In topic two, I had a chance to learn about sharing and openness, and think about the pros and cons of openness in teaching and learning. In a sense, like the visitor and residence continuum in the digital world, there is a continuum of sharing and openness. I might be very open at times, as […]

During this week’s ONL scenario, we were given the time to think about student engagement in the online classroom. I used to think somewhat naively that engaging a student online could not be all that different than engaging a student in the classroom. This way of thinking, I realized quickly, is part of the problem. … Continue reading “Student Engagement in Online Classrooms”

During this week’s ONL scenario, we were given the time to think about student engagement in the online classroom. I used to think somewhat naively that engaging a student online could not be all that different than engaging a student in the classroom. This way of thinking, I realized quickly, is part of the problem. … Continue reading “Student Engagement in Online Classrooms”

Open networked learning course had kicked off, and it has already introduced me to new concepts like native digitals and immigrant digitals as two distinct groups within digital literacy. But wait! Like any other concept we use in social sciences, digital literacy, which is often defined as “those capabilities which fit an individual for living, […]

I went to Cameroon to develop international relationships with potential local collaborators. I visited the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the Congo Basin Institute (CBI, affiliated to UCLA in USA), which are two well-implanted Institutes in the Yaoundé region. And I visited the University of Yaounde 1, department of animal biology, to give … Continue reading Teaching Symbiosis in Yaoundé, Cameroon

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I received my Ph.D. degree in Political Science at the Department of Government, London School of Economics in January 2017. My Ph.D. dissertation, “Collective memory and competition over identity in a conflict zone: the case of Dersim”, explores the causes and mechanisms of ongoing competition over the nature of national identity through a case study of Dersim […]