Digital Education in Emerging Spaces

Data for Research (DfR) Quick Use Case Video

This is a quick video outlining some ways in which the new Data for Research dataset service from JSTOR could prove beneficial to researchers.

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I double dog dare you to search for some terms looking for their academic currency. When did pan-Africanism hit the scene? Sushi enter the academic vernacular? Want to know all the key terms from any of the 50 disciplines in the corpus? It is interesting stuff, especially considering the size and span of the database (14 billion words, 350 years, 5 million+ articles).

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My name is Michael Sean Gallagher. I am a Lecturer in Digital Education at the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh. I am Co-Founder and Director of Panoply Digital, a consultancy dedicated to ICT and mobile for development (M4D); we have worked with USAID, GSMA, UN Habitat, Cambridge University and more on education and development projects. I was a researcher on the Near Futures Teaching project, a project that explores how teaching at The University of Edinburgh unfold over the coming decades, as technology, social trends, patterns of mobility, new methods and new media continue to shift what it means to be at university. Previously, I was the Research Associate on the NERC, ESRC, and AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund sponsored GCRF Research for Emergency Aftershock Forecasting (REAR) project. I was an Assistant Professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (한국외국어대학교) in Seoul, Korea. I have also completed a doctorate at University College London (formerly the independent Institute of Education, University of London) on mobile learning in the humanities in Korea.

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