I have been lucky enough to be awarded a small bit of GCRF funding to develop a research cluster around interdisciplinary themes. It really is an extraordinary opportunity to bring …
Baking in the Digital Divide into Mobile Learning: Korea, Tanzania, and Home-Grown Technology
Reposting here from Panoply Digital. A rather belated post for the week but I just returned from the UK where I defended my thesis at University College London on mobile …
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 …
SMS Smart Texting: Routing Logic and Trigger Events for Mobile Academic Communities in East Africa
SMS rule routing: Smart Texting Another useful bit of information on Mobile Active was their How To Set up an SMS System guide, that is proving very helpful in developing …
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 …
mLearning and History in Higher Education in Tanzania (Part 6): History, national identity, and links between mlearning and ICT4D
This part of this series of posts on mobile learning in History in higher education in Tanzania explores, what I think are, the key benefits that this research could have …
#mLearning and History in Higher Education (Part 5): Partial Builds, Zanzibar, and Research Methods
Returning to this little research project I have going on in my head and on this blog exclusively, I am left with the actual research methods I will employ to …