Natalie Lafferty
@nlafferty.bsky.social
Higher education, digital education, medical education … always learning.
AI Has Exposed Higher Ed’s Hollow Core — The University Must Reinvent Itself or Fade substack.com/home/post/p-...
Higher Ed Is Sleepwalking Toward Obsolescence — And AI Won’t Be the Cause, Just the Accelerant
AI Has Exposed Higher Ed’s Hollow Core — The University Must Reinvent Itself or Fade
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October 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
AI Has Exposed Higher Ed’s Hollow Core — The University Must Reinvent Itself or Fade substack.com/home/post/p-...
AI Has Exposed Higher Ed’s Hollow Core — The University Must Reinvent Itself or Fade substack.com/home/post/p-...
Higher Ed Is Sleepwalking Toward Obsolescence — And AI Won’t Be the Cause, Just the Accelerant
AI Has Exposed Higher Ed’s Hollow Core — The University Must Reinvent Itself or Fade
substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
AI Has Exposed Higher Ed’s Hollow Core — The University Must Reinvent Itself or Fade substack.com/home/post/p-...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Stupidity www.platoscave.org/2021/10/bonh...
Bonhoeffer on Stupidity (entire quote)
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October 25, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Stupidity www.platoscave.org/2021/10/bonh...
Interesting data from a study of GenAI usage in studies amongst Scottish students saw no significant change in usage from 2024 to 2025. In 2025 more students highlighted concerns around ethical issues, copyright and desklling. #altc25
October 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Interesting data from a study of GenAI usage in studies amongst Scottish students saw no significant change in usage from 2024 to 2025. In 2025 more students highlighted concerns around ethical issues, copyright and desklling. #altc25
AI principles developed collaboratively by the Scottish AI Tertiary Education Network being presented at #altc25 sites.google.com/view/scaiten
SCAITEN
Scottish Tertiary Education statement on the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)
sites.google.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
AI principles developed collaboratively by the Scottish AI Tertiary Education Network being presented at #altc25 sites.google.com/view/scaiten
Students highlighting the need for a standardised approach to module design at #altc25 Why has it taken the sector so long to address this?
October 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Students highlighting the need for a standardised approach to module design at #altc25 Why has it taken the sector so long to address this?
#altc25 The perennial question of how to communicate with students is posed to the student panel and the perennial response not email, use social media. Yet not all students are on social media and in the world of work you have to navigate email, Teams and multiple information channels.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
#altc25 The perennial question of how to communicate with students is posed to the student panel and the perennial response not email, use social media. Yet not all students are on social media and in the world of work you have to navigate email, Teams and multiple information channels.
The impact of the recent VS scheme at the University of Dundee on the art and design student experience. Unsurprising and no doubt similar challenges being seen across all academic disciplines. thejutejournal.com/2025/10/13/f...
From Studio to Struggle: The Real Cost of Cuts at DJCAD
“There is at least a sense that the teachers and the students are sort of in it together in all of their confusion… There’s a disconnect not between student and teacher but betwee…
thejutejournal.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:49 AM
The impact of the recent VS scheme at the University of Dundee on the art and design student experience. Unsurprising and no doubt similar challenges being seen across all academic disciplines. thejutejournal.com/2025/10/13/f...
Sad to see so many talented, creative and innovative individuals leaving the University of Dundee today. Collective wisdom and institutional memory being lost. Wishing everyone who’s left on VS all the best and hoping that fulfilling and fun new opportunities open up.
September 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Sad to see so many talented, creative and innovative individuals leaving the University of Dundee today. Collective wisdom and institutional memory being lost. Wishing everyone who’s left on VS all the best and hoping that fulfilling and fun new opportunities open up.
Media Literacy: a case of policy failure - An interesting read hot on the heels of last week’s House of Lords Communications & Digital Committee’s report on media literacy published week davidbuckingham.net/2025/07/28/m...
Media literacy: a case of policy failure
A new report from the House of Lords provides interesting reading on the current state of media literacy in the UK.
davidbuckingham.net
July 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Media Literacy: a case of policy failure - An interesting read hot on the heels of last week’s House of Lords Communications & Digital Committee’s report on media literacy published week davidbuckingham.net/2025/07/28/m...
A round-up of some of this week’s headline news on AI from Graham Lovelace grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/trump-wins...
Trump wins first round in copyright chief's job battle | Creators' champion preps new bid to ensure AI transparency | Anthropic CEO urges debate on 'AI jobs bloodbath'
#56 | PLUS: Sir Nick Clegg plays Charting bingo | NYTimes signs with Amazon's AI | Google news chief warns publishers as Pichai hits back |✨AND: Sam and Jony's 'coolest AI tech' ... but what is it?
grahamlovelace.substack.com
May 31, 2025 at 9:06 AM
A round-up of some of this week’s headline news on AI from Graham Lovelace grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/trump-wins...
The Dark Side of AI Companionship: A Taxonomy of Harmful Algorithmic Behaviors in Human-AI Relationships dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
The Dark Side of AI Companionship: A Taxonomy of Harmful Algorithmic Behaviors in Human-AI Relationships | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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May 28, 2025 at 9:24 AM
The Dark Side of AI Companionship: A Taxonomy of Harmful Algorithmic Behaviors in Human-AI Relationships dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
AI secretly helped write California bar exam, sparking uproar arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
AI secretly helped write California bar exam, sparking uproar
A contractor used AI to create 23 out of the 171 scored multiple-choice questions.
arstechnica.com
April 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
AI secretly helped write California bar exam, sparking uproar arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents
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April 9, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas www.theguardian.com/environment/...
AI is out of control, we have the receipts | Copyright-denying OpenAI and Google pile pressure on UK | Angry authors to Meta: 'Get the Zuck off our books' grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/comment-ai...
COMMENT: AI is out of control, we have the receipts | Copyright-denying OpenAI and Google pile pressure on UK | Angry authors to Meta: 'Get the Zuck off our books'
#48 | PLUS: Indy launches AI-enabled Bulletin | Music execs: 'watch out for quantum and agentic AI' | Musk's xAI swallows up X | ✨AND FINALLY: Matt Haig's new big hit, One April Morning
grahamlovelace.substack.com
April 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
AI is out of control, we have the receipts | Copyright-denying OpenAI and Google pile pressure on UK | Angry authors to Meta: 'Get the Zuck off our books' grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/comment-ai...
Learning is hard. The learning pit player.vimeo.com/video/128462...
The Learning Pit – Animated on Vimeo
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March 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Learning is hard. The learning pit player.vimeo.com/video/128462...
#UCISA25 Reading developed this Digital Research Strategy in song the Roger L Martin 5 questions approach. This involved willed café style sessions. hbr.org/2010/05/the-...
Five Questions to Build a Strategy
People make strategy much harder than it needs to be. For some, the problem is that they focus too much on the tools: environmental scans, SWOT analyses, customer analyses, competitor analyses, financ...
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March 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
#UCISA25 Reading developed this Digital Research Strategy in song the Roger L Martin 5 questions approach. This involved willed café style sessions. hbr.org/2010/05/the-...
#UCISA25 Henrik Brogger from Reading outlining that when he joined the university, some disciplines received gold standard digital research services, others didn’t. Guessing this will be the experience in other universities too.
March 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
#UCISA25 Henrik Brogger from Reading outlining that when he joined the university, some disciplines received gold standard digital research services, others didn’t. Guessing this will be the experience in other universities too.
#UCISA25 @dkernohan.bsky.social mentioning the very real challenges around recruiting staff to specialist IT roles in higher education.
March 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
#UCISA25 @dkernohan.bsky.social mentioning the very real challenges around recruiting staff to specialist IT roles in higher education.
#UCISA25 Universities do so much more than teaching and research. Engines of social mobility, mental health service for young people, R&D for business, free labour for academic publishers. Also a convenient political punch bag.
March 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
#UCISA25 Universities do so much more than teaching and research. Engines of social mobility, mental health service for young people, R&D for business, free labour for academic publishers. Also a convenient political punch bag.
#UCISA25 @dkernohan.bsky.social Talking about collaboration and competition in the higher education sector, opportunities to work together eg back office functions. Brings to mind this old HEFCE report from 2011, Collaborate to Compete focusing on online learning dera.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/19...
Collaborate to compete : seizing the opportunity of online learning for UK higher education - Digital Education Resource Archive (DERA)
dera.ioe.ac.uk
March 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
#UCISA25 @dkernohan.bsky.social Talking about collaboration and competition in the higher education sector, opportunities to work together eg back office functions. Brings to mind this old HEFCE report from 2011, Collaborate to Compete focusing on online learning dera.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/19...