Reflective space, or the merits of social detachment (Michael+ as Google-)
Michael Gallagher Something struck me just a moment ago as I was furiously scrambling between tabs and Google Analytics to check usage of one of the umpteen sites I seem to be…
Teaching and Learning in Decentralized Spaces
I enjoyed this presentation from George Siemens, Athabasca University, on teaching and learning in decentralized spaces. I have heard similar arguments before and concur generally. There seems to be a…
James Gale, Old Korea, and Google Books
I went back to my wife’s university library to grab more of the Korean History books that are so obsolete as to be primary sources. I stumbled across a few…
eLearning Africa 2010 in Lusaka, Zambia: Conceptual, strategic, policy before technology
The eLearning Africa 2010 Conference planning seems to be in full swing. This year it will be in Lusaka, Zambia, on May 26-28, 2010. In general, this conference has been…
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,…
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…
African Anthropology: Khoisan language, Asante Stool Histories, Ceremonies
This is a video I created in 2008 to highlight some of the materials available in the collections here. It highlights some fairly amazing content and most of it hadn’t…