksy Mentions are now in Altmetric.

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#AcademicSky #HigherEd #MedSky #HMSky #Altmetrics #Medlibs #Metascience
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
#ASCILITE2024 stats and thanks to the awesome Conference Organising Committee for the record-breaking 2024 conference! publications.ascilite.org/index.php/AP...
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View of 2024: ASCILITE 2024 Conference Proceedings
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
#ASCILITE2024 @chrishonig It’s about the teaching not the technology doi.org/10.14742/apu...
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drshaz-ico.bsky.social @drshaz-ico.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
@asciliteconf.bsky.social what a great dinner at the camp fire and fire chat with Chris Keyon and Lisa Marie Blaschke and Thom Cochrane
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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
#ASCILITE2024 AI can detect cancer - so can dogs!
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