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...
Constructivism and ICTs
Whereas behaviourism emphasises stimulus-response, programmed learning sequences, purposefully limited cognitive input and output, and technologies that function according to the...
Behaviourism and ICTs
Pavlovian classical conditioning concerns the matching of stimulus to involuntary effects. After experiencing a routine of meals heralded by the...