• publishing
• technology

I’m following up again on my continuing academic assertion that situated digitally mediated creativity,… / Read More

• teaching

People are talking a lot on social media about their lives, more than ever. Indiscretions are made, but the light gets in when things get broken. Today I saw some posts on a teaching group in FB about losing hope, about not being able to deal with… / Read More

• phd

I have forty days left. It is August 19th, 2020, and September has thirty days in it, so forty days. My ideal end day is September 30th. This allows ten working days to get printing done and deliver documents to the Doctoral school admin office. So,… / Read More

• phd

I’m jotting down a few reflections on how you choose a topic for your doctorate. I think for many of us it isn’t as simple as ‘something I’m really interested in’, or ‘what I’m good at’, or ‘what I’d like to specialise in’. Care must be taken in your… / Read More

• teaching

This post is about some of the issues you might encounter when teaching online from home, especially without much time to prepare for this transition. We are in unprecedented (pandemic) times, and us who teach (school, informal, non formal, tertiary)… / Read More

• phd

This is a difficult stage, everyone says so. I’m deep into chapter five, where I outline in detailed terms how I went about analysis of data. In phenomenography this is a crucial aspect of the reliability of the findings. We don’t pursue ideas about… / Read More

• research
• phd

This post discusses an idea I’m working on as part of further implications arising from the PhD. The idea is the potential to develop learner experience variables data values that could be used to help machines see more complex kinds of learning experience… / Read More

• phd
• research

This post briefly describes my experience of using cases and classifications in NVivo, to help form categories of data. In my research I use phenomenography methods, but any qualitative analysis would benefit from this. I’m only a beginner, so probably… / Read More

• phd
• research

As part of qualitative research many of us end up with lots… / Read More

• digital-skills
• teaching

Teaching digital literacy ‘skills’ and competences is about, well, a lot. How we approach teaching digital literacy also involves media literacy and information literacy. I think another major part of teaching digital literacy is modelling good practice… / Read More