Insights into Mobile Telecoms in Africa: Predictions for mlearning and transactional economies of higher education
(The above is what mobile for higher education in disaggregated environments looks like at least in my head. A composite community of modularized units. Foundational African map here is by Giacomo Gastaldi from Venice in 1566. This map is from the wonderful Afriterra Foundation. It has been remixed a bit using MacOSaiX) I have been making […]
#mLearning and History in Higher Education (Part 5): Partial Builds, Zanzibar, and Research Methods
Returning to this little research project I have going on in my head and on this blog exclusively, I am left with the actual research methods I will employ to establish a credible study of mobile environments for creating communities of practice in dialogue-based disciplines (particularly History, but really any of the Humanities) in East […]
Mobile Learning and History in Higher Education (Part 2): Disciplinary Practice of History
The second part of this series of posts is the disciplinary subject in question, namely History. Following this will be a post/small Review of Literature for the intersections of mobile learning and higher education, including a clumsy attempt to use Sharples’ “Towards a Theory of Mobile Learning” as a guide, but for now we will […]
eLearning Africa and Google Map Driving Directions from Nairobi to Lusaka
I enjoyed this article from the News portal for the eLearning Africa 2010 conference currently underway in Lusaka, Zambia. I had the good fortune of presenting and attending at eLearning Africa 2008 in Accra, Ghana as well as attending and presenting at a different conference in Lusaka, Zambia at the same conference centre as this […]