Digital Education in Emerging Spaces

Music for Airports

This album by Brian Eno, Music for Aiports, was designed to be precisely to be just that. It is ethereal music that was originally designed to be piped into LaGardia Airport in an attempt to defuse the tense, anxious atmosphere of an airport. If you want to be mentally be somewhere else, drift away into the ether, then this is the music for you.

I like to write to this type of music personally; others might prefer sleeping, barely breathing, or perhaps lowering their blood pressure.

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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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