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Four years of a vegan diet
What’s it like to eat a vegan diet for some years? For most of my life I was a serious carnivore, eating lots of meat and animal products. Yet in late 2019 I experimented with eating a partially vegan diet. This turned out so well that in March 2020 I switched to eating solely plant-based foods and have done so for the following four years. The most delicious force in
Digitally Engaged Learning (DEL) Conference 2024 – call for submissions
Are you interested in sharing your practice in art & design digital pedagogy in higher education? Call for submissions at the DEL conference are now open! After 3 years of online conferences and local meetups at university hubs, DEL will host its first in-person conference since the COVID-19 pandemic altered higher education forever. As educators continue to adapt to shifting technologies and policies we look forward to sharing research
Starting my new book project: Peak Higher Education
Greetings from somewhere over the United States. I’m flying from DC to LA, and will take this lofty moment to announce my next book project. I introduced the peak higher education concept way back in 2013. It was a scenario describing one path for colleges and universities. Since then I’ve developed the model in presentations, articles, a book chapter, and workshops. Meanwhile, the past decade largely embodied what I projected,
MSU Spartan Mail: Changes to deleted email retention
There’s an upcoming change to the email retention policy for MSU Spartan Mail accounts. Effective April 3, 2024, the duration deleted items are retained within your mailbox will be reduced. You only need to act in response to this change if there are items in your Deleted Items folder you want to save. What is changing? Previously, emails and other items consigned to the Deleted Items folder in your MSU
An Accidental, Systematic Attack on OER Sustainability Models
A few weeks ago I wrote about how organizations in the OER community whose advocacy is focused almost exclusively on the cost of course materials could hurt the work being done by the rest of the OER community: Many OER advocates are vocal critics of inclusive access and equitable access models, and the US Department of Education is poised to prohibit schools from automatically billing students for their course materials. However,
CCW Immersive Technologies Day
UAL Staff only… Join us in person or online to learn about Immersive Technologies. Date and time Tuesday, March 19 · 11:30am – 4pm GMT Get tickets
Starting 2024 with all kinds of academic cuts
In this new year of 2024, which colleges and universities are cutting academic programs and jobs? For a month I’ve been working on this post, accumulating information about different examples, but the instances have been coming in faster than I’ve been able to note them down. And my own schedule ramped up to a fever pitch again. Finally I’m drawing a line under stories so far, just to get this
Survey: Using AI in Course Design
I doubt many parts of learning and teaching have not already been touched by the advances in AI technology, from the ability to answer questions posed in a course as part of the end-of-course assessment to creating authentic and realistic videos of the educator, based on a short clip of their voice and appearance. While there are many people better than me looking at the ethics and impact of these
FREE BOOK: AI Conversations: Critical conversations about AI, Art and education
The aim of this book is to explore how AI is affecting teaching and learning in a arts based institution through challenging and provocative discussions about where we are going with AI and how we respond to this ever changing phenomenon. Invited subject specialists have conversations on topics such as gender and racial bias, ethical uses of AI, AI and creativity and whether we see a need for a whole