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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 10d

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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · 26d

Human Agency in the Age of AI flip.it/_AL8Rm

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 · Jul 30

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.

Tuwhera: A commitment to open access and a sustainable and equitable knowledge commons – DOAJ Blog

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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · Jul 24

More versatile than an e-bike? newatlas.com/outdoor-gear...

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 · Jul 20

Why Machines Aren’t Intelligent flip.it/0U1eXo

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 · Jul 17

World’s Top 30 research Universities www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-w...

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 · Jul 14

Prepping for Semester2 2025 #EDUC90970 Community of Inquiry www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...

#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 · Jul 5

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 · Jun 5

Heads up - ASCILITE papers are due 22 June this year!

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Call for Papers - ASCILITE 2025

Call for Papers - ASCILITE 2025

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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · May 28

5000 reads on ResearchGate - Preprint A Design-Based Research (DBR) Framework to Guide Curriculum Design
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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 · May 28

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-...

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 · Apr 30

N.Y. cancer center using virtual reality to help patients manage pain #ASCILITEMLSIG

Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · Apr 7

VR ‘transforming medical field’ through training, prototyping, treatment
www.medicaldevice-network.com/news/vr-tran... via @MedicalTechMag #ASCILITEMLSIG

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 · Apr 2

Open Source AI decrypt.co/312580/ameri...

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 · Mar 20

Virtual and F2F Symposia; Coming Up in 2025! blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sotel/2025/0...

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 · Mar 20

Welcome to 2025! blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sotel/2025/0...

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 · Mar 13

SoTEL2025 Virtual Technology Enhanced Learning Symposium now accepting 500 word abstracts for double-blind peer-reviewed publication and presentation sotel.nz

SoTEL

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Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · Mar 13

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...

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 · Mar 12

Advancing Physical Examination Skills through Technology-Enhanced Learning in Health Professions Education doi.org/10.26188/278... @merollim.bsky.social

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 · Mar 11

Crowd-sourcing AI Mapping www.zmescience.com/science/news...

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 · Feb 17

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...

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 · Feb 11

A good use of AI - AI app translates live speech in real-time on video calls

Thomas Cochrane @thomcochrane.bsky.social · Jan 26

Immersive Reality (XR) rises from the ashes - enhanced with AI AndroidXR joins Apple VisionOS and Meta in reviving XR #ASCILITEMLSIG
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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 · Jan 14

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...

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 · Jan 6

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This app turns your Apple Watch into a Mac and smart home gesture hub

The WowMouse app puts cursor and click controls on your Apple Watch. But thanks to Bosch, it will soon let you control smart home devices as well.

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