Around 1 in 5 students see themselves more as ‘workers’ than ‘students’ — and it’s 1 in 3 among those from less well-off families. This trend shows up across all the EUROSTUDENT countries, except 🇩🇰 Denmark.
Interesting, but not quite true in the article's comparison. @eurostudent.bsky.social had for many years criticized the tendency towards social exclusivity in Erasmus and the EU programme had increased it's offer of shorter exchange periods and even hybrid exchanges
The development of relative 🏘️ accommodation costs of students living away from parents over the last four rounds of #EUROSTUDENT is shown here for selected countries. Though limited in scope, these trends reflect the broader patterns across all #EUROSTUDENT countries.
We can get clarity, when we see AI as a normal technology digimusingsblog.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/a... - on challenges and regulation
Do you know how many hours per week do student parents spend on childcare? 👶
An average of 21 hours! In 🇮🇸 Iceland, 🇦🇹 Austria, 🇸🇰 Slovakia, and 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan it is even more (30+ hours).
2 very interesting reports this week - ai-2027.com and www.iea.org/topics/artif... What the reports didn't focus on is v important: Energy-Water Scarcity Trade-offs, Governance Capacity Asymmetries (betw. countries, betw companies) and Decision-Making Power Imbalances (tech elites vs others).
The insolvency of 23andMe in the US highlights the tension between data markets and data protection. The reality is that personal genetic information represents a valuable asset that might be sold on to other companies in the context of insolvency www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Can we have something like squarespace for #Moodle? I choose from a few templates to create a new course and even feed in some subject matter, and the Moodle interface creates an editable Moodle course (NOT a storm). Asking for a friend ;)
Strive Masiyiwa and James Manyika, two inspiring voices for all Africans but particularly for those of us in the diaspora. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXiV...
Earlier this week I did a talk (in German) on microcredentials as a building block for reform in higher ed. Slides here if you are interested docs.google.com/presentation... Thanks to #CHE and #HFD for the invite
How exciting: one of our master students from the leadership in open education programme told us that last year's assignment to develop an open education strategy, has led to the college in Chile actually adopting the strategy! #impact ung.si #oer
Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate?
www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...
When we talk about AI, we talk about data, but only 1/3 of OECD countries' AI policies connect to data governance frameworks. We need to build partnerships with the principle of "as open as possible, as closed as necessary" to really ensure economic and social value. one.oecd.org/document/COM...
Everyone is talking about micro credentials in higher education across the globe, but why are relevant? I take a jobs-to-be-done approach from product management to the question. wp.me/p8Mj42-cQ
Here the full blog post digimusingsblog.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/t...
If we have a greater variety of digital solutions in our lives and not only those from the established tech monopolies, the shape of digital transformation will be determined by everyone and not just by the monopolistic few.
As Yuval Noah Harari argues in Nexus, networks have always been the main source of power, and today’s digital platforms are no exception. And the change in policy at Meta' fact checking is a perfect example of the massive influence of singular platforms (for the music industry think Spotify).
Short blog on hope for 2025 - Digital solutions can tackle major societal challenges, but they also demand new processes and behaviors—making them social innovations as much as technological ones.
Best things about the #OEB conference in Berlin was to go out for dinner with #edtech greats
Let's see. But obviously the paradigm is actually wrong. If I change my telephone or email provider, I don't lose contact to everyone who didn't switch to the same new provider.
Now we really know what a "walled garden" feels like. All that value we created on Twitter through the networks we built have no value and we have to simply start again. I see that a lot of people are betting on Bluesky now.
Lets not be disheartened by the Munich Security Conference on "lose-lose" global partnerships, and instead be inspired to create a global learning planet, supporting a new gen of global citizens inclusive by age, gender, geography and background. digimusingsblog.wordpress.com/2024/03/08/a...
@oercamp.bsky.social
Its a pleasure to hear Igor Lesko, Director of Operations for the Open Education Consortium about his research on the influence of International Organisations on OE Policy across the globe. This is a student-led workshop in our Master Programme on Leadership in Open Education #OECamp #OEWeek
10 theses to OER at the @oercamp.bsky.social #oeweek
In which I argue that I have benefitted from taking a "flat world" approach to digital transformation across the world, but now favour the more nuanced "twin transition" approach
Over in Slovenia, home of the UNESCO AI centre, for our Master program on leadership in open education. www.ung.si/en/schools/s... We are based in the beautiful Vipava valley.
