MOOCs, w/the learner hat on: What am I taking and why
Michael Gallagher I have written before about MOOCs. I have participated in MOOCs as a student and facilitated one as well. I have published articles about MOOCs, along with my colleagues (also…
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Mobile Learning, Non-Linearity, Meaning-Making
I have been reading and rereading material for my thesis and this reading generally falls into the following categories Community of Practice (theory) Multimodality (theory) Mobile Learning (theory and application…
Higher Education, Rising Consumer Expectations, Responses
I wanted to wade in to the ongoing discussions surrounding the current situation in higher education involving rising tuition/less government investment (seems more pronounced in the UK right now) consumer…
Learning Design, Offline Structure, Pattern Language, Participatory Design, Doozers
My doctoral work has led me, in these beginning few months, in some directions I had not anticipated, but I suppose that is the point fo the whole exercise. Supposing,…
Manipulation of ambient environments; learning the aural context of geography
The Brute Power of Visual Representation That is a fairly grandiose title for a post that might underwhelm, but I am revisiting my Audioboo recordings and listening to the sounds…
PhD Research Proposal: Full Disclosure
To make my doctoral experience as transparent as possible for documentation purposes (myself) and to provide a record of my experiences, pitfalls, etc. (for others), I will be posting things…
Pragmatic Mobile Technology Use in Malawi for mHealth
I have been facilitating the Week 3 Session on Mobiles for Development (M4D) for MobiMOOC and a few days ago we had a speaker from Malawi, Limbanazo Kapindula, discussing mhealth…