Ethnographic study of experiences online
I came across this quote in Veletsianos Open practices and identity: Evidence from researchers and educators’ social media participation which strikes me as a useful approach to auto-ethnographic...
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Analysing TAGS datasets in to Tableau
This post on analysing a TAGs dataset using Tableau is a continuation of earlier posts on social media analytics here and here. It’s worth noting that Tableau Public cannot be used here as it is...
View ArticleDoing socio-material research
I am currently developing a paper on innovative research methods that discusses the operationalisation of socio-material assemblage theory. This is the summary of the paper so far: This paper presents...
View ArticleThe gatherings of a ‘smart’ university
Ben Williamson has written a great post here on the concept and realities of a smart, quantified and data driven university. The post outlines the increasingly overt positioning of universities as...
View ArticleUnbundling Higher Education
Returning to the topic of unbundling universities, this sketchnote is based on some of my notes from the Unbundling Higher Education Coursera course that I discussed here. The analytic approaches...
View ArticleResilience and higher education
Weller’s notion of resilience is proposed as an alternative perspective on change in education systems and institutions that provides a generative alternative to the ‘education is broken’ narrative....
View ArticleResearching Digital Education: the socio-material and interdisciplinary...
This is my presentation on innovative approaches to researching informal digital learning for the Scottish Education Research Association conference in Edinburgh in November 2019. This paper presents...
View ArticleResilience & pedagogy
View this post on Instagram Working on ideas on institutional resilience and pedagogical health (Kinchin & Winstone (Ed’s) 2018). A post shared by Pete Evans (@pevans27) on Feb 13, 2020 at 1:24am...
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Notes for a Friday [5]
Its been a busy week with the start of the new academic year being in somewhat challenging circumstances. However, my teaching is all online and I’m ready to start teaching next week. It has also been...
View ArticleDigital learner experiences and the future of higher education – notes for a...
This report from JISC is of FE college students’ experiences of digital education. The survey was conducted between October 2019 and May 2020 so covers the emergency shift to remote teaching. About...
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