Hodkinson-Williams and Trotter (2018) utilized Fraser’s (2005) social justice framework to evaluate the impact of open educational resources (OER) and open educational practices (OER) in providing affordable access to culturally relevant education to all. Fraser perceives social justice as “parity of participation” (2005, p. 73), as both an outcome where “all the relevant social […]

Thus far, in this course, I’ve learnt many new theories and approaches, such as instrumentalism, essentialism, post-humanism, transhumanism and constructivism, among others. More importantly, I’ve learnt to question rationales. I started this block with a post on my ideal learning space. After completing this block’s core readings, and reflecting on my reading from the previous […]

Bayne, Gallagher and Lamb (2014) suggest that “the material campus continues to be a symbolically and materially significant mooring” for students (p. 581). In my previous post, I said that I do not consider myself to be a student at University of Edinburgh. I thought I’d have a little fun with this post as I […]

  Note to Huw: I’m going to use APA instead of Harvard for my citations and reference list. I hope you are okay with that. After nearly 2 decades of using APA, I find it cumbersome to learn a new format. It really slows me down and raises my anxiety. My space for IDEL has […]

The classroom is the bus. As mentioned in my previous post on my ideal learning space, the classroom needs to be comfortable, flexible and individualised. The first thing any participant of a bus tour judges is the conditions of the bus. The seats should be comfortable. A participant should be able to adjust his or […]

I am a blessed human being. I am at a point in my life where I have an office, which I spend very little time in thanks to the ongoing Covid pandemic, and my own study. Both my office and study are air-conditioned and have large tables and ergonomic chairs. Yet, I spend most of […]

My goal is engage Biesta in a philosophical discussion (because his arguments are largely philosophical). Also, I would like to hone my skills in this form of writing. I’ve noticed that most of the compulsory readings are very philosophical and I’ve not done much of such writing. In essence, my argument is that there can […]

I’m returning to Week 4’s topic because of a conversation I had at work. Background In a communication course, we tasked our students to each share a meme and explain the context behind their choice. A colleague of mine got angry because a student of hers shared what she deemed to be an extremely offensive […]

My idea is to create a Singlish (Colloquial Singaporean English) bot that tweets Singlish expressions. An example of a tweet from the bot would be: “Wah! Raining again today lah!. No money so must still take bus to campus loh!” This bot could be used for a course in linguistics, literature or even cultural studies. […]

(Annotated Bibliography) for Selwyn (2011) Will Technology Displace the Teacher?, and to an extent, Bayne (2015) Teacherbot: interventions in automated learning.   Immediately after reading this chapter, I took a look at my student feedback scores over the last 3 years. Not out of panic… okay partly… but mainly out of curiosity. I wanted to […]