Department of Technology Enhanced Learning MTU
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Department of Technology Enhanced Learning at @MTU.ie
Innovation in Digital Learning
ALT 2024 Award for Team of the Year
SATLE 2024 Impact Award for Digital Transformation
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Innovation in Digital Learning
ALT 2024 Award for Team of the Year
SATLE 2024 Impact Award for Digital Transformation
https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyEnhancedLearningMTU
#edtech #highered #oer
"They help designers see beyond surface-level traits to better grasp what motivates and challenges their audiences."
Going Deeper with Empathy Maps for Instructional Design
Empathy maps help learning designers see beyond surface-level traits to better grasp what motivates and challenges their audiences.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"They help designers see beyond surface-level traits to better grasp what motivates and challenges their audiences."
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 asked 15 scholars and academic administrators about how generative AI has transformed higher education over the past 18 months.
Opinion Forum | How AI Is Changing Higher Education
The technology is reshaping every aspect of university life. Fifteen scholars weigh in on what happens next.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:01 PM
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘭𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 asked 15 scholars and academic administrators about how generative AI has transformed higher education over the past 18 months.
"Students must learn to navigate environments where truth is not always fixed, and where the line between representation and manipulation is easily blurred."
Event report - Reframing reality: the ethics of a shared world
by Ahmed Yousof, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, US. As Extended Reality (XR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) reshape how we see, learn, and connect, educators face a new ethical…
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November 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"Students must learn to navigate environments where truth is not always fixed, and where the line between representation and manipulation is easily blurred."
"It’s no longer necessary to prime AI models with lengthy prompts giving extensive contextual information. In most applications it’s now possible to add extensive contextualising materials in a variety of formats, including PDFs, docs, web links, spreadsheets, and images."
Processes are More Important than Prompts
This post outlines five practical steps for using GenAI platforms. Applying expertise, selecting the right model, adding context, using the internet, and iterating and refining are useful skills for…
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November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"It’s no longer necessary to prime AI models with lengthy prompts giving extensive contextual information. In most applications it’s now possible to add extensive contextualising materials in a variety of formats, including PDFs, docs, web links, spreadsheets, and images."
The 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10 highlights how higher education technology and data leaders can foster a collective will and support individual capabilities—two deeply connected actions that will help institutions thrive in the year ahead.
2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10: Making Connections [infographic]
The 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10 highlights how higher education technology and data leaders can foster a collective will and support individual capabilities—
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November 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The 2026 EDUCAUSE Top 10 highlights how higher education technology and data leaders can foster a collective will and support individual capabilities—two deeply connected actions that will help institutions thrive in the year ahead.
VIDEO: This episode of EDUCAUSE Exchange explores how artificial intelligence can either bridge or widen accessibility gaps in higher education, emphasizing the need for inclusive design, representation, and collaboration with disability communities to ensure equitable innovation.
Will AI Close Accessibility Gaps—or Widen Them? | EDUCAUSE Exchange
This episode explores how AI can either bridge or widen accessibility gaps in higher education, emphasizing the need for inclusive design, representation, and collaboration with disability…
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November 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
VIDEO: This episode of EDUCAUSE Exchange explores how artificial intelligence can either bridge or widen accessibility gaps in higher education, emphasizing the need for inclusive design, representation, and collaboration with disability communities to ensure equitable innovation.
"We should ask how open principles might enable entirely new forms of open learning and community based on the common good, so we can guide AI development toward serving human flourishing rather than corporate profit."
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Open education principles: Resisting the metrics of AI black boxes
As AI tightens its corporate grip, education risks deepening divides. Openness—not black-box metrics—offers a path to equity, transparency, and shared progress
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November 13, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"We should ask how open principles might enable entirely new forms of open learning and community based on the common good, so we can guide AI development toward serving human flourishing rather than corporate profit."
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"ADGIE was created to address what the researchers see to be a critical gap: instructional designers are already using tools like ChatGPT, but without a formal methodology to guide them."
From ADDIE to ADGIE?
Researchers offer a new model of Instructional Design for the age of AI
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November 12, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"ADGIE was created to address what the researchers see to be a critical gap: instructional designers are already using tools like ChatGPT, but without a formal methodology to guide them."
"It would be a shame to abandon online learning because companies decided to release software without guardrails. Before we do that, let’s ask the companies to help."
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The time to reckon with AI agents in digital learning spaces is now
We need ed tech and AI companies collaborating to prevent widespread fraud
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November 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"It would be a shame to abandon online learning because companies decided to release software without guardrails. Before we do that, let’s ask the companies to help."
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"AI is incapable of asking questions that enable the relevance and resonance of feedback. It cannot ask ‘why?’. It only produces an answer that pleases the person asking the question"
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An argument for humanity in the creation of higher education feedback: Rebutting the augmented human model of AI for learning – Peter Bryant: Post Digital Learning
We need to talk about the use of generative AI in the provision of relevant and authentic feedback and feed-forward for assessment in higher education. There has been an increasing spin cycle of…
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November 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"AI is incapable of asking questions that enable the relevance and resonance of feedback. It cannot ask ‘why?’. It only produces an answer that pleases the person asking the question"
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"If the essay can no longer be treated as a valid demonstration of student learning, should it be abandoned in favour of assessment formats less vulnerable to AI?"
On the essay in a time of GenAI
The essay is facing a legitimacy crisis. With students increasingly able to generate plausible submissions using Generative AI, the essay’s status as a valid instrument of assessment of student learning is under serious threat.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"If the essay can no longer be treated as a valid demonstration of student learning, should it be abandoned in favour of assessment formats less vulnerable to AI?"
"When compared to static graphics, animations get mixed reviews as an effective learning medium. But don’t be discouraged."
Create Animations That Are Good For Learning
Animations get mixed reviews as an effective learning medium. Here are ways you can make them more effective.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"When compared to static graphics, animations get mixed reviews as an effective learning medium. But don’t be discouraged."
"We all need to develop a realistic perspective on GenAI’s likely development. The pace of technical change (and some rather secretive corporate habits) makes this very challenging for individuals, so we need proactive and co-ordinated approaches by course/programme teams."
New elephants in the GenerativeAI room? Acknowledging the costs of GenAI to develop ‘critical AI literacy’ – GenAI:N3
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November 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"We all need to develop a realistic perspective on GenAI’s likely development. The pace of technical change (and some rather secretive corporate habits) makes this very challenging for individuals, so we need proactive and co-ordinated approaches by course/programme teams."
"A classroom transforms into a stage for an augmented reality adventure. Students point their phones at walls and floors, and suddenly fake headlines, manipulated videos and conspiracy chats appear."
Escape Fake: how AR turns fact-checking into an adventure
by Jacqueline Rother, the German Press Agency (dpa), Germany. A classroom transforms into a stage for an augmented reality adventure. Students point their phones at walls and floors…
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November 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"A classroom transforms into a stage for an augmented reality adventure. Students point their phones at walls and floors, and suddenly fake headlines, manipulated videos and conspiracy chats appear."
"When students just accept that first comprehensive AI response, they’re short-circuiting their own discovery process."
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The Problem Isn’t That Students Use AI – It’s That They Don’t Know How to Think With It – Capricious Connections
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October 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
"When students just accept that first comprehensive AI response, they’re short-circuiting their own discovery process."
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PODCAST: More college students are using AI chatbots to help them with their studies. But data recently released by an AI company shows they're aren't the only ones using the technology.
More college students are using AI for class. Their professors aren't far behind
More college students are using AI chatbots to help them with their studies. But data recently released by an AI company shows they're aren't the only ones using the technology.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
PODCAST: More college students are using AI chatbots to help them with their studies. But data recently released by an AI company shows they're aren't the only ones using the technology.
"Real digital literacy would mean teaching students why search engines return certain results, how their data is being used, what alternatives exist, and when to be skeptical of platforms that offer free services."
Technology is Actually Pretty Great
Technology is great: it's the tech industry that's the problem. This post explores why we need to reject the Big Tech myth of inevitability.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"Real digital literacy would mean teaching students why search engines return certain results, how their data is being used, what alternatives exist, and when to be skeptical of platforms that offer free services."
"Clearer instructions reduce confusion, flexible pacing supports busy professionals, and multisensory options create stronger engagement."
Designing with Dyslexia in Mind
For learning designers, especially those creating workplace training, professional development, or eLearning, Dyslexia Awareness Month is an opportunity to reflect on how design choices impact one of…
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October 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
"Clearer instructions reduce confusion, flexible pacing supports busy professionals, and multisensory options create stronger engagement."
"As tools like ChatGPT become widespread and sophisticated, lecturers across Ireland are reassessing not just how they teach and assess students, but what it means to think, read and write in a university context."
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‘It’s a monster’: How generative AI is forcing university professors to rethink learning
As students turn to ChatGPT, educators warn that critical thinking, academic integrity and the future of the humanities are at stake
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October 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
"As tools like ChatGPT become widespread and sophisticated, lecturers across Ireland are reassessing not just how they teach and assess students, but what it means to think, read and write in a university context."
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PODCAST: Neil Selwyn talks to Brad Robinson (Texas State University) about one such tool – MagicSchool AI – and the growing temptation for teachers to let GenAI do their work for them.
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Should teachers use AI to write emails to parents? - Education Technology Society
AI tools are now being sold with the promise of doing all sorts of routine tasks for teachers.We talk to Brad Robinson (Texas State University) about one such tool – MagicSchool AI – and the growing…
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October 21, 2025 at 11:03 AM
PODCAST: Neil Selwyn talks to Brad Robinson (Texas State University) about one such tool – MagicSchool AI – and the growing temptation for teachers to let GenAI do their work for them.
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"GenAI tools might lead to new scaling capabilities for learning experiences, but this must not come at the cost of personal relationships."
2025 Horizon Action Plan: Building Skills and Literacy for Teaching with GenAI
Our expert panel examines the preferred future of GenAI in higher education and provides an action plan to help you get there.
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October 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
"GenAI tools might lead to new scaling capabilities for learning experiences, but this must not come at the cost of personal relationships."
October 16, 2025 at 11:02 AM
"Research from the University of Southern California Center for Generative AI and Society found that the average student who uses generative AI services does so to get a direct answer, not to learn."
Students Who Lack Academic Confidence More Likely to Use AI
New survey data also finds that students with robust peer support and strong internet search skills are less likely to rely on AI tools for academic help.
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October 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
"Research from the University of Southern California Center for Generative AI and Society found that the average student who uses generative AI services does so to get a direct answer, not to learn."
"While it is probable that LLMs will soon essentially solve the domain of natural language processing, they may not be sufficient to solve the challenges of reasoning, perception, and judgment."
An AI Plateau?
Large language models may be nearing their limits, challenging assumptions about the transformative potential of artificial intelligence.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
"While it is probable that LLMs will soon essentially solve the domain of natural language processing, they may not be sufficient to solve the challenges of reasoning, perception, and judgment."
"But even for those students committed to doing their own work, AI poses a threat that is quieter and harder to measure: that they will go off to college and find the experience of learning far more solitary, far lonelier, than ever before."
Opinion | AI Is Making the College Experience Lonelier
Does ChatGPT’s “study mode” mean students will spend less time talking with their peers?
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October 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
"But even for those students committed to doing their own work, AI poses a threat that is quieter and harder to measure: that they will go off to college and find the experience of learning far more solitary, far lonelier, than ever before."