Today I graduated from the University of Cape Town with my masters degree in philosophy, with a specialization in the use of information and communication technologies in education. My masters was awarded with distinction as I received a significantly high overall grade from my coursework and dissertation. It’s a great accomplishment and reflects closure on […]
I submitted my masters thesis on September 2, 2011. The thesis titled ‘Student perceptions of the reuse of digital educational materials: A case study of the social outreach group SHAWCO’, explores the potential for the open education movement to assist social outreach programmes. Up until now the open education movement has seen strong growth in […]
I am currently in the process of completing my masters dissertation. It’s a large document which I have spent the last year or so writing and I am pretty happy with how it has all turned out. I’ll be sharing more about the contents and findings of the thesis in the next little while. As […]
This work was inspired by the “Anatomy of the Osama Tweet“, in which the news of Osama Bin Laden’s death spreads just before it was officially announced by U.S. President Obama. Naturally the original speculative tweet spread virally through Twitter. My colleague Andrew Deacon and I have undertaken a similar analysis of information flows during […]