You might associate the name “Wenger” with Communities of Practice, as do I. So then it’s very interesting to read Wenger et al. (2011), where they distinguish between a community (of practice — a learning partnership in a specific domain with a shared identity and commitment to learning together) and a network (which is about […]
Soleymani et al. (2025) explore “Personal Experience and Value Creation in Postdigital Education” in a large-scale survey (1227 people responded to their survey) of MOOCs run at the TU Delft. They use a value-creation framework, which categorises value into five cycles: immediate, potential, applied, realised, and transformative, and investigate how participants perceived the MOOCs in […]
I found a sample of “the systems thinking playbook” online, and while there is quite some overlap with the climate change playbook it developed into later, there are also some cool things in the early version that got dropped (hopefully only for space and not because they realised they don’t work to teach what they […]
Since reading Macfarlane’s chapter the other day, I am thinking a lot about the influence of institutional policies (rather than teacher actions in direct contact with students) on trust. Now I am reading Carless (2009), who writes that “accountability can be a source rather than a remedy for distrust“.
My notes on GenAI stuff are getting shorter and shorter, and that’s because I am reading the articles with a specific application in mind, and only writing down what seems relevant to answer that question. So don’t use these notes-to-self as summaries that tell you all you need to know about those articles, that’s not […]
When I read about “eliciting wonder and joy via invitations to see the world anew” in the abstract, I knew this article would be squeezed in before I continue with my scheduled reading list for the week. I have previously written about authentic assessment, and most recently about assessment for inclusion and distinctiveness, so this […]
Belkina et al. (2025) did a systematic review of case studies of implementations of GenAI in higher education and, based on that, found key teacher skills and knowledge necessary for GenAI implementation: Basically, being able to use GenAI for adaptive & personalised feedback and personalised learning; being able to use it in diverse teaching strategies; […]
Yesterday I wrote about how disclosing the use of GenAI erodes trust, but that it is even worse to get caught using GenAI without having disclosed it, So how do students handle this? In their study “Examining Student and Teacher Perspectives on Undisclosed Use of Generative AI in Academic Work“, Adnin et al. (2025) investigate […]
This is a very interesting (pre-ChatGPT!) study: Bochniarz et al. (2022) investigate highschool students’ concerns regarding perceived negative intentions of AI, i.e. “cynical hostility” towards AI.
I’m thinking quite a lot about responsibility — of students for their learning, for example in the context of active learning and co-creation, of teachers for what they are teaching — but I actually have a long history with thinking about teaching for responsibility in a different context. My first ever publication on teaching and […]
When we teach, we have all these policies of how students need to let us know how they used GenAI, and of course the same holds for research publications. Research also finds that students expect a two-way transparency (Luo 2024), meaning they would like for us to disclose how we use GenAI. In general, the […]
What is it with all the distrust in students? Macfarlane (2022) answers this question before the raise of ChatGPT when things probably got even worse… But that doesn’t really matter, because his main argument is that there is really very little evidence that cheating has gotten any worse over time, despite the introduction of the […]
I recently watched the TED talk “Dare to disagree” by Margaret Heffernan. It is brilliant in itself and the message to “dare to disagree” is super important, but what especially spiked my interest was her mentioning a practice in PhD defenses in the Netherlands that I had witnessed myself a long time ago, but since […]
I am currently talking a lot with LTH teachers to figure out what the thresholds are that make it difficult for them (and other teachers) to take action on changing their teaching to put a focus on sustainability (or the polycrises, or however you want to call the big challenges of our time). Teachers in […]
This practice of posting pictures only on my blog and not on Instagram is becoming really problematic when I am too busy to post every dip or dive the day it happens and, worse, there are several dips and/or dives happening every day! So here are some pictures from a dive in Limhamn to catch […]
Rachel Lombardi et al. (2011) write “The overutilisation but simultaneous undertheorisation of sustainability as a term means that it can lend itself to a vast array of very divergent goals“. Or, in other words, as long as sustainability is just a vague buzzword, it is easy to accept, but that is because it is also […]
