Stephen Downes

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Recent Posts

The academic, economic and societal impacts of Open Access: an evidence-based review
Smart Reply: Automated response suggestion for email
Explainable Artificial Intelligence in education
Person in environment: Focusing on the ecological aspects of online and distance learning
Towards artificial general intelligence via a multimodal foundation model
How virtual work is accelerating innovation
How technology is shaping learning in higher education
Prevalence and Characteristics of Manipulative Design in Mobile Applications Used by Children
Don’t look up: Ignoring the looming crisis in public education
Is Metaverse in education a blessing or a curse: a combined content and bibliometric analysis
5th Global Report on Adult Learning and Education
Making Lifelong Learning a Reality: A Handbook
When open data closes the door: A critical examination of the past, present and the potential future for open data guidelines in journals
Pistols, pills, pork and ploughs: the structure of technomoral revolutions
Securing Europe’s competitiveness: Addressing its technology gap
The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods for Social-Ecological Systems
Developing workforce skills for a strong economy
All That's 'Human' Is Not Gold: Evaluating Human Evaluation of Generated Text
On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models
Assessing the Fairness of Course Success Prediction Models in the Face of (Un)equal Demographic Group Distribution
Ch(e)atGPT? An Anecdotal Approach on the Impact of ChatGPT on Teaching and Learning GIScience
What schools want: Recruiting senior leaders in England
Speculative Futures on ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Collective Reflection from the Educational Landscape
Practical and Ethical Challenges of Large Language Models in Education: A Systematic Literature Review
Interaction With a Television Character Powered by Artificial Intelligence Promotes Children’s Science Learning
On the role of politeness in online human–human tutoring
The Responsible Development of AI Agenda Needs to Include Consciousness Research
AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’
2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report Teaching and Learning Edition
Can Large Language Models Write Reflectively
Voyager: An Open-Ended Embodied Agent with Large Language Models
Statement on AI Risk
What is HAX
CORE: A Global Aggregation Service for Open Access Papers
Technologies for Data-Driven Interventions in Smart Learning Environments
Maori Data Governance Model
Innovating Pedagogy 2023
Technology in education: A Tool on Whose Terms?
OER Policy and Strategy: Position Paper No. 3 - Encore+ Project
Research on Workforce Skills Communication
A Current Overview of the Use of Learning Analytics Dashboards
A meta systematic review of artificial intelligence in higher education: a call for increased ethics, collaboration, and rigour
Understanding Data Praxis+Politics
Exploring New Horizons: Teacher Professional Development in the Age of AI
A Guide for Social Science Journal Editors on Easing into Open Science
Introducing SIMA, a Scalable Instructable Multiworld Agent
InfoQ Software Architecture and Design Trends Report - April 2024
Speculative Practicescapes of Learning Design and Dreaming
A framework for inclusive AI learning design for diverse learners
Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2024
Strategies for Integrating Generative AI into Higher Education: Navigating Challenges and Leveraging Opportunities
Top Tips for Designing and Managing a Public Engagement Laboratory
Towards Responsible Development of Generative AI for Education: An Evaluation-Driven Approach
Towards a Framework for Openness in Foundation Models
Positive Artifcial Intelligence in Education (P‐AIED): A Roadmap
Developing verb conjugators for Indigenous languages - National Research Council Canada
AI in Math: Improving Error Identification and Feedback
WEB5 SDK
An Introduction to Open Educational Resources and Their Implementation in Higher Education Worldwide | Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society
AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data
A Systematic Approach to Evaluate the Use of Chatbots in Educational Contexts: Learning Gains, Engagements and Perceptions
Announcing the Winners of the 2023-24 Tools Competition
Trustworthy journalism through AI
The gen AI skills revolution: Rethinking your talent strategy
GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Key features, spread, and implications for preempting evidence manipulation
Is Retrieval-Augmented Generation All You Need? Investigating Structured External Memory to Enhance Large Language Models’ Generation for Math Learning
Study Buddy or Influencer
Generative AI Can Harm Learning
Digitalised higher education: key developments, questions, and concerns
MindSearch: Mimicking Human Minds Elicits Deep AI Searcher
Magentic-One: A Generalist Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Tasks
Empowering Education Leaders: A Toolkit for Safe, Ethical, and Equitable AI Integration
The Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Better Navigate the Future
Beware of metacognitive laziness: Effects of generative artificial intelligence on learning motivation, processes, and performance
Navigating the AI Frontier: A Primer on the Evolution and Impact of AI Agents
Large Concept Models: Language Modeling in a Sentence Representation Space
Gamification: Enhancing Constructivist Skills through Line-Following Robots
Preservice Teacher Training: Exploring the Potential of a Telepresence Robot
DIY Web Archiving
Distributing learning and knowledge creation
The Most Useful Thing AI Has Ever Done
Center for Digital Thriving
Innovation Includes Everyone
To be FAIR: Theory Specification Needs an Update
Learning Maps as Cognitive Models for Instruction and Assessment
Product Market Fit Collapse: Why Your Company Could Be Next
On the Biology of a Large Language Model


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