@gfereshte
Lecturer in Digital Education at The Open University. Digital Education. Digital Health. JIME- Associate Editor Computers & Learning Research Group (CALRG)-Co-lead https://sites.google.com/view/gfereshte/publications-and-presentations
Catching up with this panel discussion. Studies have shown that while use of #AI in education increases learners' productivity, learners' overdependence on it has a negative effect on their higher-order skills like criticality & creativity!
#AIED #digitaleducation
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📆Call for papers for a special issue in @jimejournal.bsky.social
AI, Curriculum Futures and Human-Centred Student Support
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#AIED
Exciting news📢
We’re delighted to announce 5 fully funded #Commonwealth Distance Learning Scholarships for 50+ eligible Commonwealth countries to study our @oumaot.bsky.social entirely online.
📅 Applications close: 16:00 (GMT), Tuesday 31 March 2026
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My solution to every problem…. Get upside down and you get the clarity you need 🙃
#calisthenics
Don't miss tomorrow's #CALRG talk by @allisonl.bsky.social
UCL's Pro-Vice Provost for the Data Empowered Societies Grand Challenge. She'll be exploring whether future learning for work be data driven or human driven?
Thursday 5th Feb, 11.00 am, online
Email calrg@open.ac.uk for the link
Registration is now open for our popular microcredential: Online Teaching: Accessibility and Inclusive Learning (HZVM884)🌐
📚 15 credits | Postgraduate Level | 12 weeks (12.5 hrs/week)
💻 100% Online | Cost: £725 👉 www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...
#OnlineTeaching #InclusiveLearning
Lecturer in Digital Innovation and Artificial Intelligence
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Fostering deliberation and action in context: ana analysis of implementation research among healthcare professionals in LMICs from a post digital perspective.
Our latest article in British Journal of Educational Technology led by Koula Charitonos. oro.open.ac.uk/106411/
Registration deadline extended to 29th Jan! So you still have time to join H880 #Technology-enhanced learning: foundations & futures and be part of our 2026 multi-national cohort! www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Exciting news! We’ve just launched a brand-new suite of short #CPD courses. Explore key topics shaping the future of education. See next posts👇
📚 20 hours | 🌐 Fully online | 🎓 Includes a digital badge upon completion
Generative AI in education www.open.ac.uk/courses/shor...
#digitaleducation #genAIinEducation #AIED #CPD #ProfessionalDevelopment @duygubektik.bsky.social @eduinf.bsky.social @chrisedwards.bsky.social
A new national hub for research capability is launching & you’re invited! An ESRC-funded initiative bringing together training, resources & communities of practice across the UK social sciences. Join us on 27 Jan (in-person or online) to explore what’s coming. Registration closes 14 Jan!
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Registration is open for 10 more days! www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...
📆Start date: Feb 26 start
💻60 PG credits, entirely online.
🎓Stand alone (PG Cert) or as part of Masters in Online Teaching.
👩🏫Ideal for new & experienced educators from all sectors & countries.
#digitaleducation #onlineteaching
A screenshot from an example of eXtended Reality training, highlighted in CPD course HG087. It shows a trainee astronaut holding up their hands in front of their face in wonder as if using an XR headset for the first time. Their avatar is inside a lunar module with stacks of boxed equipment and technology around them.
New CPD courses produced by @ietatou.bsky.social on digital education and AI, eXtended Reality, blended learning and the climate crisis. www.open.ac.uk/blogs/MAOT/i...
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Technology–enhanced learning: foundations and futures The skills and knowledge you’ll acquire through supported postgraduate study at The Open University can bring real-life benefits to you and your career. Learn about the theory and practice of online and blended learning Flexible study. Fully online. 60 postgraduate credits. www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/modules/h880
Registration now open for OU online Masters module Technology Enhanced Learning: Foundations And Futures for Feb 26 start. 60 PG credits, entirely online. Also part of Masters in Online Teaching. Ideal for new and experienced educators from all sectors & countries.
www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...
#AI in the classroom: What students are saying (survey)
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#AIED
Our latest paper based on #healthwearable & #selftrack data
The findings show that some transplant recipients can actually meet and even exceed physical activity guidelines as measured by both subjective (self-reported training load) and objective GPS data. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
📢JOB OPPORTUNITY 📢
Lead our £5M Research Capability Hub and come and work with some amazing colleagues @openuniversity.bsky.social Institute of Educational Technology and PolicyWISE
Closing date: 20 October 2025
jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Senior-H...
A great article about the impotance of context when data literacy measures are considered.
Contextualising Everyday Data Literacies: The Case of Recreational Runners
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#quantifiedself #dataliteracy #wellnessdata #sportdata #runner #running
#autumnlight
This year, #socmedhe25 will be coming to Lancaster University, on 16th December! The call for papers/session proposals is now open at socmedhe25.wordpress.com/2025/07/16/c... - please submit abstracts by *24th October*
Hope you can join us - see you in December!
Looking forward to this!
Thursday 9 October 2025, at 14:30 - 15:30
Future institution in, with and for Society 3 by Sain Bayne
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If you're at the @unesco.bsky.social Digital Learning Week, you'll perhaps be interested in the recent special collection of JIME - Metaphors of #AI in Education: Discourses, Histories and Practices, featuring an interview with keynote @emilymbender.bsky.social
jime.open.ac.uk/collections/...
Research and Scholarship in #DigitalEducation
💻60 PG credits
🧑🎓Stand alone or as part of MA in Online Teaching
📆 registration deadline: 11 September
ℹ️info: www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...
#OUMAOT #EdTech
A great #openaccess book with some interesting chapters on #digitalhealth
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
My baby module is open for registration for 2025! Feel free to contact me if you'd like to know more or have any question about the module.
#digitaleducation
“Communication Language MOOCs” co-authored with @agneskh.bsky.social and Barbara Conde Gafaro in the Cambridge Handbook of Technology in Language Teaching and Learning is out!
#moocs #learningatscale
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
They are glowing
in rage
#KeepTellingofGaza #GazaGenocide
Day 2 of #CALRG2025 kicks off with a #digitalhealth session. Feel free to join us (email CALRG@open.ac.uk for the link).
Conference programme: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/CALRG/
#CALRG2025 kicks off today with a keynote by Prof. Eileen Scanlon: Learning Science at a Distance? at 14.00
Full conference programme: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/CALRG/...
email CALRG@open.ac.uk for the link to the sessions.