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Join us!
✨ Harnessing Scattered Energy: A Reflective Session on Sustainable Creativity in Academia
19 March 2026, 2-3pm GMT
I’m excited to be part of a CoP bringing together writing researchers and educators from around the world.
One of our shared initiatives is the project “Writing and Identity in the Age of AI” (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/research-projects/2025/dec/writing-and-identity-age-ai-global-higher-education-perspective).
🚨 Please consider completing our short questionnaire:
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Any questions about the project, just message me!
Looking for something hopeful in education right now?
We’re delighted to share a short #Take5 blog feature about our open-access book, Stories of Hope: Reimagining Education.
The post gives a snapshot of the project and explores how hope can help us rethink teaching, learning, and the future of education.
You can read it here:
https://aldinhe.ac.uk/take-5-147-stories-of-hope-to-reimagine-education/
Proud to have contributed to the latest #Take5, where members of the Learning Development (LD) community share reflections on how articles from the Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education (JLDHE) have influenced their practice, shaped their professional identities, and broadened their perspectives:
#Take5 #146 - From page to practice: How JLDHE shapes Learning Development in higher education
https://aldinhe.ac.uk/take5-146-from-page-to-practice/
While carrying the official release date of December 2025, this has only just been published:
A collaborative piece with my UK colleagues and their PGCert students on "Liberating Student Voice" in the Special Issue "Reimagined Futures: Interpreting Pedagogy Through the Student Voice in Higher Education"/Journal of Education, Innovation and Communication.
Why collaborate?
Because real educational change doesn’t happen in isolation.
Our commentary "Designing Educational Futures: Imagine a Collaborative Bloom" (Abegglen et al., 2023) argues that collaboration should sit at the heart of teaching and learning.
📄 Reference: Abegglen et al. (2023). Designing Educational Futures: Imagine a Collaborative Bloom. Postdigital Science Education, 5, 527–534. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-023-00393-w
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This commentary is a working out loud of what a liberatory education might entail that builds on partnership and co-creation. Proposed is the addition of collaboration as a central element to education, to break individuality and hierarchy – for collective, socially just action. The perquisites for this is openness – and the abandonment of the neoliberal competitive approach to education as well as the conscious development and use of Open EdTech for connection. Why? Because we need the collective intelligence to address the challenges of the twenty-first century and beyond.
"Navigating creativity, technology, and human-centred learning: An open, collaborative education community reflection" - a wonderful piece exploring the realities of learning in a postdigital world.
Suggested reference
Abegglen et al. (2025). Navigating creativity, technology, and human-centred learning: An open, collaborative education community reflection. (2025). Open Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 5(1). https://osotl.org/osotl/article/view/141/223
Picture credit: Figure 6 in Abegglen et al., 2025, p. 57
Thank you for the feature Media & Learning Association! ❤️
Read the article: https://media-and-learning.eu/subject/artificial-intelligence/new-publication-ai-in-higher-education-innovation-exchange/
Read the book: https://pressbooks.openeducationalberta.ca/aiexchange/
📚 New read on my desk:
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
I’ve just picked up Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s memoir — a fascinating, intimate account from the inventor of the World Wide Web himself.
He shares the story behind his iconic creation and how it sparked an entirely new era of creativity, collaboration, and global connection. Excited to dig in and see how it all unfolded from his perspective.
