Participatory design for MobiMOOC: call for participation
Michael Gallagher In the spirit of open learning and MOOCs, with all their emphasis on openness, collaboration, even transparency, it seems natural enough to extend that thought of openness all the way…
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MOOC Learning Design: What does participatory design look like in open learning?
Constructivist is what constructivist explores I am in the process of constructing a week of activities on ICT4D (and Mobile for Development-M4d) for the next installment of the MobiMOOC scheduled…
Sauti ya Wakulima Project in Tanzania and Creating Mobile Networks for Academics
I was making preparations for an upcoming MobiMOOC in September as I will be facilitating a week’s worth of the learning and was browsing through the excellent Mobile Active site…
Internet and mobile use statistics for Asia: using data to distill ideas into research
I have been toying around a bit with some statistics on Asia’s rate of internet users as percentage of the population vs. mobile penetration (as percentage of the population) using…
Unsupervised mlearning in rural India and illustrations: a narrative of contact points and progress
I was recently doing some research on mlearning in rural communities as I believe that much of what we cover in m4d in developing nations would actually prove beneficial to…
Mobile in Mongolia: Half a research idea for #M4D and Higher Education
Having almost been stationed in Mongolia for the Peace Corps back in my youth, I now return my focus to Mongolia, that land of the Asiatic Steppe. I think of…
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…