Dr. James Bedford - University 3.0: A Pedagogy-First Approach to Vibe Coding

00:00 Welcome and Speaker Intro 01:32 Why Vibe Coding Matters 04:13 Air Con Beats Laptops 05:19 EdTech Backlash and Opportunity 08:56 Self Regulated Learning Lens 11:34 Cognitive Load and Offloading 17:13 Vibe Coding for Better Learning 19:44 University 3.0 and Co Creation 21:57 Entanglement Pedagogy Explained 24:25 Three Ps Framework 29:08 The Ninety Five Percent Rule 29:49 Finish the Last Five Percent 30:53 Planning and Governance Questions 33:04 Co-Designing With Students 35:09 Math Assistant Live Demo 39:54 Complexity and Time to Build 42:03 Beneficial Offloading Signals 44:25 Beyond Chatbots to Voice and Video 47:28 Managing Codebase and Refactors 50:40 More Vibe Coding Use Cases 53:39 Closing and Connecting There has ironically never been a worse time for EdTech to be this easy to build. While recent studies suggest that simply installing air conditioning has a greater impact on student outcomes than giving every child a laptop, the EdTech industry has come under fire as it continues to push generic, profit-driven, “one-size-fits-all” software that may be benefiting no one. But what happens when the barrier between natural language and functional code completely dissolves? What happens when teachers can make their own software to meet the needs of their students? Enter "Vibe coding”. In this session, Dr. James Bedford explores the dawn of University 3.0—a paradigm shift moving away from "Consumer AI" and toward the "Teacher-as-Creator." With the rise of advanced LLMs, educators with zero technical background can quickly develop their skills to start engineering their own hyper-local, pedagogically aligned technological solutions. Drawing on real-world examples—like building a multilingual Socratic math bot complete with digital canvas integration—this talk will explore how we may be able to finally reject generic platforms in favour of an 'Entangled Pedagogy (Fawns 2022) empowering us to create tech solutions that meet the specific, localised needs of our stu