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Tag Archives: distance education
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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Tagged Contact North, distance education, higher education, online learning, open distance learning
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Making sense of access: Access to what? At what cost? For whom?
The last two weeks have been momentous in the context of thinking about access to (higher) education, the cost of access and who benefits the most from having access. On 14 October 2015 Tressie McMillan Cottom delivered the first keynote at … Continue reading
Designing hope: Some ramblings and personal reflections on ICDE2015
I write this blog not firstly as Scientific Chair of the recent ICDE2015 that was hosted by University of South Africa (Unisa), but as a participant observer, a player, a small node in the broader contexts of weak and strong … Continue reading
Kangaroo courts on student success in distance education
It is that time of the year again when students’ examination results are scrutinized and various investigations held to determine not necessarily why students failed, but more importantly, who can we held accountable for the state of affairs. Mostly, (however … Continue reading
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Tagged distance education, open distance learning, student retention, student success
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Silence as counter-narrative in higher, open, distance and e-learning
At the start of 2014 it is important to claim a space in the blogosphere by making predictions for 2014 or analysing the trends in 2013. Writing a blog on being silent or ‘pausing’ is therefore most probably strange (or … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, blogging, distance education, e-learning, education, higher education, Nicoli Humphry, open distance learning, power, silence
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2013 – An African making sense of signals and noise in higher and distance education (#etmooc)
Disclaimer: I write this overview of some of the challenges facing higher and distance education in Africa in 2013, from the specific context of my location in South Africa. I cannot, however, speak on behalf of Africa. Even my identity … Continue reading
Posted in #etmooc
Tagged Africa, distance education, education in south africa, higher education, Nate Silver, open distance learning
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Why I blog…
I posted my first blog on 10 September 2011. Personally, it was a huge step. My blogging “career” most probably started during 2010-2011 when I wrote an internal institutional blog or communique on matters pertaining to open distance learning (ODL). … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, distance education, higher education, open distance learning, Rainer Maria Rilke
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Hashima, Foucault and the state of higher education
As 2012 winds to a close, many beg for a reprieve in the daily onslaught of changes, and reports of changes facing higher and distance education. Looking back at the end of 2011 and the start of 2012, nothing could … Continue reading
Posted in Change.mooc.ca
Tagged Audrey Watters, distance education, e-learning, Foucault, Hashima, higher education, open distance learning
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The Tower of Babel: MOOCs, Online Learning, and Language…
Machine translation may soon, under certain conditions, make concerns about the role of language in online learning and MOOCs obsolete (e.g., Google’s ‘Babel fish’ heralds future of translation). Though this will solve the issue of translation, it will still not … Continue reading
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