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Gill Ferrell @gillferrell.bsky.social · Aug 19

Masterclass: Using Open Standards to Address Key Higher Education Interoperability Issues.
Monday 22 Sept. TU Delft

Aimed at representatives of University Alliances. Attendance is free.
Contact [email protected]

Poster advertising a workshop on open standards for European University Alliances on 22 September 2025 in Delft

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Gill Ferrell @gillferrell.bsky.social · Aug 5

Deadline approaching - some excellent submissions already - last chance to apply and demonstrate your Learning Impact!
#1EdTechEurope #LearningImpactEurope

Gill Ferrell @gillferrell.bsky.social · Jul 22

Learning Impact Europe Awards recognize innovative uses of technology that enhance learning outcomes.
You are invited to submit projects that demonstrate positive impact on learners in Europe.
Collaborative submissions welcome!
Deadline 5 Aug
#1EdTechEurope
www.1edtech.org/event/europe...

Two women and a man from the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training receiving a Learning Impact Award from 1EdTech CEO, Curtiss Barnes

Gill Ferrell @gillferrell.bsky.social · Aug 1

Opening keynote Barbara Wasson - member of the Council of Europe’s expert group on AI. Her research centre has just been awarded €31m – find out about this groundbreaking initiative.
#1EdTechEurope www.1edtech.org/event/europe...

Photo of Barbara Wasson, a white woman with blonde curly hair, advertising her talk on hybrid Intelligence at Learning Impact Europe.

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Gill Ferrell @gillferrell.bsky.social · Jul 22

Learning Impact Europe Awards recognize innovative uses of technology that enhance learning outcomes.
You are invited to submit projects that demonstrate positive impact on learners in Europe.
Collaborative submissions welcome!
Deadline 5 Aug
#1EdTechEurope
www.1edtech.org/event/europe...

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Gill Ferrell @gillferrell.bsky.social · Jul 22

Last chance to register at early bird rates.
Learning Impact Europe Awards open for entries until 5 August.
www.1edtech.org/event/europe...

Gill Ferrell @gillferrell.bsky.social · Jul 16

Learning Impact Europe unites educators, public sector & edtech innovators to tackle the biggest challenges in education.

Our core mission: creating a trusted digital learning ecosystem that is:

Open
Collaborative
Inclusive

Join us in shaping the education landscape! Register now
lnkd.in/eg9b5f6H

Poster for Learning Impact Europe 2025 showing smiling delegates at last year's event

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Gill Ferrell @gillferrell.bsky.social · Jun 20

futurism.com/chatgpt-poll...

Interesting scenario

ChatGPT Has Already Polluted the Internet So Badly That It's Hobbling Future AI Development

There may be no undoing the vast amounts of pollution wreaked by ChatGPT. And that's just tough luck for any AI models that come after it.

futurism.com

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EUNIS @eunis-community.bsky.social · Jun 6

🏆 We are proud to announce the recipients of this year’s EUNIS Awards, recognizing outstanding contributions to digital transformation in higher education across Europe. 👉 tiny.pl/fxvm58ym
Congrats to all #EUNIS25 Award winners! 👏
#EmergingProfessionals #BestPaper #Elite #Dørup

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Gill Ferrell @gillferrell.bsky.social · Jun 6

Well done to all the winners!

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Gill Ferrell @gillferrell.bsky.social · Jun 5

Massive congratulations James Trueman & Anglia Ruskin University winners of the Global Learning Impact award for Infrastructure. Best wishes from all of us in the 1EdTech Consortium European community. You've done us proud!

James Trueman with 1EdTech CEO, Curtiss Barnes. James is holding a glass trophy.

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EUNIS @eunis-community.bsky.social · Jun 5

🎉 Day 1 of #EUNIS25 kicked off with energy and inspiration! From keynotes to sessions on AI, cybersecurity, and digital transformation, it’s been a day of ideas, connection, and collaboration. Thanks to all involved—more to come 💡

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Willem van Valkenburg @wfvanvalkenburg.bsky.social · May 8

Together with #SURF and @gillferrell.bsky.social of #1Edtech we are organising the #learningimpactEurope conference in September at #tudelft

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Gill Ferrell @gillferrell.bsky.social · Apr 18

www.techradar.com/computing/cy...

Stop giving away your face – the viral AI doll trend is a privacy nightmare

Millions have already given away their face and sensitive data to jump on the latest viral AI trend

www.techradar.com

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Gill Ferrell @gillferrell.bsky.social · Apr 10

1EdTech Consortium's Learning Impact Europe Empowering education with an ecosystem of open standards: Call for Proposals now open
www.1edtech.org/event/europe/2025

Poster showing two young women engaging in a panel discussion and giving date 23-24 September and location Delft for Learning Impact Europe event 2025

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Gill Ferrell @gillferrell.bsky.social · Apr 10

1EdTech Consortium's Learning Impact Europe Empowering education with an ecosystem of open standards: Call for Proposals now open
www.1edtech.org/event/europe/2025

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Gill Ferrell @gillferrell.bsky.social · Mar 24

www.cnet.com/tech/service...

Tim Berners-Lee Wants to Know: 'Who Does AI Work For?'

The web's inventor says companies worked together decades ago to create an open internet. That isn't happening with generative AI.

www.cnet.com

Gill Ferrell @gillferrell.bsky.social · Mar 8

‘’… the tech companies didn’t even pay for the copy of my book or likely the tens of thousand other books they used to train their models. My book isn’t available freely online. And, as far as I can tell, they trained on an illegal copy in books3, an online dataset assembled by Russian pirates.’’

Gill Ferrell @gillferrell.bsky.social · Mar 8

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I have been an AI researcher for 40 years. What tech giants are doing to book publishing is akin to theft | Toby Walsh

Companies claim this is ‘fair use’. I think it’s a digital heist

www.theguardian.com

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Donna Lanclos @donnalanclos.com · Feb 21

This, I would love this. No more gender markers.

Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · Feb 21

Rather than restoring the previous status quo, the next Democratic administration should remove gender markers from identification entirely to protect privacy, prevent harassment, and reduce bureaucracy aridrennen.substack.com/p/the-cultur...

The Culture War Over Sex Markers on IDs Is Causing Chaos. Here’s How We End It

Most people assume sex markers have always been a passport requirement.

aridrennen.substack.com

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Gill Ferrell @gillferrell.bsky.social · Feb 22

LOL I do that so often you wouldn’t believe it!

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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · Feb 19

Despite my general reservations about Generative AI, I had my first exchange with Claude this week. It was both about David Bowie and climate change, but also about the nature of human use of GenAI.

‘Prompting the Alien’ is the result.

https://buff.ly/4i8tCqB

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Jisc @jisc.bsky.social · Feb 3

DeepSeek emerged last week as the hot new #AI model, but how does it compare on sustainability to ChatGPT?
@cal-innes.bsky.social our sustainability specialist, takes a look in this new piece for Tech Radar.

ChatGPT vs. DeepSeek: which AI model Is more sustainable?

How do the environmental credentials of these ChatGPT and DeepSeek compare?

www.techradar.com

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Neil Mosley @neilmosley.bsky.social · Feb 19

"Moodle is the market leader among small providers, Blackboard is still holding on when it comes to large providers...both Blackboard & Moodle had a much higher share, but,,that share has been eroded as universities have switched to Canvas or Brightspace."

UK Higher Education VLE Market: 2024 Review — Neil Mosley Consulting

A review of the UK higher education VLE market in 2024, analysing key trends, market share, and product developments by higher education consultant Neil Mosley.

buff.ly

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Feb 18

I was in Paris last week for the #AIActionSummit & was honoured to participate in the “AI in public interest” panel.

👇🏾 my thoughts & reflections on what AI in public interest is/isn’t & some concrete steps/initiatives for `bending the arc of AI towards the public interest' aial.ie/pages/aiparis/

Bending the arc of AI towards the public interest

By Abeba Birhane, 18/02/2025 Following the first in Bletchley Park in 2023 and the second in Seoul in 2024, the third AI Action Summit took place in February 2025 in Paris. In the context of previous ...

aial.ie

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Gill Ferrell @gillferrell.bsky.social · Feb 18

Interesting and worrying (not surprising) paper posted elsewhere by @jkom.bsky.social
Study by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that increased reliance on GenAI leads to decreased critical thinking.
Full article: www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

www.microsoft.com