Who we are
Michael Gallagher and James Lamb contributed as Research Associates for this project. Since meeting as students on the MSc in E-Learning, we have collaborated on a number of projects concerned with space, geography and what it means to be a distance learner. We have been the first points of contact for participants in this project, carried out the three stages of data collection and contributed towards writing up and presenting our work with the rest of the team.
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Michael Gallagher, Research Associate
[email protected] I graduated from the MSc in E-Learning program just in July 2011. I was based in Princeton, New Jersey, in the USA for most of my studies at Edinburgh, but was traveling quite a bit for work during that time. I engaged with the course everywhere I could, from airports to trains to hotels, but more often than not from the comforts of my sofa. The short film below captures what it means for me to be at the University of Edinburgh, despite never having been there (geographically) until the graduation itself. |
James Lamb, Research Associate
[email protected] I'm a part-time participant on the MSc in Digital Education. Within my dissertation I am investigating the attitudes and experiences of online tutors towards multimodal assessment in the digital classroom. I am also a guest tutor on the Online Assessment course on the programme and have previously contributed to projects exploring the experience of distance education students at The University of Edinburgh. For my icebreaker film I've gathered some sounds and images that signify the concepts of presence, participation and place as a student on the Digital Education course. Features samples of Electricity by The Avalanches (2001) and Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970).
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Sian Bayne, Senior Lecturer, project PI
[email protected] I'm programme director of the MSc in E-learning alongside Hamish Macleod, and research and write on how being online changes and challenges the project of education. 'Nomadic' is the word I would choose to describe those of us who work on the programme, and those who study on it, and I'm looking forward to getting some data on this mobility and its meanings as part of this project. |
Hamish Macleod, Senior Lecturer
[email protected] I am Co-Director of the MSc in E-learning. My background is in psychology, and I have a longstanding interest in the applications of computer-mediated communications in teaching and learning, and in the educational significance of games and play. |
Clara O'Shea, Associate Lecturer
[email protected] I teach and research on the MSc in E-Learning around ideas of course design, assessment and feedback, space and place. I’m also doing a PhD looking at the construction of mental disorder in online discourse . I’ve been both an online, distance learner and a campus-based learner. As a tutor and as a PhD student, I’m finding that the purpose of my activity (i.e. ‘work’ or ‘study’) determines more where I feel I am, than physical or digital location. I’m looking forward to finding out what others think it means to be ‘at’ the University of Edinburgh. |
Jen Ross, Associate Lecturer
[email protected] I teach and research in the area of e-learning, with a particular focus on reflective practices, digital futures, digital cultures and online identity. I'm the technologies co-ordinator for the MSc in E-learning programme, and a member of the Digital Cultures and Education research group. My research web site is at http://jenrossity.net/ |