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Institute of Educational Technology @ietatou.bsky.social · 9d

📢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

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Senior Hub Manager

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Fereshte Goshtasbpour @gfereshte.bsky.social · 9d

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

Contextualizing Everyday Data Literacies: The Case of Recreational Runners

Data literacy is typically described in a decontextualized manner, and many data literacy frameworks are detached from the “messy” realities of everyday life. In the present study, we selected a sp...

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Fereshte Goshtasbpour @gfereshte.bsky.social · 10d

#autumnlight

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Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference @socmedhe.bsky.social · 15d

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!

Call for session proposals

This year, we are delighted to host the 11th international Social Media for Learning in Higher Education conference at Lancaster University, co-chaired by Dr Katy Jordan and Dr Kathy Chandler. The …

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Fereshte Goshtasbpour @gfereshte.bsky.social · 13d

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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CHEF WG2 Webinar: Future institutions in, with, and for Society 3 – Siân Bayne

Drawing on Siân Bayne’s inspirational and extensive research in higher education futures and digital education, this talk examines the complex relationships between humans and machines through critica...

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Rob Farrow @rfarrow.bsky.social · Sep 2

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/...

Metaphors of AI in Education: Discourses, Histories and Practices | Journal of Interactive Media in Education

This special issue, Metaphors of AI in Education: Discourses, Histories and Practices, investigates how metaphors frame, challenge, and reimagine understandings of Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED).

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Institute of Educational Technology @ietatou.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

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Fereshte Goshtasbpour @gfereshte.bsky.social · Aug 20

A great #openaccess book with some interesting chapters on #digitalhealth
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Smart Systems: Engineering and Managing Information for Future Success

This book offers a comprehensive exploration of cutting-edge technologies that are reshaping industries and societies

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Fereshte Goshtasbpour @gfereshte.bsky.social · Jul 15

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

Dr Simon Ball @simonjball.bsky.social · Jul 15

Registration is now open for Open University postgrad module Research and Scholarship in Digital Education www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Aimed at those moving into postgrad study or thinking of or starting a PhD. Starts Oct 4th (until May 2026). Students can participate in April Online Conference.

A postcard advertising Open University module H890 Research and Scholarship in Digital Education. Aside from the module name the text reads: 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. There is further text beneath an image of two students working together, which reads Evaluate teaching innovation through cutting-edge research. www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate/modules/H890 and buttons reading 'Flexible study', 'Fully online' and '60 postgraduate credits'. There is also a QR code going to the same place as the link mentioned above.

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Fereshte Goshtasbpour @gfereshte.bsky.social · Jun 26

“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...

Communication in Language MOOCs (Chapter 11) - The Cambridge Handbook of Technology in Language Teaching and Learning

The Cambridge Handbook of Technology in Language Teaching and Learning - June 2025

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Dr Khawla Badwan @khawlabadwan.bsky.social · Jun 21

They are glowing
in rage
#KeepTellingofGaza #GazaGenocide

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Institute of Educational Technology @ietatou.bsky.social · Jun 17

Day 2 of #CALRG2025 kicks off with a #digitalhealth session. Feel free to join us (email [email protected] for the link).

Conference programme: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/CALRG/

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Institute of Educational Technology @ietatou.bsky.social · Jun 16

#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 [email protected] for the link to the sessions.

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Fereshte Goshtasbpour @gfereshte.bsky.social · Jun 13

@jisc.bsky.social report: Student perceptions of AI 2025
www.jisc.ac.uk/reports/stud...

#AI #AiinEducation #AI2025

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Institute of Educational Technology @ietatou.bsky.social · Jun 11

Less than a week to #CALRG annual conference!

For more info see: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/CALRG/...

#calrg2025 #digitaleducation #EdTechconference

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Institute of Educational Technology @ietatou.bsky.social · Jun 6

The schedule & abstracts for the 48th #CALRG Conference are now available! www.open.ac.uk/blogs/CALRG/...

📆16-19 June 2025
💻 Free, Online and open to all

External to The Open University (UK), email us ([email protected]) for session links.

#CALRG2025 #EdTech #DigitalEducation

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Institute of Educational Technology @ietatou.bsky.social · May 27

🚨 Registration is open🚨
Explore the cutting edge of #digitallearning & #EdTech research in our Research & Scholarship in Digital Education module (H890)

🔍 Investigate 📚 Reflect 💡 Innovate
www.open.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Registration closes 11/09/25 (places subject to availability)
#digitaleducation

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Fereshte Goshtasbpour @gfereshte.bsky.social · May 19

Will be out soon: Communication in Language MOOCs

Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Fereshte Goshtasbpour, and Barbara Conde-Gafaro

www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

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Agnes Kukulska-Hulme @agneskh.bsky.social · May 14

Scholarships available to study our Masters in Online Teaching - apply by 20 May www.open.ac.uk/blogs/MAOT/i...

Commonwealth Scholarship applications now invited for The Open University’s Masters in Online Teaching | Masters in Online Teaching

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Fereshte Goshtasbpour @gfereshte.bsky.social · May 3

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bnx...

What happens if AI just keeps getting smarter?

YouTube video by Rational Animations

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Fereshte Goshtasbpour @gfereshte.bsky.social · Apr 30

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British Council 90th Anniversary Research Fellowships | IASH

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Fereshte Goshtasbpour @gfereshte.bsky.social · Apr 23

Stunning!

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Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social · Apr 11

Are you a UK based self-funded post grad researcher? (PhD, MRes etc) If so, I'd like to send you a copy of my book. I have *five* to give away. Please share and drop a note below or DM me. I'll announce next Friday (from the pub) 🐕 📖 🍺 more info -
www.immersiveresearch.co.uk/bookshop

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JIME Journal @jimejournal.bsky.social · Apr 15

Deadline extended to *30th April* for submissions to the special issue on Open Education and Open Science in the Digital Age - see below

JIME Journal @jimejournal.bsky.social · Feb 26

📢Call for papers for a special collection of JIME📢, on 'Open Education and Open Science in the Digital Age' - deadline for full papers 15th April. More info and how to submit: account.jime.open.ac.uk/index.php/up...

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Dr Simon Ball @simonjball.bsky.social · Apr 14

We have been fortunate enough to be awarded some more Commonwealth Scholarship places for entry onto our Masters in Online Teaching next year. Please share this information far and wide, especially if you have contacts in the eligible Commonwealth countries.

iet.open.ac.uk/commonwealth...

Commonwealth Scholarships 2025 | Institute of Educational Technology, The Open UniversityInstitute of Educational Technology

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