Terry Anderson

Professor Emeritus Athabasca University

[Terry Anderson @terguy]

How “Virtuous Nonsense” Broke the University. I haven't read either of two books - yet) reviewed by M Dudley at https://t.co/moMjyJn6mv. But they seem to confirm that the University and wider society needs to value truth more than ideology.

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30 years ago I was manually coding text learning transcripts +concluded it was too time consuming. Now can use use LLM with success + much less effort. see Krukowski et al (2027) Potential of large language models for assessment of cognitive engagement in informal online communi

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@Jimgurnett @ABDanielleSmith Add to this, I'd like to see how our oil revenues were wasted compared to what Norway has and is doing with thiers.

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Bin Dahmash, N. F. (2026). Chat-based interaction in virtual classes: EFL students’ perceptions, motivation, and well-being. Frontiers in Psychology, 17, 1807648.

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I've long been a fan of 'back channel' communication during synchronous sessions. New study "The results revealed chat-based interaction is an accommodative, low-anxiety communication method that is associated with engagement and well-being among learners in online EFL settings."

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Glad to have played a very small role in a new publication bringing the venerable COI model into AI age see Reconceptualizing community of inquiry in the age of generative artificial intelligence. https://t.co/tqALx5PmSB

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A "field note" I wrote published this week in IRRODL. I asked AI tool to detail the uses of an article I wrote in 2003. I could think of 3. AI detailed 10 ways that others had used the article. Seems AI knows more about my work, than I do! https://t.co/Omgq7WqPyG

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Things have come a very long way with net-based virtual conferences since I ran the world's first one in 1992. Here is an article that talks of integrating F2F, zoom and VR to reduce carbon. Also presents framework to evaluate what works. Good article! https://t.co/42V50S9MHD

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Can AI recall and understand the implications of my own writing better than I? see https://t.co/rCf3dzCjS2

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See my pro nuclear energy rant on https://t.co/NtyHQMRdSP

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Very honoured and humbled to be awarded Honourary Doctorate from Universidade Aberta (Portugal Open University) see https://t.co/lqSzQs14QH

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uranium

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@LifelibertyLisa This liquer is just aging till the war is over!

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NDP Politician Charlie Angus on Trump's war on Canada " This is going to be a long and very hard road. People will suffer, and families will be hurt. There is no getting around it. There will be no winners in this battle.
But Canadians are unified. Whereas Americans are divided."

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Myself, Rory McGreal, Peter Cookson & Serena Henderson publish - Twenty-Five Years of Innovation and Knowledge Sharing: The Legacy and Future of the International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (2025) at https://t.co/j0DpPwoNyr

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Nice to 25th Anniversary edition of IRRODL. Athabasca wrote a press release IRRODL story https://t.co/sluA4YD2Nz