Students and schools: imports, exports, and some flattening of context
Michael GallagherReposting 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…
Steer clear of the bridge: Bridge International Academies in Kenya, neoliberalism, and lazy shortcuts to meaningful education
Reblogging here from Panoply Digital. Returning to a favorite subject of mine, discussed here and here in past posts, is the ongoing Bridge Academy debacle throughout the continent, but particularly…
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…
Vannevar Bush, Information Overload, and Scholarship in Developing Nations
Vannevar Bush, as quoted by Levy (PDF), described the notion occurring even in the early part of the 20th century of the various disciplinary silos rising up in higher education…
Digital African History Materials: Lamu (Kenya), Independence Movements in Southern Africa, and more
If you are interested in African History, this video I recorded a few years ago might be interesting to you. It is a walkthrough of some of the African History…
Google in Kenya
When I went to the eLearning Africa Conference 2008 in Accra, Ghana, we noticed Google (looking by the way, exactly what one would expect Google people to look-young, healthy and…