Internet of Things: a recent workshop at the University of Edinburgh
I originally drafted this post as part of the Near Future Teaching project at the University of Edinburgh, but am reposting a slightly edited version of it here as I wanted to draw out some more of projects we are looking to for inspiration. Bear with me for a bit. Dr Jeremy Knox of the […]
Internet of (Community) Things: an upcoming workshop at the University of Edinburgh and how we are trying to reimagine the distance in distance education
Dr Jeremy Knox and I, both of the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh, are running two workshops for faculty and students on Internet of Things (IoT) technology and how this might be designed to bridge distance for the university across campuses (there are several discrete campuses within the city) […]
New forms of authorship and a new project: Composition
[Composition]: Conversations about Content and Form [Composition]: Conversations about Content and Form is a product of an ongoing collaboration with James Lamb of the University of Edinburgh, with whom I have collaborated before on the New Geographies of Learning and Elektronisches Lernen Muzik, projects that explore the role of space in digital education and how music […]
Conflating MOOCs with all of online education: Cambridge, Edinburgh, and some nuance (please)
I stumbled across this article brought to my attention by a few different people from my network and I wanted to briefly mention my take on the issue. The article has Professor Mary Beard of Cambridge warning of the dangers of MOOCs as a means of subverting the teacher/student dynamic in favor of tutors or […]
Online (learning) can be (and is) the privileged mode: Thoughts on the manifesto for teaching online
As a proud graduate of the University of Edinburgh’s MSc in Elearning program, I have been enriched and invested myself in the process of learning with this dynamic community. I consider it time and resources well invested as I have had the doors blown out on my perceptions of what it means to learn online […]