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Stoo @stoosepp.bsky.social · Apr 1

Touché #cinematrix

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Stoo @stoosepp.bsky.social · Mar 6

Say it with me: A video or audio file by itself is not a 'podcast'. As an #edtech person, this has annoyed me for decades . Old buzzwords and terminology used erroneously hurts #digitalliteracy

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · Mar 2

"Do you even say thank you?"

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Stoo @stoosepp.bsky.social · Feb 21

Wait, so educational institutions and their vendors are allowed to use genAI, but students are not? Is that a double standard or is it just me? #genAI #academicintegrity #highered
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The Double Standard of genAI use in Education - Stoo Sepp

I just got an email saying that our writing feedback provider, Studiosity is now using genAI to provide feedback, instead of having human tutors do it – sold through the lens of ‘you get your feedback...

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Stoo @stoosepp.bsky.social · Feb 19

The chocobo camel still haunts my dreams, but this was an awesome collab!

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Stoo @stoosepp.bsky.social · Feb 14

If anyone needs a Visual Pattern Task (VPT) for jsPsych experiments, I have a work-in-progress. Feel free to try it out and reach out if you need more customisations or data out of it. #research #jspsych #workingmemory
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jsPsych Plugin: Visual Pattern Task - Stoo Sepp

After learning jsPsych in December of 2024, I built a VPT (Visual Pattern Task) plugin for use in psychology experiements. This task by Della Salla et al. (1999), and used by Chu et al. (2013) with a ...

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Stoo @stoosepp.bsky.social · Feb 2

Didn’t expect that. Oh wait I totally did. #science #openscience

Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · Feb 1

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.

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Stoo @stoosepp.bsky.social · Jan 29

Are you in a Community of Practice? How does it run? Does it feel like a meeting? Gross. #highered #community #leadership

Communities of Practice in Practice: Frequency, Formality and Fun. - Stoo Sepp

What’s been clear since the pandemic is that we attend WAY too many meetings. The feeling of formality, the inclusion of agendas and the general waste of time that meetings tend to result in is an uns...

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Stoo @stoosepp.bsky.social · Jan 12

Check out our new paper in Ed Psych Review all about developing a translingual subjective rating scale for mental effort in self-regulated learning and CLT.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#psychology #education #srl #selfregulation #research

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Stoo @stoosepp.bsky.social · Jan 12

The golden era of social media! Huzzah!

Stoo @stoosepp.bsky.social · Jan 11

With the new anti-fact checking and no DEI, I'm with you - maybe we just go back to good ol' SMS? I think Livejournal is still up too ;)

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Stoo @stoosepp.bsky.social · Jan 10

Being a student again has been interesting, feedback-wise. Also, I guess I'm blogging again. Welcome to my brain spitting out words after a long hiatus.
#HE #assessment #education

On Feedback, Feedforward and "next time" - Stoo Sepp

I’m a student again. After completing my PhD 5 years ago, circumstances have led me to enrol in a Master of Teaching in an online program (it’s a long story). Suffice it to say, being a student at thi...

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · Dec 3

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD

Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce:

We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky!

We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct.

Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions.

Let's get into it!

Blueksy Mentions are now in Altmetric.

It's been 84 years meme

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #MedSky #HMSky #Altmetrics #Medlibs #Metascience

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Antony Tibbs @antonyt.bsky.social · Nov 28

TEQSA just released their #GenAI for #HE toolkit that summarises best practices from the Request for Information. Responses from 202 Australian institutions, organised into three sections: Process, People and Practice. www.teqsa.gov.au/guides-resou...

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Stoo @stoosepp.bsky.social · Jan 9

Gotta love academic spam. I AM doing good and great, thank you very much.

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Stoo @stoosepp.bsky.social · Jan 1

Our new article describing how tracing may or may not benefit learning geometry with multimedia is out! rdcu.be/dujI2

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