Thomas Cochrane
@thomcochrane.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Technology Enhanced Learning, CSHE, University of Melbourne, AU. PhD, SFHEA, SCMALT https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0192-6118 http://thomcochrane.wordpress.com
Companies Are Quietly Rehiring the Workers They Replaced With AI
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Companies Are Quietly Rehiring the Workers They Replaced With AI
Adobe Premiere for iPhone now available – free with catches
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Adobe Premiere for iPhone now available – free with catches
Human Agency in the Age of AI flip.it/_AL8Rm
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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September 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Human Agency in the Age of AI flip.it/_AL8Rm
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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July 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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.
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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July 24, 2025 at 5:38 AM
More versatile than an e-bike? newatlas.com/outdoor-gear...
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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July 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Why Machines Aren’t Intelligent flip.it/0U1eXo
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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July 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM
World’s Top 30 research Universities www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-w...
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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July 14, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Prepping for Semester2 2025 #EDUC90970 Community of Inquiry www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...
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...
July 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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...
Heads up - ASCILITE papers are due 22 June this year!
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Call for Papers - ASCILITE 2025
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Call for Papers - ASCILITE 2025
Call for Papers - ASCILITE 2025
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June 5, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Heads up - ASCILITE papers are due 22 June this year!
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Call for Papers - ASCILITE 2025
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Call for Papers - ASCILITE 2025
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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May 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
5000 reads on ResearchGate - Preprint A Design-Based Research (DBR) Framework to Guide Curriculum Design
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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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May 28, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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-...
N.Y. cancer center using virtual reality to help patients manage pain #ASCILITEMLSIG
April 30, 2025 at 2:33 AM
N.Y. cancer center using virtual reality to help patients manage pain #ASCILITEMLSIG
VR ‘transforming medical field’ through training, prototyping, treatment
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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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April 7, 2025 at 11:19 PM
VR ‘transforming medical field’ through training, prototyping, treatment
www.medicaldevice-network.com/news/vr-tran... via @MedicalTechMag #ASCILITEMLSIG
www.medicaldevice-network.com/news/vr-tran... via @MedicalTechMag #ASCILITEMLSIG
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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April 2, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Open Source AI decrypt.co/312580/ameri...
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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March 20, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Virtual and F2F Symposia; Coming Up in 2025! blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sotel/2025/0...
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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March 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Welcome to 2025! blogs.unimelb.edu.au/sotel/2025/0...
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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March 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
SoTEL2025 Virtual Technology Enhanced Learning Symposium now accepting 500 word abstracts for double-blind peer-reviewed publication and presentation sotel.nz
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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March 13, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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...
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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March 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Advancing Physical Examination Skills through Technology-Enhanced Learning in Health Professions Education doi.org/10.26188/278... @merollim.bsky.social
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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March 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Crowd-sourcing AI Mapping www.zmescience.com/science/news...
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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February 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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...
A good use of AI - AI app translates live speech in real-time on video calls
February 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
A good use of AI - AI app translates live speech in real-time on video calls
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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January 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Immersive Reality (XR) rises from the ashes - enhanced with AI AndroidXR joins Apple VisionOS and Meta in reviving XR #ASCILITEMLSIG
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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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January 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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...