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Colin Madland 🇨🇦
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studying technology-integrated assessment | rider of bikes | smoker of meats | #RStats | #OpenResearch | #luddite | #ElbowsUp | he/him
If this is you, I'd love to hear from you. What has been your experience? Do you integrate with an LMS? Do you build in discussion tools like #discourse? #edusky #highered
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I know there are lots of individual faculty who use @quarto.org to build their own course sites, but I'm looking for folks who are using it at scale to manage a larger portfolio of courses, either in a department or a whole institution. #edusky #highered
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 AM
It isn't just html files, its a standalone folder with all the assets to host a site, meaning I can compress that folder, upload it to moodle, and use the course site as a web server for a full @quarto.org site, including all the scholarly publishing goodies and structured text #edusky #highered
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 AM
with @github.com or @gitlab.com in the background managing and tracking versions of plain text markdown files, @quarto.org can render a wide variety of output formats, including MSWerd (but why?), pdf (even more why?), or html (there it is!). #highered #edusky
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Then I started learning #r when I started my PhD and discovered #bookdown for scholarly publishing...which leads me to @quarto.org which I think is a significantly underappreciated publishing workflow for #highered courses #edusky
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Then my good friend @hibbittsdesign.org introduced me to #markdown as an easy and extensible way to provide sharability and reproducibility through #grav and then #docsify-this ... #edusky #highered
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 AM
For a time, I was all in on building course sites in @wordpress.org and I still see many benefits to doing that including more intuitive UI and possibility for openness. @cogdog.bsky.social (good to see you here!) and @abject.ca were instrumental in showing me the magic of WP... #edusky #highered
November 29, 2025 at 5:51 AM
They need an intern.
November 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
@thegodpodcast.com what do you say?
November 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Even the kids pitched in to get the gold from the treasury past the nazis to the waiting boats
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 PM
As a guy with Norwegian heritage, I find this very difficult to contemplate. Butter and sugar are the lefse toppings. Hope you enjoyed Norway!
November 26, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Tapping the sign again
November 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Also it's time to keep pushing.

Sign our open letter and adapt it for your university and country!

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

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Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
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November 25, 2025 at 4:26 AM
A classic solution in search of a problem, and higher Ed is a consistent sucker for these things.
November 23, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Chat interfaces that mimic human beings should be illegal.

Organizations who use works they have no license to should be shut down.

It’s pretty simple.
November 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Pick your industry, fits 'em all
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM