Students and schools: imports, exports, and some flattening of context
Reposting this here from the original post for Panoply Digital. Returning to a favorite (re: only) theme of mine, education, I was struck recently by the uptick in the number of foreign universities setting up branch campuses in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and presumably throughout the continent, ideally bolstering domestic capacity for graduates who can push […]
Geocommons: African Mobile Money and Higher Education visualized
This post is really about demonstrating Geocommons, a nifty tool for visualizing and mapping large datasets. In this instance, I was merely playing around with the datasets that are already preloaded there, but I suspect it would work equally well with data you would personally load. In this case I am visualizing higher education and […]
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 […]
Mobile Learning and History in Higher Education (Part 3): Learning & Instructional Frameworks of History
Off to Part 3, which speaks a bit on the learning and instructional frameworks of History as practiced in higher education. It is not my stated intention to jump too far into instructional practice for History (instructional as in taught course/formal education), but after repeated attempts to remove this bit, it seems foolish as they […]
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 […]
Mobile Learning and the Practice of History in Higher Education (Part 1): Questions and Assumptions
This post represents the first of many posts outlining a particularly large research project/proposal I am working on currently (and have been for about the past year) discussing the role of mobile learning in the practice of History in higher education in developing nations. I started out, if you can believe this, much broader than […]
Scholarship in developing nations: INASP
Further to my previous post about the difficulties encountered by many researchers in developing nations, I feel it is necessary that the situation is not all that bleak. In fact, I do sense some momentum in improving this situation. The way I see it from my limited perspective is that the challenges facing developing nations […]