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Category Archives: PhD
The story of a loser
I was contacted this week by a professor in my old Philosophy department (where I spent many happy years as a PhD student and graduate teaching assistant), wanting to know how I made the move from philosophy into learning and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Jigsaw Technique, Learning, PhD, Philosophy, Teaching, University
Tagged elitism, learning and teaching, SoTL
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Blog or die?
“Thesis word cloud” flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license I used to write here regularly, and at some point I stopped. Maybe it was the pandemic, maybe it was the pressure of writing up my … Continue reading
Posted in DS106, PhD, Writing
Tagged blog, ds106, DS106RadioSummerCamp, reflection, write
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So long, and thanks for all the TAGS
For almost ten years now, whenever I’ve been involved in an activity that involves Twitter conversations I’ve headed over to TAGS and set up a copy to collate tweets and produce visualisations like the one above. So earlier this month, … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, DailyCreate, DS106, Learning, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD
Tagged clmooc, ds106, SNA, Social Network Analysis, TAGS
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Enter The N+? Universe
The prompt for the Daily Create today is to use the N+ generator to generate some text. I took the abstract from my PhD thesis: This thesis is my reflection about my experiences of researching a participatory culture. It began … Continue reading
Autoethnography
I recently attended a webinar [Meet & Eat] Autoethnography in Online Doctoral Education which I very much enjoyed. One of the presenters asked a question of the audience that got me thinking, and I am really thinking out loud as … Continue reading
Researcher Visibility
In my last post I shared a quote from Joanne McNeil introducing the idea of researcher as lurker. Since then I have been thinking at some reasons for researchers to show or hide themselves from their participants, and the related … Continue reading
Researchers as lurkers
An interesting paragraph in a book I am reading at the moment (Lurking, by Joanne McNeil). We are used to talking about learners as lurkers, but here’s another perspective. What images do we invoke when we think about the researcher … Continue reading
Spring at last
Two photos, taken a week apart, both of the same branch. Last week it was cold in the garden – bright, but not warm enough to sit and enjoy it. Today was a beautiful day – warm enough to sit … Continue reading
Posted in Flowers, PhD, Photos, Scotland
Tagged #clmooc, #SilentSunday, Apple Blossom, spring
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The emergence of participatory learning: authenticity, serendipity and creative playfulness
Today I got the final confirmation that I have been awarded my PhD in Education, with the title The emergence of participatory learning: authenticity, serendipity and creative playfulness. The thesis is now uploaded to my Uni library repository, and anyone … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, D&G, DS106, MOOC, Online learning, Peer interaction, PhD, Remix, Researcher Journal, Writing
Tagged #clmooc, Bricolage, participatory culture, PhD, serendipity
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Trust me, I’m a doctor
On Monday I passed my PhD viva. This thesis has been a long time cooking – I began on Jan 7th 2013, took a year out due to ill health, had two changes of thesis title and lost three supervisors … Continue reading
