Anthony Copeland
EDUCATOR · RESEARCHER · TECHNOLOGISTIntroducing MEM: Multidimensional Education Mapping
MEM foregrounds world literacy, metacognitive regulation, and human agency as the control system for AI-mediated education.
Cognitive Worlds
A book-in-progress on the three-worlds ontology of AI-mediated cognition. Manuscript drafts, chapter notes, and bibliographic working files.
Oral defence at scale — a half-day for heads of department
A working protocol for moving a faculty back to viva-style assessment in one term. Limited cohort, in-person, Dubai.
A practitioner-researcher's notebook, working portfolio, and consultancy practice — organised, after Popper and Penrose, into three worlds.
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Recent · 2026Introducing MEM: Multidimensional Education Mapping
MEM foregrounds world literacy, metacognitive regulation, and human agency as the control system for AI-mediated education.
On the Three Worlds: an ontology for AI-mediated learning
The MEM framework distinguishes Mental, Formal, and Physical domains of educational reality. Generative AI lives natively in World 2, with consequences for how it ought to be taught with.
Assessment after the assistant: a working defence of the viva
Written assignments are a leaky vessel. Oral defence, portfolio review, and process-based assessment recover what AI displaces — and they were better all along.
Projects
Active portfolioShorter dispatches, weekly-ish, by email.
The site holds the long-form. Substack carries the shorter version: working notes, half-arguments, fragments from in-progress work.