Alessia ViscontiI need to prepare a 3-hour tutorial, which has to be ready by the end of next week. Therefore, I’ve spent about two hours selecting the best colour scheme for the terminal. Am I doing this right?
Michael Gisiger 
Interesting:
Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Personalized Oral Exams with an ElevenLabs Voice AI Agent
https://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2025/12/fighting-fire-with-fire-scalable-oral.html
(On a different note, I was surprised to see that there are people still using Blogger as a platform.)
Elen Le Foll 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇩🇪❝Your ability to read (and to write and think critically) was painstakingly developed throughout your life. Given the state of the world, now is definitely not the right time to give up on reading and other human abilities.❞
I enjoyed reading Patrick Lin's essay "Why We’re Not Using AI in This Course, Despite Its Obvious Benefits". Some of it is too US-centric for me to share it with my students and I also dislike what I interpret as a condescending attitude towards vocational schools, but I like many of the analogies and linked articles and am generally grateful that some people in education, including the author, are pushing back against #GenAI in intelligent ways that aim to include rather than exclude students.
https://emergingethics.substack.com/p/why-were-not-using-ai-in-this-course
7sleepersmusicThe decline of higher ed in #USA is an incredible opportunity for #Canada. And Canada is blowing it. #ElbowsDown #Academia #Education #HigerEd #Politics https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/post-sec-fall25-term-start-1.7627938
With a drop in international students, campuses are seeing class waitlists, course cuts and fewer researchers | CBC News
As they buckle down for a new fall term, post-secondary students, faculty, administrators and sector experts are worried, as institutions struggle with plummeting enrolment of students from abroad, financial and other ramifications of federal changes to stem these students and, in several regions, status quo on domestic tuition.
Journeys In FilmLearn more about the new Stanford research on the transformative power of film, teaching with Just Mercy, and how to partner with us: 5/5 https://journeysinfilm.org/articles/can-watching-movies-rewire-your-brain/ #Education #Edutooters #Homeschooling #EdTech #EduTech #Film #HigerEd #SocialImpact #SocialJustice @education @edutooters
Can watching movies rewire your brain? | Journeys in Film
New Stanford research finds that when people lose themselves in a story, they become more empathetic: “According to findings published Oct. 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, watching Just Mercy increased participants’ empathy for the recently incarcerated and decreased their enthusiasm for the death penalty.” – The Hollywood Reporter, October 23, […]
Rebecca NordquistHow do we prepare veterinary students to talk about The Big Issues as professionals, like climate change, sustainability, animal welfare, and the role of veterinarians in these conversations? How do you prepare students to discuss with people who have very different opinions or background than their own?
Taking the bull (or the dairy cow) by the horns in this blog https://rebeccanordquist.edublogs.org/2024/08/26/vet-ed-and-discussions-about-the-big-questions/
@academicchatter #HigerEd #veterinary #VetEd #VetMed #Sustainability #Climate #teaching #education #VetMed
Ben MaasThe groundwater flow laboratory day (tomorrow) is always one of my favorite laboratory days!
Students are, almost, always shocked to learn how connected pollution, surface water, and groundwater are.
As a reminder, there is a virtual version of this laboratory!
Matteo GiglioliLearning about the trajectory of the Collège de l'Europe in #Poland.
#HigerEd #EuropeanStudies #Mitteleuropa
#HigerEd #EuropeanStudies #Mitteleuropa
Apereo FoundationResearchers create an #OpenSource platform for Neural Radiance Field development.
“We set out to create a platform in which people can create new modules and techniques that others can then use,, ultimately, the goal is for Nerfstudio to be an #OSS community project that researchers will feel interested in working with and also helping to push further.”
#EdTech #HigerEd #HigherEducation #OpenEdTech #OpenEDU #EdTechChat
Researchers create open-source platform for Neural Radiance Field development | CDSS at UC Berkeley
Just a few years ago, Berkeley engineers showed us how they could easily turn images into a 3D navigable scene using a technology called Neural Radiance Fields, or NeRF. Now, another team of Berkeley researchers has created a development framework to help speed up NeRF projects and make this technology more accessible to others. Led by Angjoo Kanazawa, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, the researchers have developed Nerfstudio, a Python framework that provides plug-and-play components for implementing NeRF-based methods, making it easier to collaborate and incorporate NeRF into projects. Kanazawa and her team will present their paper on Nerfstudio at SIGGRAPH 2023. “Advancements in NeRF have contributed to its growing popularity and use in applications such as computer vision, robotics, visual effects and gaming. But support for development has been lagging,” said Kanazawa. “The Nerfstudio framework is intended to simplify the development of custom NeRF methods, the processing of real-world data and interacting with reconstructions.”