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

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 […]
The Mobile Campus: Imagining The Future of Distributed Education at the University of Edinburgh

James Lamb and I, both of the Centre for Research in Digital Education, are hosting a mobile learning event as part of the Festival of Creative Learning at the University of Edinburgh. James has written an excellent post exploring the parameters of what we are trying to do so my post is really just about […]
#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 […]
Anonymity in Mobile Messaging: Criminalization, Luxury, Permission, and Persistent Presentation of Self

Clearly a favorite subject of mine, I am returning yet again to the subject of surveillance and privacy in the digital and attempting, clumsily, to link that to development work and my work at the Centre for Research in Digital Education. Just yesterday, James Lamb and I were using Telegram to pilot our mLearning idea […]