Linkblog - 2026-10-04

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Teaching Amid AI Conference 2026 Program | Office of Teaching and Learning

otl.uoguelph.ca

Guelph’s annual conference, in prep for the 2027 edition…

Tags: UOGuelph, AI, conference

Introducing the new Copilot with Home, Code and Autopilot - The Official Microsoft Blog

blogs.microsoft.com

We’re reimagining Microsoft Copilot to enable work as it evolves and to help expand what every individual and every organization can accomplish in the flow of human ambition. Today we’re introducing the new Copilot to connect the tools people rely on with the next generation of capabilities they’ll need to build, customize and scale AI…

More copilot tools, including - FINALLY- “FinOps” for some damned reason. Who knows if/how we’ll have access to any of these in our campus environment.

Tags: Microsoft, Copilot

Why the Experience of Experience Matters: Designing learning through experiences that actually have an impact | Getting Smart

gettingsmart.com

Not all experiences produce real learning. Discover the design principles that make experiences meaningful, transferable, and truly impactful for students.

The article is attributed to an unnamed “Guest Author”, so it could be AI, could be a vendor, could be copypasta, who knows.

But the point about how reflection as “write a paragraph right now” isn’t effective because that’s not what reflection is, as a process, is good.

Tags: Experiential Learning, reflection

AI Tutors Are Changing Education — But Are Students Actually Learning?

nexthorizon.space

AI tutors are reshaping learning in 2026. What helps students learn, what weakens thinking, and how teachers can use AI well.

AI tutors could be really powerful things if done right, if students have agency, if they have a reason to want to interact with them, if they (the AI tutor, not the students) aren’t lobotomized after each session/course/semester, if if if…

Tags: via:Stephen Downes, AI, chatbot, tutor

Vibe Coding in Production

er.educause.edu

It would be easy to frame this as an AI story. And certainly, our work would not have been possible without Claude. But despite the persistent hype from technology companies, AI does not possess intent. It has no idea what problems we need to solve. It does not know our lived experience with systems and challenges, nor does it know how our teams work. What we found through this experience is that AI is an outstanding translator, but it is not an author. People are essential to this work.

Interesting take on vibecoding in higher education.

Tags: EDUCAUSE Review, vibecoding

The Hidden Cost of LMS Sprawl | D2L

d2l.com

Walk into almost any teaching and learning center in higher education and ask a simple question: “How many tools does it take to build and teach a single course here?” Nobody has a clean answer. That’s the problem.

The article reads like it was written by Claude, by a vendor that has often said over the years something like “we’re not going to build that functionality in but have partnered with another company and can integrate their product” but LMS sprawl is our problem to solve? Sigh.

Tags: D2L, LMS