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Networked Learning Conference Consortium @nlcc.bsky.social · 12d

Submission reminder for #NLC2026 in Brussels next spring: Papers & Symposia by 10 Oct
Workshops & Round Tables are due by 21 Nov to journals.aau.dk/index.php/nl... (which also gets you searchable open access to 25 years of brilliant learning technology scholarship #justsayin) #networkedlearning

Foreground is a large shiny metal ball with connecting links and supporting strut with a staircase inside it. Background is lots of trees and the city of Brussels stretching to the horizon. The picture was taken by Julien and posted to flickr with a creative commons license https://flic.kr/p/MmVEC

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Peter Goodyear @petergoodyear.bsky.social · 12d

I should think there’s a good overlap of interests with #NetworkedLearning @nlcc.bsky.social ?

Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference @socmedhe.bsky.social · 16d

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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Networked Learning Conference Consortium @nlcc.bsky.social · Jul 3

'Networked Learning Research in the Post-Era' themed events begin next Wednesday, July 9, 2025, 5PM-7PM (KST) or 10AM-12PM (CEST) free online. Breaking new ground, our first node event based in Asia stars Prof. Nina Bonderup Dohn 🤩 www.networkedlearning.aau.dk/news/2025-nl...

2025 NLC Node Event in Asia

2025 NLC Node Event in Asia – Hosted by Seoul National University

www.networkedlearning.aau.dk

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · Jun 9

Wondering if anyone can suggest research for me to read on predictions/recommendations on what the future university workforce will look like? e.g. academic vs professional staff, third space work. Particularly interested in the Australian context but I'll read anything. #academicsky

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Networked Learning Conference Consortium @nlcc.bsky.social · Jun 4

Call for papers 🙌🥳 www.networkedlearning.aau.dk/nlc-2026/nlc... #nlc2026

NLC2026 Submission information

Networked Learning Conference 2026, NLC2026, how to submit research, submission information

www.networkedlearning.aau.dk

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · May 27

I'm thrilled that @restofworld.org has excerpted one of my favorite passages from EMPIRE OF AI. It's not about Sam Altman or OpenAI directly. It's about what their vision of scale is costing us—and how we could dare to dream for a different conception of progress. 1/

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The real cost of AI is being paid in deserts far from Silicon Valley

In Empire of AI, journalist Karen Hao writes about the rise of OpenAI and the impacts of AI around the world. Below is an extract from the book on the effects on Chile's mineral reserves and water res...

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Janja Komljenovic @jkom.bsky.social · May 28

I’m looking forward to speak at the @work2025fi.bsky.social conference! I’ll be discussing academic labour and HE in the age of digital rentiership.

WORK2025 Conference @work2025fi.bsky.social · May 28

On the second day of the WORK2025 conference, we will hear an interesting keynote speech from Janja Komljenovic @jkom.bsky.social! Join us and register now at work2025.fi/registration/! Early bird registration deadline is June 10th.

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Dr Ola Michalec @olamichalec.bsky.social · May 7

🔔 Reminder!

Hype Studies Conference (10-12th Sept in Barcelona/online) is accepting abstracts until 10th May!

You can submit your contribution here:

hypestudies.org/conference/a...

The event is free and open to academics and practitioners alike. We hope to hear from many of you soon 🫵 💜

poster for hype studies conference by alex wifi with a hype bubble machine

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Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social · Mar 23

🟨Volume 50, Issue 1 (2025) of LMT🟪

Let's introduce our new Special Issue! In their editorial
@jkom.bsky.social, @keanbirch.bsky.social & Sam Sellar intruduce the dynamics of #rentiership and #assetisation in the digitalisation of education.

Read all articles: tinyurl.com/a8bvzkxe

Learning, Media and Technology Mapping rentiership and assetisation in the digitalisation of education Edited by Janja Komljenovic, Kean Birch and Sam Sellar This special issue builds on emerging work on rentiership and assetisation in education to address the lack of analytical attention on these dynamics and to begin mapping a future research agenda for the field. To date, research in this field has introduced key concepts for understanding assetisation and has illuminated potential challenges for the digitalisation of higher education (Komljenovic 2021, 2022). Other areas of investigation include: how assetisation relates to other economic processes in education and how it remakes educational processes and subjects as com- modified entities (Grimaldi, Ball, and Peruzzo 2023); how automated interventions in education are calculated based on assetised resources (Hansen and Komljenovic 2023); the potential for, and challenges of, digital disruption in digital economies organised subject to assetised governance (Komljenovic et al. 2024a); the assetisation strategies of edupreneurs as they collaborate with edu- cation and research sectors (Ideland and Serder 2023); the futuring activities of EdTech investors (Komljenovic et al. 2023; Komljenovic, Sellar, and Birch 2024b; Williamson and Komljenovic 2023); and the translation of tuition fees into assets (Milyaeva and Neyland 2020)

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Civics of Technology @civicsoftech.bsky.social · Feb 18

@techpolicypress.bsky.social has posted a lovely interview with Nicholas Carr, the author of our NEXT book club on March 13.

You can register for that one here: oklahoma.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

www.techpolicy.press/how-technolo...

How Technologies Divide Us: A Q&A with Nicholas Carr | TechPolicy.Press

New America's Akash Kapur connected with Carr after the publication of his new book, Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart.

www.techpolicy.press

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Lucas Cone @lucascone.bsky.social · Jan 22

With all the obscenely wealthy tech CEO’s lined up behind Trump it seems like a fitting time to share this call for papers to explore post-platform alternatives and issues in education. Time for new ecosystems, baby!
@lmt-journal.bsky.social
Co-edited by me and Niels Kerssens, deadline end of Feb

Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social · Jan 10

🟨Call for Papers🟪

Submit a manuscript for a Special Issue on 'Post-Platform Education: Reimagining Digital Ecosystems in Primary and Secondary Schooling' edited by @lucascone.bsky.social & Kerssens.

Abstracts ➡ 28 February 2025
Manuscripts ➡ 31 July 2025

Read more: tinyurl.com/2c3mpnfp

Submit a Manuscript to the Journal
Learning, Media and Technology

For a Special Issue on
Post-Platform Education: Reimagining Digital Ecosystems in Primary and Secondary Schooling

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Networked Learning Conference Consortium @nlcc.bsky.social · Feb 11

bsky.app/profile/suza... Welcome to bsky @suzankoseoglu.bsky.social 🙌🤗

suzankoseoglu.bsky.social @suzankoseoglu.bsky.social · Feb 11

We invite you to submit a proposal for Co-Construction in #HigherEducation, an upcoming OA volume!

You can find the full details here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Please share the call with your networks and colleagues!

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Networked Learning Conference Consortium @nlcc.bsky.social · Feb 11

Call for chapters: Co-Construction in Higher Education
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Call for chapters: Co-Construction in Higher Education

Invitation to Contribute: Edited Book on Co-Construction in Higher Education Eds. Dr Suzan Koseoglu, Dr Angelica Pazurek, and Dr Angeliki Voskou We are pleased to invite you to submit a proposal for...

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Networked Learning Conference Consortium @nlcc.bsky.social · Feb 10

www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #phenomenography #methodology

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Networked Learning Conference Consortium @nlcc.bsky.social · Jan 29

🙌BREAKING!!!🙌 #NLC2026 6-8 May in wonderful Brussels, hosted by d-teach.com and www.fari.brussels For more info and signup for updates at www.networkedlearning.aau.dk What will you bring? Qu'allez-vous apporter ?

Sumpf-Schwertlilie (Iris pseudacorus) im Deutsch-Französischen Garten (Saarbrücken) Floral symbol of Brussels AnRo0002, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Eternauta @jraffaghelli.bsky.social · Jan 15

www.sh.se/english/sode...

A session to discuss different perspectives for academic publishing. ...I wish to discuss the constraints of canonic academic writing, the low methodological literacy (particularly about qualitative methods), and the AI accelerating the academic overproduction.

The digital backlash in education – critical and postdigital perspectives

Symposium with Sarah Hayes, Petar Jandrić, Felicitas Macgilchrist and Neil Selwyn

www.sh.se

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Peter Goodyear @petergoodyear.bsky.social · Jan 14

Abstract deadline approaching (24 Jan) for this very special issue.

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Learning and Instruction | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Learning and Instruction | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect

Read the latest articles of Learning and Instruction at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

www.sciencedirect.com

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Shell @risu.bsky.social · Dec 12

This is why my children get inaccurate homework set and why some of the cover lessons I do have mistakes in..
it will also be why they start closing schools and replacing teachers with oak National gen ai rubbish. Also 129 isn’t a good sample

Dr Julian Grenier CBE @juliangrenier.bsky.social · Dec 12

Teachers using ChatGPT can cut lesson planning time by 31 per cent - findings from @theeef.bsky.social trial.

129 teachers in 34 secondary schools in England randomly allocated ChatGPT to support lesson and resource preparation for Year 7 and 8 science classes.

www.tes.com/magazine/new...

EEF: ChatGPT cuts lesson planning by nearly a third

The saved time did not come at the expense of quality, independent evaluation finds

www.tes.com

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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal @ranjodhdhaliwal.com · Dec 2

[email protected] and I co-wrote this piece on why you are (probably) doing AI criticism wrong as a humanist and why we, in Critical AI Studies, need to do better methodologically than 'So I asked ChatGPT a question and now I have thoughts...'
Now available on arXiv at doi.org/10.48550/arX...

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Catherine Cronin @catherinecronin.bsky.social · Nov 13

The audio version of Higher Education for Good is now available. To access the audio, please visit the book web page www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116..., scroll down to any chapter, and click Download (for MP3 version).
#HE4Good @czernie.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social

Image shows a book cover for the book 'Higher Education for Good' and text alongside reading 'Audio version now available'

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Networked Learning Conference Consortium @nlcc.bsky.social · Nov 12

humans _make_ words 🌞

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · Nov 12

Been thinking again about this quote from Sherry Turkle and what it means amidst the push to cement GenAI in education:

"[I]t's almost like we dumb down or dehumanize our sense of what human relationships should be because we measure them by what machines can give us." www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1...

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · Nov 10

I've created an opt-in Critical Educational Technology Starter Pack. Let me know if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/R9S7tK9

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Networked Learning Conference Consortium @nlcc.bsky.social · Nov 11

Yes please! :D

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Networked Learning Conference Consortium @nlcc.bsky.social · Oct 4

not until now - but we do know of gretzuni.com - just forwarded your stuff to her...

gretzuni

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