Bookmarks: Week of Oct 12 - Oct 18, 2026

Science says your boss should talk less in meetings - Ars Technica

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Research suggests listening more while talking less. Killing aimless meetings can help, too.

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Queen’s U: Teaching and Learning Guidelines | Office of the Provost and Vice-Principal

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The University is currently developing broader guidance regarding wearable AI-enabled technologies. Until that guidance is finalized, this interim guidance is provided to help instructors in their decisions and approaches to wearable AI-enabled technologies during in-person assessments. Existing examination regulations, academic integrity procedures, and accommodation processes continue to apply.

The interim guidance, in short:

AI-enabled wearable technologies should not be permitted during in-person assessments, with two exceptions: a student has a QSAS-approved academic accommodation for them, or the instructor has authorized them.

Instructors should tell students about this restriction in advance. Where notice has been given, a student with no accommodation and no conventional alternative to wear at the time of a scheduled assessment should not be permitted to write, and the missed assessment should be treated as an absence without a documented reason. This does not, on its own, warrant a deferral or an alternative.

Tags: Queen’s University, academic integrity, wearable devices, via:Natasha Kenny, via:Gavan Watson

In eLearning, Our Biggest Competitor isn’t Netflix | Ted Curran.net

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I know intimately how much development time goes into one finished hour of production-quality TV. We obsessively cut out any content that wastes our viewer’s attention, leaving only the tightest timeline of “all killer, no filler” content so the viewer can be fully immersed. Most educators come from the classroom where you’re actively trying to “fill time”, and are quite oblivious to the ways we waste learners’ time and squander their attention, then expect them to tolerate an overlong, meandering presentation. In fact it’s our job and responsibility to edit out the vast amount of details, extraneous information, and “dead air” that routinely gets rolled into learning projects along with the genuinely useful information.

Tags: person:Ted Curran, design, online learning

LTHEChat 377: Designing for Agency and Critical AI Literacy – The Peer & AI Review + Reflection (PAIRR) Project | #LTHEchat

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Join us on Wednesday 21st of October at 8.00pm (GMT/BST) with our guest contributors, Anna Mills, College of Marin (@annamillsoer.bsky.social) and Carl Whithaus, University of California, Davis. This #LTHEchat on Bluesky will explore how peer and AI feedback can strengthen students’ agency, critical AI literacy and evaluative judgement while keeping human voice and relationships at…

Tags: via:Stephen Downes, UCDavis, AI, peer feedback

Glossary of Digital Learning — Institute for Infrastructure and Interoperable Data in Learning

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Explore I2IDL’s glossary of digital learning terms, including learning engineering, xAPI, interoperability, learning analytics, learning science, and more.

Tags: via:Stephen Downes, learning technologies, glossary

Cyber security and AI: what universities need to know in 2026 - MinterEllison

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AI is now embedded in university operations and supply chains alike, reshaping cyber risk. We outline MinterEllison’s 2026 Cyber Report’s key themes, including supply chain oversight and agentic AI threats, and what they mean for universities.

Tags: via:UPCEA, AI, strategy, cybersecurity, MinterEllison

The Tragedy of AI Coding

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By last summer, I had been making small programs with AI for some time. AI’s adeptness at programming was helping me, a busy person with a professional programming background but limited reason to program, work creatively with computing for the first time in ages. I wanted to see how far I could push AI as a solo programmer. The barbecue-sides-preference problem, I reasoned, would serve as a perfect test case: building a fully featured iPhone app—Beanslaw, I called it—with esoteric utility that nobody would have bothered commercializing.

the article is basically a Bogostian take on vibecoding that turned out pretty consistent with what Brian and I were saying in the BCCampus webinar, but Bogost is, like, articulate n stuff.

Tags: person:Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, vibecoding

Beyond AI Detection: Supporting consistency, fairness and evidence of student learning | Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning | University of Calgary

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Supporting consistency, fairness, and evidence of student learning

Tags: person:Lorelei Anselmo, person:Ali Mikhaeili, AI, academic integrity