Next monday (Feb 20th) we begin the TechChange four week certificate course on New Technologies for Educational Practice. I’m excited to announce that rockstar educator Daryn Cambridge, Director for Knowledge & Digital Strategies at the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict adjunct professor at American University will be co-facilitating with me.
We’ve got an amazing group of educators, administrators, practitioners lined up from …
This past week, Raymond Besiga, my co-fellow on the Global Health Corps fellowship, and I met with Dr. Paul Muyinda, a leading mLearning practitioner in sub-Saharan Africa.
In 2008 Makerere University, started a mobile broadcast system of one way communication to students regarding administrative and academic support information. This was the first step to an innovative mLearning project. Since 2011, the distance learning team has …
Makerere University is one of the oldest and most well reputed universities in East Africa. As a leading institution in the field, Makerere, or Mak (pronounced Muuk) as it’s affectionately called, has had a prolific distance learning program since the early 1990s. Much of this program followed the historical route of paper based correspondence learning until the early 2000’s.
Tomorrow I’ll be giving a talk at George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution on how emerging technology and crowdsourcing can enhance academic research in conflict-affected settings. The TechChange team will be there for the talk, and I’ll be live tweeting the event all day (#confresearch).
Along with my talk, we’ll also be hearing from my George Mason colleagues as they …
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