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  1. Letter to my former self: a third space imaginal practice

    Article • Perspectives Policy and Practice in Higher Education, June 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Eamon Costello

  2. Click Here if You Agree (to Reclaim the EdTech Classroom through Speculative Co-design)

    Article • Proceedings of the International Conference on Networked Learning, April 2026, Aalborg University

    Eamon Costello

  3. Critical and Creative Methods: From Learning Design Practice To Research

    Article • TechTrends, November 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Eamon Costello

  4. Authoritarian EdTech

    Article • Dialogues on Digital Society, September 2025, SAGE Publications

    Eamon Costello

  5. The voice of artificial intelligence: Philosophical and educational reflections

    Article • Educational Philosophy and Theory, March 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Eamon Costello

  6. Metaphors of AI in Education: Discourses, Histories and Practices

    Article • Journal of Interactive Media in Education, January 2025, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Eamon Costello

  7. Unsafe AI for Education: A Conversation on Stochastic Parrots and Other Learning Metaphors ⚠

    Article • Journal of Interactive Media in Education, January 2025, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Eamon Costello

  8. Taming the Monster: How can Open Education Promote the Effective and Safe use of Generative AI in Education?

    Article • Journal of Learning for Development, November 2024, Commonwealth of Learning

    Eamon Costello, Aras BOZKURT

  9. Methods for dreaming about and reimagining digital education

    Article • International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Eamon Costello

  10. Speculative Practicescapes of Learning Design and Dreaming

    Article • Postdigital Science and Education, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Eamon Costello, Professor Anders Christian Buch

  11. An Automatic Question Usability Evaluation Toolkit

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Eamon Costello

  12. Postdigital Ethics of Care

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Eamon Costello

  13. Quality Assurance of Blended Learning: A Case Study of Developing National Guidelines

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Eamon Costello

  14. Between the Lines: An Exploration of Online Academic Help-Seeking and Outsourced Support in Higher Education: Who Seeks Help and Why?

    Article • Education Sciences, November 2023, MDPI AG

    Eamon Costello

  15. 19. Imagination and justice

    Article • October 2023, Open Book Publishers

    Eamon Costello

  16. Information and Media Literacy in the Age of AI: Options for the Future

    Article • Education Sciences, September 2023, MDPI AG

    Eamon Costello

  17. Editorial: There's an AI for that

    Article • Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, August 2023, Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA)

    Eamon Costello

  18. Massive Omission of Consent (MOOC): Ethical Research in Educational Big Data Studies

    Article • Online Learning, June 2023, The Online Learning Consortium

    Eamon Costello

  19. ChatGPT and the Educational AI Chatter: Full of Bullshit or Trying to Tell Us Something?

    Article • Postdigital Science and Education, March 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Eamon Costello

  20. The Hacking Innovative Pedagogies (HIP) framework: - Rewilding the digital learning ecology

    Article • January 2023, Aalborg University

    Eamon Costello

  21. Edge School: A Speculative Design Fiction

    Article • Postdigital Science and Education, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Eamon Costello

  22. Towards a Framework to Support the Implementation of Digital Formative Assessment in Higher Education

    Article • Education Sciences, November 2022, MDPI AG

    Eamon Costello

  23. Mapping the MOOC Research Landscape: Insights from Empirical Studies

    Article • International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), July 2022, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)

    Eamon Costello

  24. Rewild My Heart: With Pedagogies of Love, Kindness and the Sun and Moon

    Article • Postdigital Science and Education, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Eamon Costello

  25. Who cares about learning design? Near future superheroes and villains of an educational ethics of care

    Article • Learning Media and Technology, May 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Eamon Costello

  26. Dissolving the Dichotomies Between Online and Campus-Based Teaching: a Collective Response to The Manifesto for Teaching Online (Bayne et al. 2020)

    Article • Postdigital Science and Education, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Eamon Costello, Aras BOZKURT

  27. Books (Are Not Like People): A Postdigital Fable

    Article • Postdigital Science and Education, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Eamon Costello

  28. Integrating design thinking into instructional design: The #OpenTeach case study

    Article • Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, September 2021, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

    Eamon Costello

  29. Editorial: Ireland’s Online Learning Call

    Article • Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, July 2021, Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA)

    Eamon Costello

  30. ‘Choice Is Yours’: Anatomy of a Lesson Plan from University V

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Eamon Costello

  31. Data Visualisation Literacy in Higher Education: An Exploratory Study of Understanding of a Learning Dashboard Tool

    Article • International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), September 2020, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)

    Eamon Costello

  32. Public perceptions towards MOOCs on social media: an alternative perspective to understand personal learning experiences of MOOCs

    Article • Interactive Learning Environments, August 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Eamon Costello

  33. ‘The Pandemic Will Not be on Zoom’: A Retrospective from the Year 2050

    Article • Postdigital Science and Education, July 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Eamon Costello

  34. Open and Shut: Open Access in Hybrid Educational Technology Journals 2010 – 2017

    Article • The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, January 2020, Athabasca University Press

    Eamon Costello

  35. ‘Requires proofing by a native speaker’ – colonization and scholarship

    Article • Insights the UKSG journal, January 2020, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Eamon Costello

  36. Duelling identities in refugees learning through open, online higher education

    Article • Open Praxis, December 2019, International Council for Open and Distance Education

    Eamon Costello

  37. Crowded house: an analysis of how the Virtual Learning Environment Moodle is built via bug tracker participants

    Article • Interactive Learning Environments, October 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Eamon Costello

  38. Research Ethics of Twitter for MOOCs

    Article • Online Learning, September 2019, The Online Learning Consortium

    Eamon Costello

  39. Education’s many “opens”

    Article • Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, June 2019, Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education

    Eamon Costello

  40. Open Science and Educational Research: An Editorial Commentary

    Article • Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, May 2019, Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA)

    Eamon Costello

  41. Determining Textbook Cost, Formats, and Licensing with Google Books API: A Case Study from an Open Textbook Project

    Article • Information Technology and Libraries, March 2019, Boston College University Libraries

    Eamon Costello

  42. Bronze, free, or fourrée: an open access commentary

    Article • Science Editing, February 2019, Korean Council of Science Editors

    Eamon Costello

  43. Determining Textbook Cost, Formats, and Licensing with Google Books API: A Case Study from an Open Textbook Project

    Article • February 2019, Center for Open Science

    Eamon Costello

  44. Textbooks authors, publishers, formats and costs in higher education

    Article • BMC Research Notes, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Eamon Costello

  45. Evaluation of MCQs from MOOCs for common item writing flaws

    Article • BMC Research Notes, December 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Eamon Costello

  46. The future of online testing and assessment: question quality in MOOCs

    Article • International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Eamon Costello

  47. Head start online: flexibility, transitions and student success

    Article • Educational Media International, October 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Eamon Costello

  48. Pre-induction supports for flexible learners: The Head Start Online MOOC pilot. A Practice Report

    Article • Student Success, June 2018, Queensland University of Technology

    Eamon Costello

  49. In MOOCs we Trust: Learner Perceptions of MOOC Quality via Trust and Credibility

    Article • International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), May 2018, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)

    Eamon Costello

  50. Editorial

    Article • Irish Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning, May 2018, Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA)

    Eamon Costello

  51. #MOOC Friends and Followers: An Analysis of Twitter Hashtag Networks

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Eamon Costello

  52. Giving Flexible Learners a Head Start on Higher Education: Designing and Implementing a Pre-induction Socialisation MOOC

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Eamon Costello

  53. Designing and developing a programme-focused assessment strategy: a case study

    Article • Open Learning The Journal of Open Distance and e-Learning, May 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Eamon Costello

  54. Opportunities and Threats of the MOOC Movement for Higher Education: The European Perspective

    Article • The International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, December 2015, Athabasca University Press

    Eamon Costello

  55. The open dataset on students’ perceptions of virtual learning environments in Ireland: Collaborating to listen to the student voice

    Article • British Journal of Educational Technology, August 2015, Wiley

    Angelica Risquez, Eamon Costello

  56. Opening up to open source: looking at how Moodle was adopted in higher education

    Article • Open Learning The Journal of Open Distance and e-Learning, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Eamon Costello

  57. A Reappraisal of Online Mathematics Teaching Using LaTeX

    Article • International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), December 2009, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE)

    Eamon Costello

  58. Online Labs for Distance Learners: Reflections from an Irish Pilot Study

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2008, Elsevier

    Eamon Costello