Motivation for digital education research

I posted this the other day to the website for the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh and thought it might be worthwhile to share here as well. New beginnings force a bit of focus on why one is doing what they are doing so thought I might share those […]

Surfacing Local Practice, Placelessness, And Digital Education

This was originally posted at Panoply Digital. I try to let my ICT4D work feed into my academic work and vice versa and this is a case where my research is directly informed by my work at Panoply. I am part of the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh and […]

Slides from recent Networked Learning Conference presentation in Zagreb

Amira and mobile learning

I am currently basking in the light of a Dalmatian coastal city and thought I should post these slides lest I forget. I recently presented at the Networked Learning Conference in Zagreb, Croatia and it was stimulating. The full papers can be found here, (and mine here) but I posted my abstract below the presentation. […]

Mobile Mentoring in Teacher Training: Ideas, Project, and Further Development

This post was originally published at Panoply Digital. I have been working a bit recently with colleagues in Finland, Nigeria, and Nepal on developing a more robust teacher training curriculum for delivery in low resource environments primarily through mobile. There is activity in this space so this isn’t a novel idea, but I’d rather be […]

#mLearning in Bremen: takeaways from a recent field activity

James Lamb and I, both of the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh recently completed a mobile learning activity as part of the 3rd Bremen Conference on Multimodality in Germany. We had about 20 participants for this activity, which involved an attempt to activate seminal literature into some sort of […]