Digital Education project in Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda: Second Year
Our little research cluster of Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria, the University of Dar es Salaam and the State University of Zanzibar in Tanzania, and Makerere University in Uganda (and the University of Edinburgh of course!) have been lucky enough to receive some more funding to continue our work exploring digital education in SSA. Since […]
Digital Education Workshop in Dar es Salaam: Team and Themes
I am posting this as well to the Centre for Research in Digital Education site as well as the cluster’s website once that site is complete. Having just returned from Tanzania and an intensive round of workshops as part of a Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) small grant for theme development, I wanted to take […]
Building a research cluster: digital education, inclusion, and carbon impact in Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda
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 together several institutions working in digital education in sub-Saharan Africa and some wonderful individuals many of whom I have known for many years but have […]
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 learning in higher education. In that defense, I was critiqued on a whole range of issues but one question that particularly stuck was how would […]
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 like this from time to time. I will try and make these posts easy to spot in case anyone isn’t interested (more than likely by […]
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 some pragmatic processes for setting up SMS systems that might serve academics. I am speaking specifically of setting up mobile communities of practice for historians […]
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 for more information on different mobile projects that are starting to demonstrate traction in developing nations. I came across many that could be used to […]