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Lynne Bowker

Localizing OER to Counter Information Privilege

The rising cost of textbooks can lead university students to make tough decisions, such as buying a cheaper, outdated version, sharing a single copy among a group, making an illegal copy, or going without a textbook altogether. Each of these coping strategies can negatively impact a student’s learning. Thankfully, open educational resources (OER) are emerging as a means of combatting information privilege that is linked to finances. This is a positive step forward, but is it enough? How else can we leverage the potential of OER to reduce other types of information privilege?

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Education
sakee

Who Is Research For? Rethinking Information Privilege

This is what information privilege looks like in everyday research practice. Universities reward publications. Journals measure impact through citations. Scholars gain recognition. Meanwhile, participants—especially those in marginalized communities—often remain outside the circle of knowledge circulation. The very people whose experiences form the foundation of research may never see how their stories were interpreted.

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EducationOriginal
Azeez Adeoye

The Forgotten Jewel of a Good Book: A Compass to Modern Discoveries such as the Internet, Search Engines, and Generative AI

Many have argued about the place of technology, computer systems and their paraphernalia such as e-books, audiobooks, and websites, whether they are a blessing or a curse. Nevertheless, the products of past civilisations, such as the discovery of paper and the invention of the movable printing press, books, and writing itself, remain the true success stories behind all modern emerging technologies.

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Education
Michele Costello

The Data Divide: How Premium Financial Databases Stratify Business Education

Two students complete the same business degree, take similar courses, and earn comparable grades. One graduates with a Bloomberg certification and fluency in an industry-standard financial database. The other has never logged into a professional data platform.  One has the opportunity to compete in a case competition using financial market information to build professional information literacy, while the other is excluded based on lack of database access.  The difference comes down to the funding capacity and priorities of the institution they attended.

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EducationFeatured
Thushari Seneviratne

From Page to Stage: Engineering Freshers Bring Fiction to Life at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

From Page to Stage: Grand Finale was held on Friday, 23 January 2026, at the Multi-Purpose Building of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Moratuwa, as part of the Pre-Academic Term (PAT) programme. The event transformed a technical academic space into a living stage where stories, emotions, and student voices took centre place, showing how literature can shape confidence, empathy, and communication alongside formal academic learning.

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EducationFeaturedOpinion
Elisa Tattersall Wallin

How Will You Respond to the Unacceptable Costs of GenAI?

We must remember that those who profit the most from our growing reliance of GenAI are the tech companies themselves. Meanwhile, the people who are the most excited about AI are the ones who understand it the least. While machine learning can be useful, I argue that GenAI comes at an unacceptable cost. Taking in to consideration GenAI’s role in the spread of disinformation, the complex damages caused to people and the planet along with the proven negative effect to cognitive skills among users, this text advocates for critical perspectives, and ideally, critical refusal of GenAI.

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Dan Wu

Exploring the Future of Human–AI Collaboration: Insights from “Human–AI Interaction and Collaboration”

How should people and AI work together in ways that are useful, ethical, and trustworthy? Edited by Dan Wu and Shaobo Liang (Wuhan University), “Human–AI Interaction and Collaboration” maps the fast-moving terrain where users, systems, and information meet—treating human strengths and machine strengths as complements, not substitutes. The introduction frames collaboration as a user-centered endeavor that must balance capability with ethics, transparency, and trust.

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