University of Exeter and Near Future Teaching
The slides for a recent presentation I gave at the University of Exeter are below, which mostly speak about the Near Future Teaching project at the University of Edinburgh and impact on community, postdigital futures, and inclusion. I buried the lead a bit in only nominally addressing the postdigital bit but the full report does […]
Near Future Teaching Themes and Values for the Future of Digital Education: “we’re not a unicorn tech start-up…We are a university.”
A post shared by Michael Gallagher (@mseangallagher) on Jun 1, 2018 at 12:51am PDT I haven’t been writing all that much here but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing. Head down doing the academic work of the summer, drafting chapter and journal paper one after the other. I have also been writing a bit […]
Future of Learning at the University of Edinburgh (and speaking engagements): Near Future Teaching, distributed and mobile universities, and ICT4D/SMS projects
Bouncing around a bit over the next few weeks/months with speaking engagements, conferences, seminars, or otherwise. All of them are in some way or another about learning futures and all touch on my research interests in one way or another. I will write longer posts providing full slidedecks and some notes, but for now I […]
Internet of Things: a recent workshop at the University of Edinburgh
I originally drafted this post as part of the Near Future Teaching project at the University of Edinburgh, but am reposting a slightly edited version of it here as I wanted to draw out some more of projects we are looking to for inspiration. Bear with me for a bit. Dr Jeremy Knox of the […]
Internet of (Community) Things: an upcoming workshop at the University of Edinburgh and how we are trying to reimagine the distance in distance education
Dr Jeremy Knox and I, both of the Centre for Research in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh, are running two workshops for faculty and students on Internet of Things (IoT) technology and how this might be designed to bridge distance for the university across campuses (there are several discrete campuses within the city) […]
From makerspace to future fiction to blockchain: notes from this week’s events and Amara
We have had three events this past week for the Near Future Teaching project here at the University of Edinburgh. All well attended, well received, and ultimately all generating well positioned intentions of what the future of the university should be. We learned how blockchain works and how it might be applied to education, we […]
The Future of Teaching at the University of Edinburgh: Events in Support of the Near Future Teaching project
As I have mentioned a few times by this point (and ad nauseum to wife, friends, and family), I am working on several futures-oriented projects at the University of Edinburgh, all of which, in some small part, look to shape strategy and teaching for years and decades to come. I am and have been on […]