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Tag Archives: higher education
CoMOOCs for Transformation: A Journey in Collaborative Teacher Professional Development
Over the past two years, I have been working on a project with colleagues at University College London (UCL), where we have been blogging at CoMOOCs for Transformative Professional Development. In the process I have neglected my own blog, and … Continue reading
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Tagged co-design, CoMOOCs, higher education, Lebanon, MOOCs, refugees, Research, Thai-Myanmar border, UCL
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Creating accountable spaces in online higher education
A while back, Chrissi Neranzti invited me to speak at a Knowledge Equity Network (KEN) webinar on 21st February on the topic of “creating accountable spaces for equitable participation”. KEN is a wonderful initiative co-founded by the Universities of Leeds … Continue reading
Overcoming barriers to online engagement
On 5 December, I gave a presentationon entitled Overcoming Barriers to Online Engagement through Care-ful Learning Design and Delivery at the annual EADTU webinar series. Here I am sharing my slides and the webinar recording. My presentation starts around 31 … Continue reading
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Tagged higher education, My PhD, online engagement
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Findings from my research on refugees’ engagement in online HE: some implications for open education
On a warm July’s day in 2019, I carried out the first interview for my PhD thesis on refugees and online higher education (HE) from the library at Lancaster University. The interview was with a young man (referred to by … Continue reading
Student engagement among displaced learners in online higher education: an emerging capabilitarian model
In this post, I would like to share the presentation that I gave at the EADTU’s Innovating Higher Education 2022 (I-HE2022) Conference in Athens on 19 October 2022. The talk fell under the conference theme, “Access to Online, Open and … Continue reading
Online engagement in the HE literature: Part 4 – models and frameworks
In this post, I discuss three student engagement models/ frameworks that build on the discussions in the literature that I outlined in my previous posts in this series. Kahu and Nelson’s psychosocial model Kahu’s (2013) “conceptual framework of engagement, antecedents … Continue reading
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Tagged higher education, My PhD, online engagement, theoretical frameworks
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Online engagement in the HE literature: Part 2 – chaos, controversy and critique
There is a growing body of critique around mainstream concepts of student engagement, as highlighted by the special edition on this topic edited by MacFarlane and Tomlinson (2017a). In this post, I outline some of the prominent critiques and debates. … Continue reading
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The capability approach Part 12: mapping journeys towards valued “beings and doings”
In this blog post, the final one in my series on the capability approach in higher education, I will share a flowchart that I have developed to map the online engagement of my research participants through their Master’s journeys. A brief … Continue reading
The capability approach: Part 11 – equity from the middle in higher education
This is the 11th and penultimate blog post in my series on the capability approach, and it focuses on the literature that addresses “equity from the middle” (Unterhalter, 2012) in higher education. In my reading of Unterhalter’s equity framework. (See … Continue reading
If your students are not turning on their webcams, try looking elsewhere for engagement
Lately I have been running online workshops with academics on the topic of “online learning engagement and student freedoms/ unfreedoms”. In these sessions, a frequently-asked question is: “How do we know if our students are engaging if they don’t turn … Continue reading
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