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....
Connectivism
This is the first of two theories that are specific to online learning. Connectivism theorises self-directed, network-organised learning (Harasim and...