Tag: higher ed
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the parting glass
Tomorrow morning, early, I return to Canada. My Bonnie flies over the ocean, lol. Sabbatical, fin. This Belonging and Place project has felt like a pipe dream, even as it unfolded. Who gets to spend weeks crossing the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, spring and fall both? For work? And be welcomed in, repeatedly… wined,…
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findings 3b: how to do digital belonging in an era of weaponization
This project emerged happenstance from the confluence of a lucky trip to Scotland and my own disillusionment. As I’ve gone on about in previous posts, in 2023, I was worn thin on AI hype, grieving the capture and enclosure of my field by forces far removed from the participatory educational ideals I’d originally valued in…
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findings 3a: how we talk about digital practices in education
The question of what it means to be a person who works in digital education has been one I’ve struggled with, increasingly, over the past decade. I stumbled into this field in the ’90s, when the university where I was doing my M.Ed transitioned their Open Learning office and their distance programs from teleconference and…
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findings, part the first: the sociomaterial intersections of belonging
The photo memories feature on Facebook – and yes, I should ditch Meta…and no, I haven’t yet – reminded me this past weekend that it’s been two years since I first landed at the University of Highlands and Islands, for #OER23. My first time seeing much of Inverness in daylight. Everything was April sunshine and…
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beyond here there be dragons
I haven’t been able to write since US election day. I live in Canada…admittedly, a four-minute drive from the tunnel to Detroit, but still. I am writing about a university in Scotland. These are all distinct nation-state compartments, each with its own colour on the map. But still. Academic confession: I feel shame about my…