AI Has Exposed Higher Ed’s Hollow Core — The University Must Reinvent Itself or Fade substack.com/home/post/p-...

AI Has Exposed Higher Ed’s Hollow Core — The University Must Reinvent Itself or Fade substack.com/home/post/p-...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Stupidity www.platoscave.org/2021/10/bonh...

Interesting data from a study of GenAI usage in studies amongst Scottish students saw no significant change in usage from 2024 to 2025. In 2025 more students highlighted concerns around ethical issues, copyright and desklling. #altc25

AI principles developed collaboratively by the Scottish AI Tertiary Education Network being presented at #altc25 sites.google.com/view/scaiten

Views amongst #altc25 delegates of the year ahead in edtech. Suspect these will resonate with others working across HE and FE.

Students highlighting the need for a standardised approach to module design at #altc25 Why has it taken the sector so long to address this?

#altc25 the vle should be more like instagram. Does this highlight the challenge around attention literacy?

#altc25 The perennial question of how to communicate with students is posed to the student panel and the perennial response not email, use social media. Yet not all students are on social media and in the world of work you have to navigate email, Teams and multiple information channels.

The impact of the recent VS scheme at the University of Dundee on the art and design student experience. Unsurprising and no doubt similar challenges being seen across all academic disciplines. thejutejournal.com/2025/10/13/f...

Sad to see so many talented, creative and innovative individuals leaving the University of Dundee today. Collective wisdom and institutional memory being lost. Wishing everyone who’s left on VS all the best and hoping that fulfilling and fun new opportunities open up.

Media Literacy: a case of policy failure - An interesting read hot on the heels of last week’s House of Lords Communications & Digital Committee’s report on media literacy published week davidbuckingham.net/2025/07/28/m...

A round-up of some of this week’s headline news on AI from Graham Lovelace grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/trump-wins...

The Dark Side of AI Companionship: A Taxonomy of Harmful Algorithmic Behaviors in Human-AI Relationships dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

‘An existential crisis’: can universities survive ChatGPT? www.thetimes.com/article/4176...

AI secretly helped write California bar exam, sparking uproar arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas www.theguardian.com/environment/...

AI is out of control, we have the receipts | Copyright-denying OpenAI and Google pile pressure on UK | Angry authors to Meta: 'Get the Zuck off our books' grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/comment-ai...

Learning is hard. The learning pit player.vimeo.com/video/128462...

#UCISA25 Reading developed this Digital Research Strategy in song the Roger L Martin 5 questions approach. This involved willed café style sessions. hbr.org/2010/05/the-...

#UCISA25 Henrik Brogger from Reading outlining that when he joined the university, some disciplines received gold standard digital research services, others didn’t. Guessing this will be the experience in other universities too.

#UCISA25 @dkernohan.bsky.social mentioning the very real challenges around recruiting staff to specialist IT roles in higher education.

#UCISA25 Universities do so much more than teaching and research. Engines of social mobility, mental health service for young people, R&D for business, free labour for academic publishers. Also a convenient political punch bag.

#UCISA25 @dkernohan.bsky.social Talking about collaboration and competition in the higher education sector, opportunities to work together eg back office functions. Brings to mind this old HEFCE report from 2011, Collaborate to Compete focusing on online learning dera.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/19...

Likely to be a continued shift to lifelong and later-life learning. Will the three-year residential model of university learning survive into the longer term future? #UCISA25

#UCISA25 David Kernohan highlighting that he doesn’t think AI will offer that much more in the next 10 years. Also that we’re not likely to see Govt giving universities more funding in the foreseeable future.

Next up at #UCISA25 is @davidkernohan.bsky.social from Wonkhe on - What's happening in UK higher education, and what does it mean for IT professionals?

This talk on curriculum mapping at #UCISA25 brings back to mind the work done in medical education during the early 2000s particularly by the MEDEV team at Newcastle.

The complexities of addressing degree programmes that are accredited by professional bodies being raised in relation to implementing a curriculum mapping solution. Also curriculum analytics. #UCISA25

Hearing about the merger of the Universities of Adelaide & South Australia into the new Adelaide University and merging of curricula. #UCISA25 Process of curriculum redesign & looking for a mature yet fully flexible curriculum management system.

Teesside adopted a creative and collaborative approach to developing their London campus with academics and IT working together to enable their academic delivery model #UCISA25

Interesting to see Teesside introduce block learning module approach on their London Campus with students in for two days a week and enabling them to more easily take on part time work or fulfil caring responsibilities. Are other universities taking in this approach? #UCISA25

Geoff Ramm highlighting we have management meetings, strategy meetings etc but how many university teams have customer service meetings to look at how we enhance our services to staff and students #UCISA25

First keynote of #UCISA25 Geoff Ramm on Celebrity Service

UCISA recognising members who’ve displayed leadership and resilience in dealing with the aftermath of a cyberattack with the launch of the UCISA Stonephish Member Club #UCISA25

UCISA Leadership Conference 2025 underway in Brighton #UCISA25

Absolutely devastating news, 632 jobs going at Dundee University on top of the 237 frozen vacancies. So many great staff who don’t deserve to be in this position. Sad that the only solution seems to be to cut jobs, surely there must be other options that could be considered.

Turnitn launches Clarity to “Help students use AI responsibly with educator-enabled guidance, ensuring appropriate and ethical AI integration into writing.” www.turnitin.com/campaigns/cl...

AI slop is overtaking the internet. www.techradar.com/computing/ar...

Join us in celebrating Open Education Week 2025. This week, we will be sharing open resources to promote collaboration & knowledge sharing. Since 2012, organisations, institutions, & individuals come together every March to discuss & celebrate Open Education. buff.ly/3mvqHAD#OEWe... #altc

Looking forward to attending some of these sessions running in Public Sector AI week psiweek.digileaders.com #PSAIWeek

Scottish Gov has announced details of the next round of funding for CivTech 10. An interesting set of challenges all with an AI focus including monitoring puffin colonies www.civtech.scot/civtech-10-c...

Let's face it, everyone in universities older than c57-58 is going to go. If you get offered a year's salary on light taxes to stop and your lump sum and pension is due in just 5 or 6 years, you would. So a whole cohort and generation will unplug, to everyone's loss. www.ft.com/content/77f7...

Student influencers fill gaps in university support services with #studytalk posts on social media. www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg from the world’s fact-checkers, nine years later www.poynter.org/ifcn/2025/an...

Good piece from Jamie Bartlett about the broader implications of Meta stopping ‘content moderation’ jamiejbartlett.substack.com/p/is-this-th...

Your Higher Ed Must-Reads for 2025 It's that time again in the higher ed publishing cycle where we look ahead to those exciting new books we can expect in the next 12 months. New blog featuring some of the much-anticipated publications on the way this year. wonderfulhighered.com/2025/01/09/y...

New study finds that frequent use of AI tools encourages offloading cognitive tasks and reduces critical thinking. Higher AI usage correlated with lower critical thinking skills, especially in younger users. www.mdpi.com/2075-4698/15...

California’s next water war won’t concern agriculture. It will be about AI Read more at: www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...