Blockchain in HE: Paradigm Challenges (2)
The Open University (2017) argues that student records are still paper-based. There are hundreds of thousands of known fraudulent credentials...
Blockchain in HE: Paradigm Challenges (1)
Blockchain technology is applicable to new methods of HE, such as the MOOC. Since MOOC participation requires no physical interaction...
Blockchain in HE: Adapt and Adopt, or Perish (2)
Sieber (2017) discusses the future of universities. Western universities were born from need, trade routes, and energetic collectives. A millennia...
Blockchain in HE: Adapt and Adopt, or Perish (1)
Blockchain’s potential for social and economic disruption is rooted in its distributed ledger capability. The ledger is a foundational technology...
MOOCs
In 1999, the UK Prime Minister Tony Blair declared that 50% of young British people would be receiving HE by...
Disruption, and Disruption in HE
Through the other articles in this series on ICTs (information communication technologies) in Higher Education, I have argued that digital...
ICTs, Global Citizenship, and Education for Sustainable Development
Peterson and Warwick (2015) argue that global technologies represent a major form (and, by implication, force) of globalisation, so are...
Blended Learning
According to Ryan and Tilbury (2013), pedagogic flexibility is tied to digital education; academia is under pressure to broaden learning...
ICTs in Higher Education Today (2018-2020)
In 2018 (when the thesis from which this content derives was written), the embeddedness of ICTs in HE was extensive....