Being ‘at’ university: the social topologies of distance students
Michael Gallagher A paper I co-authored with Dr. Sian Bayne at the University of Edinburgh and James Lamb, a colleague from the MSc in Digital Education programme at the University of Edinburgh…
Digital Education
Beni American University: A Chance to Participate in Building (Literally) Higher Education in Nigeria
The Need for Education in Nigeria It has been awhile since I posted, but since I am more or less settled in Seoul it seemed like a good time to…
Phone Commercials and Changing Mobile Media Practices: Relentless creation
I feel I know what marketing and advertising is about. I am aware of how it is designed to manipulate emotions, harken back to some real or imagined nostalgia, epitomize…
Self-publishing lessons learned: formats, platforms, reading preferences
It has been about a week since I published my ebook on mobile learning, enough time to start to wade through some of the feedback I have been receiving, edit…
Learning about learning through history: honoring the structure of the landscape around us
This will be one of my shortest posts ever as I am running out the door (more or less), but I stumbled across this quote and it floored me in…
SMS Environments for Learning: Flows and mobile learning
I was writing a bit in a previous post about possible SMS applications specifically geared towards formalized learning (like at the university level), how they might be structured, and what…
MOOCs, university capacity, and disinvestment in third party services
MOOCs and marketing I have written about, participated in, and followed the MOOC phenomena with considerable interest. It represented some healthy experimentation with delivery devices for higher education and potentially…