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Rethinking student vulnerability and risk: Researching student success and retention in open education contexts
This blog contains text and some of the images used for the invited seminar, UNESCO Chair on Open Distance Learning, University of South Africa (UNISA), Wednesday 12 August 2020 This reflection flows from an editorial I wrote for a Special … Continue reading
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Special issue: call for papers
Originally posted on TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION:
Possibilities and complexities of decolonising higher education: critical perspectives on praxis (co-editors: Kathy Luckett, Aneta Hayes and Sharon Stein) Photo by ICSA on Pexels.com There is wide acknowledgement of the need to ‘decolonise’…
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Learning analytics in open, distance and distributed learning: Potential, practice and challenges
As part of the series, Springer Briefs in Open and Distance Education, we invite expressions of interest for a book that will critically explore and map the potential and challenges of learning analytics in the specific context of open, distance … Continue reading
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Fear is a broken compass
Fear is a broken compass. Fear is medication that does not work anymore. Fear is convulsions at night. Fear is not-knowing and to continue walking I used to know the rules, the landscape, and what was expected of me as … Continue reading
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Faculty as quantified, measured and tired: The lure of the red shoes
[This is the text of my keynote on 31 May 2018 at the First Annual NWU Teaching and Learning Conference at the North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.] I would like to take the opportunity to thank the conference organisers for … Continue reading
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What I heard, what I did not hear and what I wish I had heard… Reflections on the World Conference on Online Learning, Toronto, 2017
Recently I’ve had the privilege of attending the World Conference on Online Learning in Toronto, organized and hosted by Contact North I Contact Nord. What a conference it was! At times, it resembled a medieval marketplace or bazaar with a … Continue reading
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Open(ing) Education
Image credit:I’ve used two sources for the above collated image. The image of the head was sourced from https://pixabay.com/en/art-sculpture-scrap-sculpture-human-1699977/ while the image of the network was sourced from https://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Egoi_network.png Call for Proposals We are excited to invite you to submit … Continue reading
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Decolonising the collection, analyses and use of student data: A tentative exploration/proposal
Voices from the Global South* (*I know the term is contentious) increasingly demand to not only be recognised in the extremely uneven and skewed terrain of knowledge production and dissemination, but to actively take part and contest and reshape knowledge … Continue reading
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Failing our students: not noticing the traces they leave behind
Image credit: https://pixabay.com/p-366446/?no_redirect Last week on 1 November, Jesse Stommel hosted a panel discussion on Ethical online learning – which stayed with me and haunted me since I’ve watched it. Somehow this morning as I was writing this blog, some … Continue reading
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Some thoughts on blogging as educational activism
[Context: This is one of the many blog posts that somehow missed the moment when they were called on-stage and hesitated in a moment of I-am-not-yet-ready-for-this and shied away and stayed hidden in a folder. And as we all know, … Continue reading
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