MOOCs, w/the learner hat on: What am I taking and why
Michael Gallagher I have written before about MOOCs. I have participated in MOOCs as a student and facilitated one as well. I have published articles about MOOCs, along with my colleagues (also…
Mobile Learning
Mobile Learning, Non-Linearity, Meaning-Making
I have been reading and rereading material for my thesis and this reading generally falls into the following categories Community of Practice (theory) Multimodality (theory) Mobile Learning (theory and application…
Higher Education, Rising Consumer Expectations, Responses
I wanted to wade in to the ongoing discussions surrounding the current situation in higher education involving rising tuition/less government investment (seems more pronounced in the UK right now) consumer…
Writing Tools and Transformative Effect: Scrivener
My research (which relies heavily on Lave & Wenger’s Community of Practice, less so on Kress’s Multimodality, throw in some mobility theory) has me thinking in terms of mediation and…
Learning Design, Offline Structure, Pattern Language, Participatory Design, Doozers
My doctoral work has led me, in these beginning few months, in some directions I had not anticipated, but I suppose that is the point fo the whole exercise. Supposing,…
New Media Ontologies and the Technological Unconscious
I am making my way through a weekend of reading, mostly on participatory design processes and how I might relate those to my research on mobile environments for Humanities practice…
Mapping out multimodal methods for mobile (and alliterating, apparently)
Community and Multimodality: Laying out a Disciplinary Flow I am making my way through the first few rounds of rewrites on my thesis and all is going well. As I…