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Tag Archives: education
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
Book review: The Internet is not the answer (Andrew Keen, 2015)
There are too many examples to mention where the Internet and access to the Internet is lauded (sold?) as the answer. Recent examples include Facebook’s scheme to provide access to some services in India, of course through Facebook as platform. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Keen, e-learning, education, Internet, technology
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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
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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Modernity and its outcasts – the role of higher education
Right now there are about 42 million displaced people in the world. One in every 170 persons in the world has been uprooted by war. … About one third of them are officially recognized refugees because they have crossed an … Continue reading
Posted in Change.mooc.ca
Tagged education, graduate attributes, higher education, homo sacer, refugees, Zygmunt Bauman
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Alliances of hope: breaking cycles of poverty and despair
Amidst increasing concerns that higher education does not seem to make a dent in unemployment rates; many stakeholders (including students) ask various questions not only with regard to the purpose of higher education, but also about its curricula, assessment strategies, … Continue reading
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Tagged e-learning, education, Henry Giroux, higher education, neoliberalism, open distance learning, unemployment, Zygmunt Bauman
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In the antechamber of hope: Higher and distance education and (un)employment (#CFHE12)
There are different reasons why people hope. Many people believe that there is a reason why things happen, or that things will work out fine. This group most probably overlaps with another group who believes that the future will be … Continue reading
Fifty shades of grey in higher and distance education (#oped12)
Not a day goes past without someone, somewhere claiming a new form of higher and distance education whether it is a new type of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), a Little Open Online Course (LOOC) or various degrees of for-profit … Continue reading
Posted in Oped12
Tagged accreditation, distance education, e-learning, education, higher education, LOOC, mobile learning, MOOC, online courseware, open distance learning, Udacity
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The myth of the ‘average learner’ in distance education (#OMDE)
What does the ‘average learner’ look like in distance education? Considering that distance education has always been known for providing access to students who would have been excluded from higher education opportunities – the demographic profiles, competencies, educational and life-history … Continue reading
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